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SilvanGhost · 06-11-2009, 08:17 AM

My friend and I have been trying to find an mmo to play for the last month, but every mmo we find randomly disconnects him at increasingly shorter intervals. It occurs with games that don't have any obvious similarities.

We tried playing Perfect World yesterday around noon and when he started playing it only disconnected him once an hour. He then left for a few hours and when he came back we started playing again at about 10pm and after an hour, disconnect, but then the time between dcs rapidly shrunk to the point at which it was every 5 minutes around midnight.

We've searched all over the internet for solutions and haven't found any so far that work. He is on a cable internet connection behind two routers (I think), one router in his apartment and the other is the landlord's. His computer is connected to his router through wifi, and then I'm assuming its ethernet from there to the external router.

Games that I know work:
RYL/RYL2/ROW
Anarchy Online
any and all FPS games
LAN games through Hamachi

Games that I know dc:
Perfect World
Cabal
2moons
Battle.net (we're assuming this is a port issue since he can't connect at all)

He has posted his own topic on other forums:
http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/sh....php?p=2969411

Also, whenever these disconnects happen, his internet connection remains perfectly find, our voice chat sessions on Meebo do not drop at all. This leads me to believe its something out of our hands, which I'm hoping is not the case. My initial guess is that his landlords router, which we don't have access to, is set wrong and somehow dropping packets for only these games.

If anyone has any ideas at all, any help would be appreciated. If no solutions, than is there any way to get more information? Such as logs or tests we could run to troubleshoot this?

I'll get more info if needed, may take a day or two since we sometimes run on different schedules.

Thanks.

06-11-2009, 08:17 AM	#1 (permalink)
SilvanGhost Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: IL Posts: 5 OS: Win XP My System	Random disconnects from multiple mmos My friend and I have been trying to find an mmo to play for the last month, but every mmo we find randomly disconnects him at increasingly shorter intervals. It occurs with games that don't have any obvious similarities. We tried playing Perfect World yesterday around noon and when he started playing it only disconnected him once an hour. He then left for a few hours and when he came back we started playing again at about 10pm and after an hour, disconnect, but then the time between dcs rapidly shrunk to the point at which it was every 5 minutes around midnight. We've searched all over the internet for solutions and haven't found any so far that work. He is on a cable internet connection behind two routers (I think), one router in his apartment and the other is the landlord's. His computer is connected to his router through wifi, and then I'm assuming its ethernet from there to the external router. Games that I know work: RYL/RYL2/ROW Anarchy Online any and all FPS games LAN games through Hamachi Games that I know dc: Perfect World Cabal 2moons Battle.net (we're assuming this is a port issue since he can't connect at all) He has posted his own topic on other forums: http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/sh....php?p=2969411 Also, whenever these disconnects happen, his internet connection remains perfectly find, our voice chat sessions on Meebo do not drop at all. This leads me to believe its something out of our hands, which I'm hoping is not the case. My initial guess is that his landlords router, which we don't have access to, is set wrong and somehow dropping packets for only these games. If anyone has any ideas at all, any help would be appreciated. If no solutions, than is there any way to get more information? Such as logs or tests we could run to troubleshoot this? I'll get more info if needed, may take a day or two since we sometimes run on different schedules. Thanks.