Login servers constantly jammed

bladez

Not sure if this is the right place to put this but the login servers are killing me. I only have 6 toons and have always done my invokes at reset, so i can insure they are all done, lately as in the last few days when ever I would switch to a toon it seems like a pot luck.

Toon A:logins in but lags till I camp and relog in
Toon B: logins fine,
Toon C: Please wait while we redirect you to the login screen.............. up to a minute later booted and have to log back into the game
Toon C: Logs in but has huge lag, camps to self and logs in fine.
Toon logs in with lag, camp to self logs in fine
Toon E: logs in fine
Toon F: Please wait while we redirect you to the login screen.............. up to a minute later booted and have to log back into the game

second set of invokes is a mixture of the same but normally different toons. and yet sometimes I can log in an out with no problems though this no longer seems to be the norm but the exception.

I do hope you can find the problem

plasticbat

These days I am not sure if it is login server issue or the client program issue.
I alt-f4 when that happens. Re-login from scratch. It can re-connect right the way.
After being booted, the client program is still running. If it is 'bugged', it is not reset.

bladez

I am more inclined to think it is a Client Server Router issue, I say this as If I change character the issue can be resolved without restarting the game. Also the fact that when it happens you can see the NPC's CL_Server_***** label briefly suggest it is a latency from where the game calls its NPC file/names from.

plasticbat

bladez#8277 said:

I am more inclined to think it is a Client Server Router issue, I say this as If I change character the issue can be resolved without restarting the game. Also the fact that when it happens you can see the NPC's CL_Server_***** label briefly suggest it is a latency from where the game calls its NPC file/names from.

Then, we don't have the same "login server" problem. My problem happens when I change character. I did not see the message you mentioned. It just hang there for a long time until it timeout and boot me all the way to login.

chadvaliant

I have the same problems as you bladez and a large percentage of people I play with are struggling with either disconnects or massive lag. I'm personally more lag than disconnects but my guess is that they are related.

I don't think it's client side unless it has something to do with this latest Fall Update from Windows. My issues started before mod 12b hit us and so nothing changed client side. It became unplayable for me on about the 17th/18th of October which is the same time Windows update launched (might be total coincidence though).

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bladez

All i know that this started happening when they updated the hardware a couple of weeks ago. The night before they ""fixed"" the hardware I had no login or character change issues, the next day after the patch... laggy login servers and problems with changing toons

reg1981

@nitocris83

Any chance we can throw boo a treat and see if he can keep the login server up for us? I'm having a hateful time switching characters tonight. I'm on toon #4 with a timeout during each switch. So far that's 100% fail.