Dropping connection since the patch? Possible fix here

[dlacourse]

Hey all. This is the first time I've posted here. I really enjoy playing on your servers. TG is the best there is out there! I play by the name of Digger_Dave. Anyway, I have not been able to hold a connection longer than 10 minutes since SF and the patch. I manually updated punkbuster using PBsetup.exe from the punkbuster website, and that seemed to do the trick. Hope this helps.

[lunisicx]

Try to trace you root to the TG server. See how your ping is long the way to TG server.

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Battlefield 2 Server #1 - Battlefield 2 - 70.86.19.218
Battlefield 2 Server #2 - Special Forces - 67.19.26.150
Battlefield 2 Private Server - Battlefield 2 - 70.84.146.202


In Windows 2000 or XP, go to "Start" > "Run" and type "cmd" and press the "Enter" key.

This will bring up a 'command prompt" window. It have a line that looks like this:
C:\Documents and Settings\yourname> _
with a cursor blinking next to the ">" symbol.

To run the traceroute type "tracert [hostname]" where the [hostname] is the name of the server that you are connection testing.
This test will proceed some up to a minute or more. It will generate a list of the connection along the way and some information about the speed of the steps along the way

[aculle01]

what should we be looking for? I ran the test and I got 19 different steps going to server 1 with 3 columns. The first nine rows (comcast address) range from 1-21 and then the numbers pick up at 10 from 49 ms to 112 ms (mostly around 50 though). Dont know if this is enough information to work with.

The past two days I have not been able to hold a connection to the TG servers. Until last night everything has been running fine.

edit: read other threads, Ive updated Punkbuster manually and emptied my cache and still was disconnected twice from TG server 1. got a good 5-10 minutes before I got kicked the second time.

[aculle01]

Been running the tracert command for most of the night/morning (up writing) and the consistent blip in the time is on either of the last two hops before reaching 70.86.19.218. A few times it was normal (~46) but most of the time it was popping up to 100 or so on one of the 3 digits and one time it read 1948ms 811 ms 295 ms along the 18th hop (the seond to last one).

pinged the server as well and havent lost a packet yet. really at a loss here. thanks for any help

[Acid]

You are looking where the ping jumps up the most, and that is your problem spot.

[aculle01]

anything I can do? looks like its at the server end

[aculle01]

looks like it worked itself out (knock on wood).



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