NOOOOOOOO return trip from Sag A on hold

Leper Messiah · Jul 28, 2015

I'm just about 2kly into my return trip from Sag A.....been having weird issues getting websites to load all morning, needing loads of refreshes and reloading. I manage to get the game running but it was taking an AAAAAAAGE to drop out of FSD to every star. So I quit out and see if I can fix things with a hub reboot, makes things worse I can't even get past the launcher now it just hangs and crashes at various points but never gets to the game anymore.

Played other games like Project CARS and Alien Isolation no problems, even redownloaded C&C 3+4 with no problems at normal speeds, speedtests all show normality once I get the test pages to load. Raceroom racing also fails to work. Elite and R3E need constant server connection so is that my issue? I think I'm getting constant micro drops but then things reconnect immediately it seems. Just no good for Elite

bummed.

Cmdr Raz · Jul 28, 2015

It could be constant microdrops, had some issues with that a while back, and it definitely affects ED. Sorry for your troubles, Commander - hope you get it fixed soon!

Leper Messiah · Jul 28, 2015

Cmdr Raz said:
It could be constant microdrops, had some issues with that a while back, and it definitely affects ED. Sorry for your troubles, Commander - hope you get it fixed soon!

Thanks

May I ask how it was resolved for you?

Cmdr Raz · Jul 28, 2015

Leper Messiah said:
Thanks
May I ask how it was resolved for you?

Mine had to do with interference (computer is next to an old concrete and steel chimney) on the wifi, cabling it solved it for me. Probably not much help, sorry

But the ED servers are definitely sensitive, but STEAM usually is as well - have you tried downloading something through STEAM? If it's micro drops it would be easy to tell then.

Leper Messiah · Jul 29, 2015

Cmdr Raz said:
Mine had to do with interference (computer is next to an old concrete and steel chimney) on the wifi, cabling it solved it for me. Probably not much help, sorry But the ED servers are definitely sensitive, but STEAM usually is as well - have you tried downloading something through STEAM? If it's micro drops it would be easy to tell then.

ah, Steam works fine I redownloaded a couple of games to test and all ok. Iposted on the BT support forums and someone said this:

TCP connections aren't reliably getting established. ICMP and UDP packets seem just fine, hence no packet loss on a ping test. Once a TCP session is established, it stays open forever. This is why browsing is stalling for people - http/https runs over TCP. I'm losing about 5% of all TCP connection attempts.

Not sure what that means but I hope BT fix the issue soon!!

Leper Messiah · Jul 29, 2015

good news, I got back into Elite just now.....took ages for the launcher to work, took ages to load once I clicked "play game" but I just left it and it eventually worked!! Woohoo getting my Elite fix!

Cmdr Raz · Jul 29, 2015

Leper Messiah said:
ah, Steam works fine I redownloaded a couple of games to test and all ok. Iposted on the BT support forums and someone said this:

TCP connections aren't reliably getting established. ICMP and UDP packets seem just fine, hence no packet loss on a ping test. Once a TCP session is established, it stays open forever. This is why browsing is stalling for people - http/https runs over TCP. I'm losing about 5% of all TCP connection attempts.

Not sure what that means but I hope BT fix the issue soon!!

5% is quite bad

Hope they fix it soon!

Leper Messiah · Jul 29, 2015

Garix said:
AS your on BT this may be of intrest at the moment (depending where in the UK you are)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/29/bt_broadband_in_broadbased_brownout_and_titsup_incidents/

titsup sounds about right!! cheers for the link

Leper Messiah · Jul 30, 2015

Happy to report things seem fine now!

Jakester13 · Jul 30, 2015

Been having the exact same issues (An actual BT customer) for the past couple of days.

It's like dial-up days... websites taking an age to resolve, and E: D launcher seeming unresponsive. Frustrating!

And, when I finally coaxed E: D into life, the looongest jumps ever.

Hope they get on top of it soon!

Leper Messiah · Jul 30, 2015

Jakester13 said:
Been having the exact same issues (An actual BT customer) for the past couple of days.

It's like dial-up days... websites taking an age to resolve, and E: D launcher seeming unresponsive. Frustrating!

And, when I finally coaxed E: D into life, the looongest jumps ever.

Hope they get on top of it soon!

Is yours sorted mate? Mine seems fine.

Jakester13 · Jul 30, 2015

T'Internet seems "back to normal" today - no issues to report!

But working not flying... will have to wait till later to test E: D

Cmdr Raz · Jul 30, 2015

Happy to see BT is faster than my ISP

Leper Messiah · Jul 30, 2015

Cmdr Raz said:
Happy to see BT is faster than my ISP

faster speed wise or faster fixing issues?

Cmdr Raz · Jul 30, 2015

Leper Messiah said:
faster speed wise or faster fixing issues?

At fixing issues (I'm sure you can get faster speeds there than in dinky ol' Denmark as well

) - took them nearly a month to get me a new router when the old one needed to be restarted 10-15 a day

Leper Messiah · Jul 30, 2015

Cmdr Raz said:
At fixing issues (I'm sure you can get faster speeds there than in dinky ol' Denmark as well ) - took them nearly a month to get me a new router when the old one needed to be restarted 10-15 a day

Looking at the BT forums many would say it wasn't a fast fix!!

I lost the internet for about a month this time last year when an underground cable had an issue and had to be replaced! Gawd knows how I coped with that!