Empty Server Select

[AktionT4]

Found a solution to no servers showing up in "Server Select".

I have a wireless N600 Belkin router. After configuring port forwarding to 5998, and setting up a DMZ for my PC, I was still having issues getting the Titanium client to connect with a server list.

Systematically, I started going through every setting in my router to determine what could be the reason why directly connecting through the modem works, but a DMZ doesn't. Wireshark confirmed I was getting packets WITH server listings but they weren't being displayed in the game GUI.

Then I came across a setting in my router for a service called Intellistream - which is some sort of Quality of Service mechanism for prioritizing traffic within my router. Voice, video, games... all get tagged for priority.

Somehow, the Intellistream QoS process is corrupting UDP frames... They're coming in to the router, but something is happening to the data before it gets to the game client and likely, the game client is just choking on the corrupted data. Not sure if it's failing a CRC, or if the game client is dumping corrupted packets, but either way, the QoS service is the culprit.

Anyhow.. I would imagine that anyone that has a router with some sort of QoS service built into their router AND is having trouble with empty server lists, try disabling it. I'm not forwarding ports, I'm not in a DMZ, and I disabled Intellistream. Instant connections with server lists!

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Found a solution to no servers showing up in "Server Select".

I have a wireless N600 Belkin router. After configuring port forwarding to 5998, and setting up a DMZ for my PC, I was still having issues getting the Titanium client to connect with a server list.

Systematically, I started going through every setting in my router to determine what could be the reason why directly connecting through the modem works, but a DMZ doesn't. Wireshark confirmed I was getting packets WITH server listings but they weren't being displayed in the game GUI.

Then I came across a setting in my router for a service called Intellistream - which is some sort of Quality of Service mechanism for prioritizing traffic within my router. Voice, video, games... all get tagged for priority.

Somehow, the Intellistream QoS process is corrupting UDP frames... They're coming in to the router, but something is happening to the data before it gets to the game client and likely, the game client is just choking on the corrupted data. Not sure if it's failing a CRC, or if the game client is dumping corrupted packets, but either way, the QoS service is the culprit.

Anyhow.. I would imagine that anyone that has a router with some sort of QoS service built into their router AND is having trouble with empty server lists, try disabling it. I'm not forwarding ports, I'm not in a DMZ, and I disabled Intellistream. Instant connections with server lists!

DOWN WITH QOS ALL PACKETS ARE EQUAL.