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Title: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: CAP1 on August 27, 2008, 09:41:57 PM
anyone else having this tonight? it's 10:41 eastern, and the longest i lasted was my first time in. that was almost 10 minutes. not i get the lost udp mesage almost immediatly.

dunno what to do/.
?
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: 007Rusty on August 27, 2008, 09:46:20 PM
yup alot of us  :furious
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: BaldEagl on August 27, 2008, 10:30:10 PM
I just logged out because my computer was getting all choppy, like it was running under 10 FPS.  It's brand new and always runs at my monitor refresh rate of 60.
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: SkiMan on August 27, 2008, 11:28:07 PM
Same here...several of us got the boot at the same time, and several more I saw on 200 saying that they lost udp and/or were being dico'd.
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: CAP1 on August 28, 2008, 12:12:11 AM
ok..i thought i was having trouble with my puter. i tried LW, MW, and EW.....all the same result. i did however, do a system restore, and all seemed to work better
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: zuii on August 28, 2008, 11:14:02 AM
cant really play this way,,, to many discos...i feel like donna summer! :)
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: zuii on August 29, 2008, 07:51:58 AM
Any ideas what i might do to fix discos?   for months i had no problems. Last 4 days i get discoed
so much it kinda makin it hard to play. help? ideas?

<S>

zuii
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: crazierthanu on August 29, 2008, 09:13:30 AM
<------------ Can not even get to arena selection  :cry
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: JunkyII on August 29, 2008, 12:36:55 PM
Skuzzy fell asleep again :)

 :saluteall HTC workers
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: whiteman on August 29, 2008, 01:29:52 PM
ever since the host update thing 2 weeks ago my frame rates have gone from 59 to crap and i'm gettung this udp to tcp more often. hell one night every time i tried to up a wirble i'd get the white screen.
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: PFactorDave on August 30, 2008, 01:26:31 AM
I was discoed more times tonight then I can remember in the last tour.

Something isn't quite kosher in server land.
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: 100Coogn on August 30, 2008, 01:45:52 AM
I see "Host Lost UDP" more than anything lately...wtf.
It can't just be my crappy dial-up could it? :huh
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: zuii on August 31, 2008, 10:30:58 AM
And the beat goes on and on! Discos!

arg

zuii
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: Max on August 31, 2008, 11:47:21 AM
Have you sent HTC a ping plot? Spoke with your ISP? Any connection issues other than AH? Powered down your modem? Checked for background programs running?
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: CAP1 on August 31, 2008, 11:55:10 PM
Have you sent HTC a ping plot? Spoke with your ISP? Any connection issues other than AH? Powered down your modem? Checked for background programs running?

the only thing i didn't do, was to email htc. getting in was the only connection problem i had though.

the night i had the problems, i had heard that many others did too.
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: MachNum on September 02, 2008, 01:57:30 PM
Speaking of this, is there anyway to get back to UDP short of restarting? Usually the switch is the result of a short term disruption for me, but I can't tell if it reverts to UDP after switching to TCP for some reason. I seem to do ok on TCP, but I know it's not as speedy as UDP.
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: Cthulhu on September 02, 2008, 01:59:33 PM
Speaking of this, is there anyway to get back to UDP short of restarting? Usually the switch is the result of a short term disruption for me, but I can't tell if it reverts to UDP after switching to TCP for some reason. I seem to do ok on TCP, but I know it's not as speedy as UDP.

Are you behind a router?
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: MachNum on September 02, 2008, 03:41:30 PM
Are you behind a router?
Certainly. Isn't everyone?
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: Cthulhu on September 02, 2008, 03:47:39 PM
Certainly. Isn't everyone?

I would hope so. You are forwarding ports 2000-5000 right?
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: llama on September 03, 2008, 01:07:24 PM
I would hope so. You are forwarding ports 2000-5000 right?

It flat out isn't necessary. Disable the port forwarding in your router and plan AH, and you'll see that it all runs fine.

-Llama
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: Cthulhu on September 03, 2008, 05:34:36 PM
It flat out isn't necessary. Disable the port forwarding in your router and plan AH, and you'll see that it all runs fine.

-Llama
How so Llama? I used to get UDP errors constantly till I started forwarding.
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: flatiron1 on September 04, 2008, 09:56:47 PM
way too many discos lately, kinda taking the fun out.
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: llama on September 05, 2008, 05:12:41 PM
How so Llama? I used to get UDP errors constantly till I started forwarding.

I have on two separate occasions had about 90 computers all playing either AH or WB through a $50 linksys wired router, and the connection was fine for all without designating any special port forwarding for anyone. I sometimes have 4 or 5 PCs going through a WRT54GS all playing AH without port forwarding enabled and the connection is fine for them all too.

I'd be guessing that your UDP errors were a result of various co-incidental netstorms instead of a lack of port forwarding at your router.

-Llama

Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: CAP1 on September 05, 2008, 05:33:57 PM
I have on two separate occasions had about 90 computers all playing either AH or WB through a $50 linksys wired router, and the connection was fine for all without designating any special port forwarding for anyone. I sometimes have 4 or 5 PCs going through a WRT54GS all playing AH without port forwarding enabled and the connection is fine for them all too.

I'd be guessing that your UDP errors were a result of various co-incidental netstorms instead of a lack of port forwarding at your router.

-Llama



i never even knew about this port fowarding thing. when i first hooked up my linksys router, i just had to get connected to the net, and everything else has been fine
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: llama on September 06, 2008, 12:43:51 PM
i never even knew about this port fowarding thing. when i first hooked up my linksys router, i just had to get connected to the net, and everything else has been fine


That's what I'm saying.

There are probably 2000 or 3000 players who connect to the AH servers each month. I'd guess 75% (at least) have routers, and only about 5% of those people even know anything about port forwarding. That's a few thousand players connecting through routers who aren't explicitly opening and forwarding ports to play AH.

-Llama
Title: Re: Lost UDP switching to TCP
Post by: MachNum on September 08, 2008, 03:20:11 PM
Yeah, I'm one of them. There is no explicit port forwarding enabled in my router. AH works fine in that configuration.