I just patched up the game 10 mins ago and started up the game, I went from starfleet academy to sector space only to disconnect 4 times on the way to beta ursae sector block. I can't play this game disconnecting every 20 seconds.
I have tried it with US proxy enabled and the same problem is happening
I have never come across this problem before but I have changed my ISP
My speedtest result below:

Please help, thank you
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disconnected from Dse twice now.
But not as often as described above. It was more like once every 20 minutes.
And i don't have any programs rnning in background, except the usual Windows routines. (my be a mistake). But no chat tools, steam or anything like that. Still got disconnected quiete often.
When grouped with my buddy, this is what he gets spammed in the chatbox
True.
I start playing the Starbase 24 mission and anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes in I get disconnected from server for no reason.
[Edit] Never mind....
thw whole game are no longer playable!
Please fix this Devs? I will be getting a new computer soon with Win 7 and will also be affected.
The devs most likely work on systems that are as close as vanilla Win systems as possible to make sure that theres a ultimate baseline. Doing this ensures that most possible people can play the game, but dosn't take other systems such as XFire into account.
XFire is probably not the only program interfering with STO, it just happens to be somthing that more players tend to use.
Sadly they can not take every user and random programs into account, cause if they were, they would never be done pushing anything out.
Cant get more vanilla than Windoze 7 Home Premium. Also if your running this game on bare bones gear turn off active desktop. Gobbles memory
It does in fact seem fairly random... some get DC's every 20 seconds, I had 4 only, and some never get hit.
Yesterdays bug was an explosion of a proxy bug thats been going on for weeks now. Which still isnt fixed, but they did reduce what was happening yesterday. If i wasnt a lifetime member already id have cancled till they got it fixed, cause why pay if you cant play right.
Techies...please keep at this until it is as near perfect as humanly possible.