Random disconnects

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 11 Apr 2006, 22:54

I am wondering if the random disconnects i experience are resulting from my ISP (comcast cable, here in the U.S.), or something to do with the lobby/spring/lag.

Is there anyway to know? Its quite frustrating to be 40 minutes into a battle and then have it suddenly quit out on you, saying the connection was "closed." Then my allies think i just abandoned them and i fear i will get a poor reputation for leaving games.

patmo98 · Post by **patmo98** » 12 Apr 2006, 07:00

Sheekel wrote:I am wondering if the random disconnects i experience are resulting from my ISP (comcast cable, here in the U.S.), or something to do with the lobby/spring/lag.

I use comcast in the US, and I don't have very many disconnects. Even in multi-hour games.

Sheekel wrote:Is there anyway to know? Its quite frustrating to be 40 minutes into a battle and then have it suddenly quit out on you, saying the connection was "closed." Then my allies think i just abandoned them and i fear i will get a poor reputation for leaving games.

Do you get disconnected from the lobby server?

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 12 Apr 2006, 15:49

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 13 Apr 2006, 02:02

Comcast is known to have the least reliable network in the USA. If you're on comcast and you're not experiancing any reliability issues consider yourself lucky. The NS cal finals were screwed over one season because of major lag issues which in the end turned out to be comcast's fault.

cyclerboy · Post by **cyclerboy** » 13 Apr 2006, 06:53

i never have any problems with comcast. no disconnects during games that is.

Azu · Post by **Azu** » 13 Apr 2006, 07:31

If only you get disconnected and everyone else stays in the game it means it's a problem on your end.

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 13 Apr 2006, 11:19

SwiftSpear wrote:Comcast is known to have the least reliable network in the USA. If you're on comcast and you're not experiancing any reliability issues consider yourself lucky. The NS cal finals were screwed over one season because of major lag issues which in the end turned out to be comcast's fault.

Some lagger once said "Its not my fsailt i'm lagging, Its comcasts". After some wallhacks, Aimbot and Speedhax proof (Ie, Following NA invisible skulk around the room, Going over the pistosl Rof and reloaind ti in 0.2 seconds), It turned out it wasn't comsats fault, It was jsut taht he was an idiot script kiddie who thought having 100 differant hacks runnign at once wouldn't make you lag :D

Cabbage · Post by **Cabbage** » 13 Apr 2006, 16:38

NS :D

Anyway - I use Demon in the U.k. and they're very reliable, I don't think ive ever lost my connection whilst playing spring. Crashed once or twice perhaps but dont think i've had a single problem due to my ISP.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 13 Apr 2006, 23:42

Drone_Fragger wrote:
SwiftSpear wrote:Comcast is known to have the least reliable network in the USA. If you're on comcast and you're not experiancing any reliability issues consider yourself lucky. The NS cal finals were screwed over one season because of major lag issues which in the end turned out to be comcast's fault.
Some lagger once said "Its not my fsailt i'm lagging, Its comcasts". After some wallhacks, Aimbot and Speedhax proof (Ie, Following NA invisible skulk around the room, Going over the pistosl Rof and reloaind ti in 0.2 seconds), It turned out it wasn't comsats fault, It was jsut taht he was an idiot script kiddie who thought having 100 differant hacks runnign at once wouldn't make you lag :D

I really don't think that was the issue in the NS finals. About 400 people were watching them so it would have been pretty hard to hack without getting caught.

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 13 Apr 2006, 23:43

SwiftSpear wrote:
Drone_Fragger wrote:
SwiftSpear wrote:Comcast is known to have the least reliable network in the USA. If you're on comcast and you're not experiancing any reliability issues consider yourself lucky. The NS cal finals were screwed over one season because of major lag issues which in the end turned out to be comcast's fault.
Some lagger once said "Its not my fsailt i'm lagging, Its comcasts". After some wallhacks, Aimbot and Speedhax proof (Ie, Following NA invisible skulk around the room, Going over the pistosl Rof and reloaind ti in 0.2 seconds), It turned out it wasn't comsats fault, It was jsut taht he was an idiot script kiddie who thought having 100 differant hacks runnign at once wouldn't make you lag :D
I really don't think that was the issue in the NS finals. About 400 people were watching them so it would have been pretty hard to hack without getting caught.

not in the NS finals, On some Public Ns server. There were about 8 people alltogther. Can't rmeber the name off hand though :D

LOrDo · Post by **LOrDo** » 15 Apr 2006, 06:59

Sheekel wrote:I am wondering if the random disconnects i experience are resulting from my ISP (comcast cable, here in the U.S.), or something to do with the lobby/spring/lag.

Is there anyway to know? Its quite frustrating to be 40 minutes into a battle and then have it suddenly quit out on you, saying the connection was "closed." Then my allies think i just abandoned them and i fear i will get a poor reputation for leaving games.

Only the stupid ones. A good feature of spring is 2 diffrent leave messages.
If the person exits out on purpose by pressing shift-esc, it will say "Player has left" (I think), if it disconnects from any other reason it says "lost connection to player".
So spring will tell you if the person quits on purpose or not, very handy for sorting out people with bad interweb from quitters.

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