Online mutiplayer problems

[Ramstein]

I am having some problems with holding a steady connection. I have connection droputs. They seem to happen in the evening more often.

 

I have RoadRunner Cable. The cable company has not found any problem,. My Cable Modem is fine, al the cables and splitters. My computer are fine. 4 of them. Well, in my house, 2 are mine, other 2 are other people's.

 

I have a D-Link 624 Rev C Wireless Router (The router was recently sent to me by D-Link as a replacement for a new one I bought a couple years ago. I sent them the old one under warranty because the wireless distance was not good). I also have a new back-up router in the closet in case I need another router. Though, I do not run my game playing computer in wireless mode. I run the R45 cable network connection directly to the router.

 

 

MY connection dropouts and disconnects are often. I am wondering if anyone else is having continuing issues with not only Black Shark online playing, but other games and flight sims too.

 

Right now I am running my network with no router, I am running this computer directly to the Motorola Cable Modem I lease from Roadrunner cable. I had Roadrunner/Time Warner check my cable line, they ran some tests from their equipment, online ping, etc. and said they don't see any problems. Of course the problems always seem top occur mostly in the evening. But can happen at any time. It could be it is some network problems Roadrunner has during peak hours. If it were my router and computer, it would happen all the time and not at select times.

 

Anyways, just wondering if anyone else has a similar problem and maybe has Roadrunner cable. Also, if you have a D-Link DI-624 Router Rev C, the latest firmware is 2.76

http://support.dlink.com/products/view.asp?productid=DI%2D624%5FrevC

:huh:

 

Thanx..

Edited May 13, 2009 by Ramstein

[JG14_Smil]

Have you tried deleting the bs/temp folder contents? Hope you get it fixed.

[104th_Crunch]

Can you plug direct into the modem without the router to test to see if it's better?

[Ramstein]

I swapped out my D-Link di-624 Router for another Router I had stashed away that I bought new a year ago.. I am running a day long test with it..

:joystick:

[Panzertard]

With command prompt you could do a "tracert <ip_to_host_here>"

Then you start 2 new cmd prompts, first with "ping -t <first_ip_from_trace>"

The second with "ping -t <ip_to_host>"

And keep them running while you play.

 

After a while you should notice which part of the route that break.

If both pings breaks, then it's internally - your WLAN.

If the latter ping breaks then it's the route on internet only.

 

Optionally, you could keep a "pathping <host_ip>" running, but it will only run for a limitied period, so you need to restart it quite often.

 

Good luck :)

[Ramstein]

Hi, and thanx for this good tip..

I think the ip I need to put in would be from a person that joins my server, other than myself?

 

It does not boot me, from my own network, it boots people who join from the Internet.. so I will ask them for their IP's and will put those in for the IP Tracing.. and will do the tracing on the computer running Servman script...

:thumbup:

 

With command prompt you could do a "tracert <ip_to_host_here>"

Then you start 2 new cmd prompts, first with "ping -t <first_ip_from_trace>"

The second with "ping -t <ip_to_host>"

And keep them running while you play.

 

After a while you should notice which part of the route that break.

If both pings breaks, then it's internally - your WLAN.

If the latter ping breaks then it's the route on internet only.

 

Optionally, you could keep a "pathping <host_ip>" running, but it will only run for a limitied period, so you need to restart it quite often.

 

Good luck :)

[Kuky]

If you are on ADSL2+ connection (I can't see what Inetrnet service/connection you have) it could be that data modulation for your service is not very complatible meaning ADSL2+ profile is not stable for your line. I had this problem before and what my ISP had to do is change me to ADSL1 modulation/profile and after that I had no more frequent dropouts (they still do happen, maybe every few days once, which is normal).

[Ramstein]

Cable Internet, Time Warner, Road Runner...

10 mb down/1 mb up, but I sometimes get 20 mb down during boost,,,

[Ramstein]

For now I have had the TW/RR tech come out and he found a crushed cable line in the cable box on the street and he fixed that. I was still at -9db at the cable modem. Having two cable boxes and the cable modem the power drop was still pretty high. I bought and installed a cable signal booster ($40 for an RCA DT104M) and it is now -6db at the cable modem. Time Warner has offered me a free upgrade to RR Turbo for 12 months. (the actual offer was the choice of 2 movie channels or RR Turbo free upgrade for 12 months). I chose the RR Turbo upgrade. I will stil pay the price for regual Internet speeds.

Shall see how well this works.

 

my speed will be 15 mb down / 2 mb up with RR Turbo.

 

But, this is weird, because right now my tests are showing 25 mb down / 2 mb up. I figure this is a boost RoadRunner gives that only lasts a few seconds though, in the first few seconds of Internet use.

:music_whistling:

[Panzertard]

Just a heads up if you didnt know it.

It's the "up" speed of 2mbps that is important for others connecting to you. You will be sending data "up" to them from your server.

 

In that aspect - dont get your hopes too high regarding how many people who can play at your server.

I would assume you should be able to host for 2 guests - no sweat.

4 People - yes, you shouldnt have any problems, unless they have problems in their end.

8 people - well, this is beyond some of the recomendations I've seen for DCS MP hosting. (Which is based on "get 1mbps for each guest you are planning to host for). I havent seen any good definitions of the host / guest data requirements yet though. :)

 

Personally I would definitively experiment with it and see how well she (Mrs. Server host ... Nina wasnt it?) holds together.

Altough I would be supprised if someone have problems staying connected / lags / desyncs if you go beyond what you can expect to host :)

 

Good luck, Ramstein :)

[Ramstein]

my small cpu is a limitation for hosting...

[Ramstein]

I ran a dedicated server and we played for a few hours straight with no problems! :thumbup:

[Panzertard]

There you go - glad to hear :)

[iceden]

have you tried running a ping -t to the server(s) to see if there are any tomeouts? Are others on same server having same prob? I have same probs sometimes but only for servers 200+ ping.