Well, I keep getting disconnected.

me too......it started happening today and its not ur network

Are you on a wireless local area network connection?

I doubt you're using the same positioning and network cards, nevermind the underlying software. Are there any driver updates for your wireless card?

Have you updated them, or checked for updates? Just yesterday I went to purchase a brand new laptop that had display drivers dating back to the operating system's release date.

As you've been pointing out, your friend has been using nearly the exact same path to the servers, so I'm automatically interested in the parts that are a little different.

yea i have the same problem 2, it just started a few days ago and ive been killed 21 times since..

and i have tryed to update everything...

I had exactly the same problem. I connected to another Pve server, created a new character, and just like that my disconnect problem disappeared. If the problem was on my end of the network surely I would have had the same problem with all three servers. But I don't.

if you put graphic to minimum do you get disconnected? this happens to my best bud alot even during fbs T.T

Yeap happened to me once yesterday..the disconect thing , i tryed to log in once..didn't work , waited about 20 minutes , tryed again ... worked perfectly before that , and ever since. No problems here, no lag.
Xp sp3 , everything up to date of course. I'm in Romania , eastern Europe.

I have never had problems with d/c like I am currently. Ever since the emerg maint yesterday I cant stay connected more than 10 min.

I'm running vista, its all updated and I'm located in Canada.

There is no issue with my network connection, as other programs (such as skype) are staying connected through all of this ._.

Zaharia - Sanctuary wrote: »

I don't see why the PW mods aren't doing anything about this. Many people are having trouble with the servers. They keep telling me it's my computer, and it's not. They keep telling me it's my network, and I know for a fact it's not. Time for a petition?

Hmm. I've read a bit in this thread, and it reminds on the same issue we solved some time ago.
A friend of mine and his wife are playing PW as well, both with a wireless connection, in the same room. He always got disconnected often a day while she did not, so he was sure it can't be the wireless thingy. Additionally because there were no problems with browsing websites and such. But the problem lasts for weeks, even months, and we asked him just to give it a try to use a direct (wired) connection from the router to his PC - and he got never disconnected since then.
I bet the mods or admins here are not trying to avoid looking into what could be wrong with the PW client or server, nor are they trying to make you angry.
I for myself would really suggest just to TRY it with a wired connection, as a test.

(A small technical excursion why arguments like "I definitely know it's not my network connection because each other internet-related software works properly" should be thought over: There is a main difference between streamed content like websites, skype, teamspeak, and MMORPGs on the other side. Most of the internet traffic is based on the TCP protocol, which has a lot of checksums embedded and the ability to re-request failed data blocks. Games on the other hand mostly make use of the UDP protocol with none or few checksum used. It's used because it works much faster, based on the fact that it has much less overhead. BUT you need a nearly perfect connection, only few errors can be compensated. Now, the problem is, some wireless cards tend to shuffle the sequence of data blocks transmitted, either to get a better troughput or because they "think" some packets are more urgent or it does not make any difference - which is true for TCP, but it's not for UDP.
Sadly enough, some wlan-card manufacturers do not really test their hardware in a gaming environment.
Everything works perfect for websides, skype, file-sharing, but some MMORPGs will fail because of weak UDP support.)


Additionally, there is another thing which could cause the disconnect problem: Is anybody of you running a bittorrent client?
Bittorrent tends to run a background process in your computer to keep multiple (and massive) connections to the internet to upload your shared files to other users although you're currently not running the client (a bit rude behaviour if you ask me), which WILL cause the problems I've seen here. This backgound process runs as a service, so try to disable it with msconfig (start -> run -> msconfig -> enter, if I remember it right the process is called btdna.exe); or better, de-install bittorrent, check with taskmanager if btdna.exe is really not running anymore and have a look if the problems disappear. If you can't live without filesharing then, give Azureus a try.

good luck

Also, some things to try:

Is it DHCP enabled?

If so, check the time interval on the lease renewing. If too low, it could cause that. Also, check the MTU. Some games have a very specific MTU requirement.

I play with two other friend's off a wireless router, and occasionally, one of us will start lagging out.

Force to desktop - Safe Log - GG.

50% of the time, you've died.