Innet Connection fails

[nikos1313]

EDIT: the title should be 'Internet Connection Fails'...!!

Hello.

i had a break from DDO for about a week.
before the break, my connection was failing for about 1 time per 1 or 2 hours, only when DDO was running.
during my DDO break, in the whole week i remember only 1 time my connection failing. and during the week, i also played 2 other MMOs with not even 1 connection fail.
just now i open DDO again after the break, i log in with no red sign (!!!) and 30 seconds later my connection fails again.

any ideas/suggestions? im really dissapointed, and i dont wanna go back in connection fails.. i got really tired of that

[Lalangamena]

if you have other applications running in the background, close them,
especially chrome,
on my PC DDO hates chrome, when chrome is running, I cant login, with IE everything is fine...

[nikos1313]

nope, i dont even have chrome installed. using firefox.

[Missing_Minds]

nope, i dont even have chrome installed. using firefox.

What sites do you have open? DDO + firefox + flash videos... and things won't necessarily be happy. (I found this true of other games. It is how flash is.)

Apple itunes/movies/mp3 and I'd bet it would all come crashing down given my experience with quicktime. (I refuse to touch Apple stuff because of how crappy their PC software is.)

Also, are you the only one using your internal network?
How old is your modem?
How old is your router and what type of router are you using?

[nikos1313]

the connection fails happen even when i only have DDO on.

my modem is this http://support.linksys.com/en-eu/sup...teways/WAG120N

not sure when i got it exactly, but it was after 2010 i think.

also, the fails happens either im the only one using the network, or not. the max users who use this line are 2 though, but most times its only 1 user, me.

[nikos1313]

ffs... just had 5 connection fails in a row, only when i log in DDO... can anyone from this section of the forum actually suggest something? i thought this section is where a team helps users with problems like these.

[Seikojin]

ffs... just had 5 connection fails in a row, only when i log in DDO... can anyone from this section of the forum actually suggest something? i thought this section is where a team helps users with problems like these.

No team, this is just forum users helping other forum users. You should submit a ticket to turbine at www.turbine.com for support staff.

However, who is your internet service provider? If they use something like PPEoE, then you may need to configure some proxy settings in order for DDO to stay connected. Even without PPEoE you may need to configure something.

When you ran ddo the first time, did you say no to the internet access request it should have raised?

[Missing_Minds]

the connection fails happen even when i only have DDO on.
my modem is this http://support.linksys.com/en-eu/sup...teways/WAG120N
not sure when i got it exactly, but it was after 2010 i think.
also, the fails happens either im the only one using the network, or not. the max users who use this line are 2 though, but most times its only 1 user, me.

Linksys... You won't like this, but I am very biased against them as their stuff kept dying on me and my friends after about 1-2 years of use. So obviously I'm already suspect of your hardware.

I hope it is not, however. But your description reminds me more of a case where stacks are getting corrupted somehow and causing problems then failing.

I think I'd be running a constant ping tracert to gls.turbine.com (I think it is?) while tryign to play the game and see if it can see a death in pathing.

[nikos1313]

first, thank you for your time!
second, im not really familiar with all those u tell me but ill try.

in my modem settings i see 'Encapsulation: RCF 2364 PPPoA' should i change that to PPPoE, and see what happens?
about the 'When you ran ddo the first time, did you say no to the internet access request it should have raised?', i dont recall but most likelly i gave complete access. is there a way to check about it?


the modem has no problems at all. the fails happen only when i try to log on DDO. not alwayz, sometimes. but there are times, like teh last when i am gettin 4-5 connection fails one after another.


thnx again all of you for your time and help

[Flavilandile]

First thing first :

What part of the connection fails ?

Is it the Wifi connection or is it the DSL part ?

If it's the Wifi, try to connect to your router using a Cat5 cable ( the standard ethernet cable ).

Do not fiddle with the parameter of your router blindly.

Changing PPPoA to PPPoE will just bring down your DSL line until you change back.
( PPPoA : Point to Point Protocol over ATM; PPPoE : Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet; ATM is Asynchronous Transfer Mode, that's a data link layer protocol that uses a fixed frame size of 53 bytes; while Ethernet is a data link layer protocol that uses variable frame size ( usually 1500ish ) )

[TE5LA]

I was anxious to play this and spent hours downloading. Was going to get a couple of friends on-board to, but I finished first and installed it. The Happy Cloud version would not work (wouldn't connect) so I downloaded the full installer.

Got into the game and on the beach, I suddenly couldn't walk. I realized it was a connection issue. I turned on the indicator in options to check it and every 2-3 minutes it'd just disconnect. There were no problems with my Internet at the time.

I finally just un-installed the game. Sorry.