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Working overseas. Way to test my connection to the servers before I buy?

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Working overseas, can I somehow test my connection to the servers before I buy? Would hate to shell out the money to find out I can't even play...


And I really want to play!! So bored!

Thanks!
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    you can do a tracert patchserver.crypticstudios.com and a nettest


    Nettest:
    Go to http://files.champions-online.com/nettest.exe
    Download this file and run it
    A command prompt should appear running the test automatically

    For good connections, column 1 and 3 have values around 500 kb/sec (outgoing/incoming), column 2 has values around 20 kb/sec (transfer rate). If the values in these columns is less than what is expected you may have filtering or blocked ports either on your personal network or from your ISP.

    values below 250 in columns 1 and 3 and less than 14 in column 2 you will likely have lag and disconnect problems.

    the game uses ports tcp ports 7000-7500 nettest only checks a small subset of the critical ports
    if you want to see if any of the game ports are blocked you can use a web base port checker on all the ports
    http://www.firebind.com/col.php
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    i can give you a 10 day free pass
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Bad news:
    "contacting nettest server...
    timed out
    hit return to exit"

    Not sure if this is good or bad:
    Tracing route to patchserver.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41]
    over a maximum of 30 hops:

    1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 10.1.3.129
    2 1 ms <1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.69
    3 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.106
    4 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 10.0.0.1
    5 560 ms 561 ms 557 ms 207.241.164.65.netsatx.net [207.241.164.65]
    6 570 ms 595 ms 583 ms 207.241.173.1.netsatx.net [207.241.173.1]
    7 573 ms 571 ms 568 ms fe0-3-2.m20-1.netsatx.net [207.241.161.188]
    8 565 ms 584 ms 612 ms 12.124.179.25
    9 561 ms 561 ms 561 ms cr84.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.123.2.138]
    10 570 ms 563 ms 561 ms cr2.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.122.115.93]
    11 564 ms 585 ms 566 ms n54ny02jt.ip.att.net [12.122.80.237]
    12 568 ms 575 ms 583 ms 192.205.36.78
    13 573 ms 580 ms 587 ms te0-2-0-4.mpd22.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.3.1]
    14 569 ms 570 ms 595 ms te0-0-0-6.ccr21.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.249]
    15 570 ms 566 ms 585 ms te3-4.ccr01.bos06.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.46.134]
    16 592 ms 577 ms 607 ms 38.111.40.114
    17 567 ms 568 ms 574 ms 208.95.185.41

    Trace complete.

    Good news:
    "TCP ports 7000-7599 are open on your network. Firebind was successfully able to transmit and receive data over these ports using TCP."

    Thanks for the offer for a free trial, I got one already though :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Any ideas? Thanks!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    nettest
    if using win7 or vista you need to run with is set to run as admin
    you also need to be sure it is allowed net access by your firewall and antivirus

    your tracert looks bad the game server are not very tolerant of latency so usually you need less that 250 on the tracert pings
    high the more likely lag and disconnects.

    also the game does not normally work well using a proxy (other than the proxy cryptic has set up in the launcher options) so if your IE internet options connection(communications) tab lan setting is set to use a proxy may prevent things from connecting.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Bummer, sad panda. Thanks for the help, I am open to any other suggestions too.
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