A few months ago, I had to start using a VPN (AceVPN) to play STO and it has worked really well until two days ago. I know it's not the STO server's problem because if the STO server(s) were to blame, my tunnel would not come down, just the game client would get disconnected.
I think the problem is either AceVPN or (more likely) the local network (a university) is using something to throttle connections that transfer too much data in a given time. It does not seem to happen when I run Linux. I am using the OpenVPN client with AceVPN in both Linux and and Windows 7. Of course, I am not running the game in Linux and that might explain why the VPN does not get disconnected when I run Linux.
AceVPN can also use PPTP and one other client which I do not recall.
So if you are using AceVPN to play the game, have you been getting disconnected lately?
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