Disco'd

[Goat1]

Can someone tell me what causes a disco to happen?
I've been disco'd before in the MA and never thought much about it, just part of the game.
But last night a disco'd during a very enjoyable FSO. So are discos caused mostly on my end or
on the Aces High side?

Thanks;
Goat

[Lusche]

Many times, if not most of the time they are cause by any of the dozends of instances the packets are passing through between your computer and the AH server.

[Skuzzy]

Discos are almost always due to something interfering with the successful reception of packets over the Internet.  The causes for that are very numerous.

The very nature of a disco is the game not getting updates, or not being able to send updates. 

Anti-xxxx software probably runs a close second as causing discos.

You can test your own connection using Ping Plotter (www.pingplotter.com).  They have a free version of their utility at the bottom of their downloads page.  Use 206.16.60.38 for the IP address to run a ping plot to.

[Goat1]

Thanks for the info. 

Goat