Frequently Disconnected

[Athosblack]

Greetings,
This really only started happening last week. I get disconnected now a handful of times per sitting (sitting = +3 hours). So it's a bit frustrating and worrying considering I come back in dead.

I am wondering if this is happening to other players and if there is a root cause? Many thanks for hearing me out.

Cheers

[Xevin]

We believe it happens because of packet loss.

A few months ago my friend couldn't even log in without going LD, but it appeared to him that his internet was perfectly fine. Websites loaded fast and downloads completed successfully and without errors. I had him go to pingtest.net and check things out. It turns out he had 20% packet loss. A week later the cable company re-ran the lines in his neighborhood and everything has been perfect ever since.

It also happens A TON to my friends when they are using a phone for connection. (LAN style play minus the pain of getting an IP exemption!) It seems cell signals lose quite a few packets. Verizon seems to be the best for P99. Followed by Sprint and then T-Mobile. None of us have AT&T. (thank god!) All our phones are Android (CyanogenMod 7) and tested from the same house on multiple (20+) occasions.

Approximately 70% of the time when they go LD it happens on a zone line. It seems like there is a greater risk there for some reason.

[Athosblack]

Cheers for the reply. I am going to check out pingtest.net and see if I am getting packet loss.

[aswin]

here is my ping test result. i got it from here whoisxy
Pinging cooltamil.com [64.64.4.118] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 64.64.4.118: bytes=32 time=51ms TTL=52
Reply from 64.64.4.118: bytes=32 time=51ms TTL=52
Reply from 64.64.4.118: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=52
Reply from 64.64.4.118: bytes=32 time=51ms TTL=52
Ping statistics for 64.64.4.118:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 51ms, Maximum = 53ms, Average = 51ms