Losing UDP and switching to TCP more than usual

[CountD90]

I had a linksys WRT110 router that would kick me off the internet every time someone connected wireless to it, so i got rid of it. I replaced it with a NetGear WPN824v3 just last week. I no longer get booted whenever someone in my house connects to it, but I have been getting a lot more frequent switching to TCP messages or just losing UDP in general than before. Are there any settings I can change or ports that I should open on the router to prevent this? If there is anything I should post let me know. 

[W7LPNRICK]

Download Ping Plotter, it's free. As soon as you lose your connection, run it. It will ttell you who is dropping packets. If it is consistently the same relay site, complain to your carrier. Usually, just pinging them lets them know you are watching.  P.S. If you connection is wireless, they are far more prone to packet loss. JMO

[Jayhawk]

I know I was loosing packets off my wireless router, a hard line fixed the problem.  I'm sure my walls were filled with little packets of planes and bullets!

[CountD90]

No I am hard lined to my router, I refuse to use wifi as I am very big on online gaming.

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Losing UDP, switch to TCP
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2009, 02:41:52 PM »
   
Losing UDP, switch to TCP

The above game message is not one you want to see.  Basically it means the game has detected packet loss on the Internet connection.  Packet loss can happen at any hop between you and the servers.  If the packet loss is severe enough, you will be disconnected from the sever.

It matters nt what type of Internet connection you have.  You can have the bestest, fastest, more whizbang connection on the planet, and you are still at the mercy of every router between you and any destination.  So, what do you do?

The best thing to do, if this happens, is to run Ping Plotter for a few minutes after the disco.  In the second column (PL%) of the output packet loss will be expressed as a percentage.  Each line in the Ping Plotter output represents a hop/router your data packets have to cross to get to the server.

One thing to note, is if the packet loss shows up at the last or second to the last hop, then the packet loss is occurring on the return trip to your computer.  The path from your computer to the servers, is different than the path from the servers back to your computer.  You cannot see the path back to your computer in Ping Plotter.  We (HTC) have to run a trace back to your computer in order to see if we can isolate where the packet loss might be occurring.

In all cases, if you cannot read the Ping Plotter data, feel free to export the data as a text file and email that file to support@hitechcreations.com.
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