ok...i'm going to try to be calm and not rant and rave in this post, because i really need some serious input as to what to do here...
for the past two weeks (and i had the same problem for about three days the week prior to this instance) i've not been able to connect to the server for the main arena, although i can get into the other arenas (ct, etc) according to the traces that i've done (thanks to pyro for the "tracert" thingie knowledge), my attempt to connect is screwed, most of the time, at an at&t router/hop...99% of the time at the same one. also, in the last couple of days, my attempt to connect is timing out at a couple of more routers/hops, just before reaching the destination (theplanet.com).
i've sent emails out the wazoo about this...to htc, theplanet, my isp...and keep getting the same responses: "...we'll see what we can do..." and "there's nothing we can do, because it's not on our "end""...
does anyone know of anything at all i can do? i've talke to some people about this at work, and they said something about screwing with my network adapter settings? (i dunno...don't claim to be a computer expert by any means, but is this possible?)
this is probably a sure sign of having no life, but i really enjoy coming home and playing ah, and being as i can't log into the ma, i'm really starting to get pissed. this wouldn't even be a problem really IF more people flew in the ct, but as everyone knows, there's usually a handful of players on at any given time which does me no good.
so again, does anyone know of anything i can do? (besides get the physical address of the routers and go postal on them?)
i've about had it!
by the way...i'm posting the last trace that i did (about 5 minutes ago) so you can see what i mean.
Tracing route to core0.theplanet.com [216.234.234.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 46 ms 27 ms 13 ms 10.100.144.1
2 19 ms 61 ms 9 ms sw.chartertn.net [24.158.96.6]
3 16 ms 10 ms 44 ms chartertn-gw1.chartertn.net [24.158.96.226]
4 69 ms 25 ms 71 ms 12.127.29.145
5 101 ms 29 ms 94 ms gbr5-p50.attga.ip.att.net [12.123.197.42]
6 32 ms 32 ms 59 ms gbr4-p100.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.5.42]
7 68 ms 80 ms 113 ms gbr3-p10.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.3.37]
8 70 ms 124 ms 57 ms gbr6-p60.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.5.81]
9 41 ms 86 ms 46 ms gar2-p370.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.123.17.29]
10 38 ms 41 ms 46 ms 12.124.211.58
11 81 ms 43 ms 42 ms border3.ge4-1-bbnet2.ext1.dal.pnap.net [216.52.191.83]
12 42 ms 88 ms 41 ms core0.theplanet.com [216.234.234.1]
Trace complete.
Tracing route to core1.theplanet.com [216.234.234.253]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 13 ms 12 ms 8 ms 10.100.144.1
2 9 ms 47 ms 41 ms sw.chartertn.net [24.158.96.6]
3 12 ms 23 ms 21 ms chartertn-gw1.chartertn.net [24.158.96.226]
4 15 ms 20 ms 20 ms 12.127.29.245
5 65 ms 42 ms 64 ms gbr6-p50.attga.ip.att.net [12.123.197.50]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 38 ms 53 ms 88 ms gbr3-p10.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.3.37]
8 79 ms 78 ms 91 ms gbr5-p60.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.5.73]
9 73 ms 85 ms 46 ms gar2-p360.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.123.17.25]
10 85 ms 82 ms 46 ms 12.124.211.58
11 46 ms 43 ms 39 ms border3.ge3-1-bbnet1.ext1.dal.pnap.net [216.52.191.22]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * 51 ms core1.theplanet.com [216.234.234.253]
Trace complete.
Tracing route to core2.theplanet.com [216.234.234.252]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 17 ms 30 ms 19 ms 10.100.144.1
2 13 ms 11 ms 13 ms sw.chartertn.net [24.158.96.6]
3 9 ms 15 ms 11 ms chartertn-gw1.chartertn.net [24.158.96.226]
4 16 ms 51 ms 110 ms 12.127.29.145
5 109 ms 71 ms 36 ms gbr5-p50.attga.ip.att.net [12.123.197.42]
6 68 ms 36 ms 110 ms gbr4-p100.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.5.42]
7 105 ms 143 ms 80 ms gbr3-p10.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.3.37]
8 62 ms 73 ms 78 ms gbr6-p60.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.5.81]
9 46 ms 47 ms 41 ms gar2-p370.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.123.17.29]
10 53 ms 50 ms 51 ms 12.124.211.58
11 74 ms 54 ms 81 ms border3.ge4-1-bbnet2.ext1.dal.pnap.net [216.52.191.83]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 86 ms 91 ms 122 ms core2.theplanet.com [216.234.234.252]
Trace complete.
The Tuckster
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