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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: whiteman on January 24, 2008, 03:11:13 AM
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4 times in 30 mins, anyone else having problems lately? :confused: Never have had connection problem since i started playing nov06. It's getting very fustrating.
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I too have been plagued with disco issues in the last 4 months.
It varies on the day, today i did not disco once, others I'm lucky to stay ini the arena for a few minutes. The good days are much rarer than the bad ones for sure.
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December was worst for me 42 discos, this months not so bad starting to know when to log now as i get really bad lag on the text buffer.
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A lot of my squaddies have been having issues with lag...
I only have a problem when im around a lot of planes...
My main problem is FR....Mine drops like paris hilton's panties!!
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I had major FR issues I tried RAM, new Video card, new, bigger HDD. I didn't see any improvement until I upgraded my processor to match. It seems as the game evolves the demand on the processor increases dramatically.
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Recently I have gotten the msg "Lost UDP Switch TCP". Now on the rere occasion in the past when I got this msg I would disco out within a minute. Now I just warp a little then back to normal and play on like nothing happened. Not complaining just saying this just started this tour, and it happens EVERYTIME I play now.
Edit: Text buffer usually locks up just before this happens.
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Ping has changed from 155
(my usual value from germany)
to 217 lately
(at least the last 3 weeks)
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Originally posted by acfireguy26
Recently I have gotten the msg "Lost UDP Switch TCP". .
i never get a warning at all:cry
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me either. First thing I notice is text lag, then *poof* "Host connection lost"
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Instead of just complaining about discos, there are things you can do, like trouble shoot it :)
Download a program called pingplotter, it's free. Install it. Check out the sticky at the top of the tech support page and get the IP addresses for the servers. Type tat into the pingplotter and let it run for about 15 mins, or just after your disco.
Either take a screen shot of the page, or save the text version and either post it here, or send it to skuzzy
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Been there done that, the problem for me lies on the return path, and unfortunately out of Skuzzy's realm. I did also have issues closer to home, but since I've taken it up with my ISP I've seen some improvement on that front though I am still seeing loss stateside.
Until ISPs in the USA stop trying to shape their traffic to cut costs we are not likely to see any improvement. Speaking of which, does anyone know how the suit against Comcast(?) is going re the shaping of UDP traffic is coming along?
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Originally posted by SD67
Been there done that, the problem for me lies on the return path, and unfortunately out of Skuzzy's realm. I did also have issues closer to home, but since I've taken it up with my ISP I've seen some improvement on that front though I am still seeing loss stateside.
Until ISPs in the USA stop trying to shape their traffic to cut costs we are not likely to see any improvement. Speaking of which, does anyone know how the suit against Comcast(?) is going re the shaping of UDP traffic is coming along?
So knowing the cause of your discos is out of your hands, as well as being out of HTC's hands you still come here and stir the pot? Maybe you should have posted "I have been been getting discos too, mine seem to be my ISP, and they have improved things, to not by much, once I complained to them" At least this way your post might have helped someone else look at their ISP, or pingplot.
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I wasn't intending on stirring any pots :)
I didn't think this was a pot stirring thread, I was just offering support to a fellow gamer who might have thought the issue was related to his system :) I'm sure if he was beginning to really get frustrated he would have posted in the tech support forum as I did and also emailed Skuzzy with his plot results :)
I merely interpreted the post as a someone looking for a little bit of "it's not just you mate, some of us are getting it too"
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Originally posted by EagleEyes
A lot of my squaddies have been having issues with lag...
What did I do? :cry :cry :cry :cry :cry :cry
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Originally posted by whiteman
4 times in 30 mins, anyone else having problems lately? :confused: Never have had connection problem since i started playing nov06. It's getting very fustrating.
Yup. 10 minutes into first sortie on Tuesday. Went to DA instead.
Just remember. Its not the server. Its your intarwebzorz.
More than one squadie is considering leaving because the game has become unplayable in some cases.
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I've been dealing with lots of discos too. Mine can be attributed to Comcast taking over. Roadrunner is way better than comcast. Comcast advertises being faster than Roadrunner but it's all lies. Their internet side is very weak.
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Originally posted by Shuffler
I've been dealing with lots of discos too. Mine can be attributed to Comcast taking over. Roadrunner is way better than comcast. Comcast advertises being faster than Roadrunner but it's all lies. Their internet side is very weak.
I have Comcast at home and the connection is great. I almost never disco, but do have warp issues at times but I think that is just my crappy laptop's fault.
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I too have pingplotted got onto ISP but only got a slight improvement.
I have just been checking someones stats that was warping really bad, and i keep having to watch the film cause its that funny how he flies all over the place.
he has 332 discos:eek:
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Originally posted by The Fugitive
Instead of just complaining about discos, there are things you can do, like trouble shoot it :)
Download a program called pingplotter, it's free. Install it. Check out the sticky at the top of the tech support page and get the IP addresses for the servers. Type tat into the pingplotter and let it run for about 15 mins, or just after your disco.
Either take a screen shot of the page, or save the text version and either post it here, or send it to skuzzy
Believe me I'm trying, I'm a noob when it comes to this stuff. This the first PC game I've played and been having a great and error/lag free time till recent. I'll try that out.
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Originally posted by C(Sea)Bass
I have Comcast at home and the connection is great. I almost never disco, but do have warp issues at times but I think that is just my crappy laptop's fault.
Possibly - but Comcast has been getting unfavorable press over some questionable "traffic management policies", and not everyone who uses them seems to share your trouble-free experience - or share your willingness to assume it's their own equipment until proven otherwise.
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Originally posted by lagger86
What did I do? :cry :cry :cry :cry :cry :cry
[SIZE=20]LMFAO[/SIZE]
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I get discoed every time I take up a 262.....and lose the perkies.
I don't get it.
68ROX
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About six months ago i had router issues.
I had to reconfigure my router and seems like it solved the trouble.
so far, no more witch to udp from tcp......
good luck
froger >S<
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I knew about Comcast dropping P2P torrents by sending fake reset packets, but I don't actually know anything about P2P. Does that use UDP? Does that mean AH would be affected by such shaping (I guess zero is a shape)?
I too have noticed some strangeness lately. Pingplotter won't show any problems, but AH will sometimes become unresponsive, taking many seconds, for example, to change fields or bring up status screens. This sometimes leads to a disco.
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most p2p clients use udp, so if an isp is using some tech to disrupt udp traffic to discourage the use of p2p then it will have a follow on effect for any gaming over udp as well.