Consistently Timing Out

[mnemonikos82]

Hi, I am consistently timing out on EQ 1999.

About 2-10 minutes from zoning into the world my latency bar slowly but consistently starts to drop from 100% to 0% and then I get booted to the log in screen. It's been happening all night and I've tested the connection on my end and it "seems" to be working just fine. When I restart EQ I usually buy myself an extra couple of minutes, but it happens no matter which character or which zone I am in.

Someone in IRC suggested I open a command line and do 'ping google.com', 'tracert eqemulator.net', and 'tracert www.project1999.org'

The results in that order were:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\***>ping google.com

Pinging google.com [74.125.227.17] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 74.125.227.17: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=56
Reply from 74.125.227.17: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=56
Reply from 74.125.227.17: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=56
Reply from 74.125.227.17: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 74.125.227.17:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 33ms, Maximum = 35ms, Average = 33ms

C:\Documents and Settings\***>tracert eqemulator.net

Tracing route to eqemulator.net [67.23.190.71]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms ip68-102-160-1.ks.ok.cox.net [68.102.160.1]
3 8 ms 13 ms 10 ms wichcmta05.ks.ks.cox.net [68.103.127.209]
4 16 ms 16 ms 32 ms kscydsrj02-ae2.rd.ks.cox.net [70.183.71.105]
5 21 ms 16 ms 24 ms 70.183.71.65
6 36 ms 28 ms 27 ms dalsbprj01-ae0.0.rd.dl.cox.net [68.1.0.142]
7 62 ms 58 ms 66 ms 10gigabitethernet1-1.core1.atl1.he.net [72.52.92
.162]
8 64 ms 65 ms 69 ms Netriplex-LLC.gigabitethernet2-13.core1.atl1.he.
net [209.51.164.10]
9 70 ms 71 ms 78 ms te-5-5.rtr2.avl1.netriplex.com [67.23.161.254]
10 85 ms 69 ms 72 ms eqemulator.net [67.23.190.71]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\***>tracert www.project1999.org

Tracing route to project1999.org [67.23.190.70]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms 192.168.0.1
2 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms ip68-102-160-1.ks.ok.cox.net [68.102.160.1]
3 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms ip70-183-64-65.ks.ks.cox.net [70.183.64.65]
4 10 ms 8 ms 11 ms 70.183.66.74
5 16 ms 17 ms 23 ms kscydsrj02-ae2.rd.ks.cox.net [70.183.71.105]
6 17 ms 15 ms 17 ms 70.183.71.65
7 27 ms 29 ms 28 ms dalsbprj01-ae0.0.rd.dl.cox.net [68.1.0.142]
8 61 ms 59 ms 65 ms 10gigabitethernet1-1.core1.atl1.he.net [72.52.92
.162]
9 66 ms 68 ms 65 ms Netriplex-LLC.gigabitethernet2-13.core1.atl1.he.
net [209.51.164.10]
10 70 ms 78 ms 96 ms te-5-5.rtr2.avl1.netriplex.com [67.23.161.254]
11 69 ms 79 ms 84 ms rogean.com [67.23.190.70]

Trace complete.

Those tests were being run right before and during the timeout.

Can anyone help. I just started playing this week and I really want to play.

*EDIT*
I should add, that I played on Sunday for 5 hours without an issue.

Thanks!

[mnemonikos82]

Just as a pre-emptive strike. Are there any optimum settings for wifi routers? open ports or anything?

I am in Kansas on Cox on a wifi connection.

[mnemonikos82]

Did another test.

I used my used my phone as my internet source instead of my wireless router and while my ping was in the 600-800 range (not fine in Gfay), I didn't timeout once in roughly 40 minutes.

That tells me its a problem on my end (or just dumb luck that it didnt time out), either my router settings or my ISP was having a crap-tastic night.

So I guess that brings me back to my earlier question, are there any router settings I should be using as far as port forwarding or anything else?

[Uaellaen]

wifi is not always a stable connection ... if the wifi router is too far away, or too many things that block the signal are in the way, your connection can be very unreliable leading to loads of small disconnects ... you mostlikly wont notice it during browsing, but EQ will notice it ;)

you should check the connection status, every wifi adapter has some "tool" to check the signal strength ...

[Gusnadz]

Im having about the same issue but only happens to me in inside zones for the last week, I can play forever outside, but i can only be inside a dungeon about 10 to 15 min before i get laged out so bad i get kick off server (solb,paw and perma tested)

anyone got an issue like that ??? I need my eq fix but cant camp anything anymore =/

Edit: I have same kinda of trace rt and all other games Internet application run fine while EQ having the problem I really have no clue what it can be, ISP tech was useless ...big surprise there =/