Took those steps. Didn't work. Made things worse in some cases. Other games networking does work, so I play other games when ED is networking is notworking. Glad it works for you, and pretend it's my fault it doesn't work for me all you want.
..dropping out , I believe its your problem ED, not mine.
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What steps exactly?
That's not necessarily true.
Let's say one (and only one) of Frontier's matchmaking servers has some left over test firewall config on it that blocks connections from IP addresses ending in a 7 [1].
- Some people will never have an issue with this at all
- Some people will experience intermittent issues varying from rare to common depending on how often that server is selected by their client.
- Some people will find that cleaning their router helps (because turning it off and on again reallocates their IP)
- Some people will find that contacting their ISP helps (because one thing they may try is clearing DHCP leases and reallocating the IP)
- Some people will have a permanent unfixable issue (because they're allocated a static IP ending in a 7)
(In this sort of case, making support requests with netlogs is potentially very valuable, as that's the sort of thing which might lead to someone in Support spotting "hey, all this requests involve matchmaking server C, maybe we should rebuild it and see if the problem goes away")
[1] I've deliberately picked an implausible example, but I had to deal with a support request this week which was essentially caused by a more plausible version of the same thing; works for some customers, not for others, was entirely our configuration at fault because a specific type of network rule intended for one scenario had accidentally been applied to another. Easy fix once we'd figured out why half the people on the "what is going on here?" call could replicate it and half couldn't.
G'day all,
I submitted a ticket and was pleasantly surprised with the speed and suggestions by Customer Service to try and solve the problem.
After several days the problem still existed, so I started to have another 'think session' about what at my end could possibly be affecting the speed and causing a drop out
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Then it came to me , a thought, could it be my router? It's about the only link in the Broadband service between the modem and the ethernet cable to my PC.
I removed the router out of the configuration and direct linked to the PC from the modem, and guess what?
Odyssey now works like a charm
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I was wrong, it was not Frontiers fault, don't mind admitting it, it was my fault .. So I humbly apologize.
And thank the support team who were still working on solving the cause when I discovered the fault very early this morning.
Cheers all and thank you all for your comments and suggestions.
Yours Aye
CMDR D38
I submitted a ticket and was pleasantly surprised with the speed and suggestions by Customer Service to try and solve the problem.
After several days the problem still existed, so I started to have another 'think session' about what at my end could possibly be affecting the speed and causing a drop out
.
Then it came to me , a thought, could it be my router? It's about the only link in the Broadband service between the modem and the ethernet cable to my PC.
I removed the router out of the configuration and direct linked to the PC from the modem, and guess what?
Odyssey now works like a charm
.
I was wrong, it was not Frontiers fault, don't mind admitting it, it was my fault .. So I humbly apologize.
And thank the support team who were still working on solving the cause when I discovered the fault very early this morning.
Cheers all and thank you all for your comments and suggestions.
Yours Aye
CMDR D38
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All of the ones in the "port forwarding" thread. Together and separately attempting to get reliable networking in the game. Even trace route seems to come back decent, nothing in it that is different than it would be for Vermintide II, but 5 minutes later I am getting a disconnect. Deleted my block list, all that did was have me look like I was clogging while my opponent rubberbanded around the screen.
In the end, what seems to work best solo, is using a VPN that puts me in NYC. That does not work if you want to play with others though. In fact it makes it worse. ED networking is spotty, that's it. In every place and city I have lived in, (Dallas, Austin, Houston, OKC), on multiple PCs, and multiple internet services, over the last several years. I no longer even care why, and assume a fix is never coming. I am only in this thread because it would annoy me to let white knights run around gaslighting others. Yes, the networking seems to work for some, in certain places, but it is not a uniform experience.
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This game has some of the worst networking of any other. People here have just gotten used to it and so don't complain about it as much, just try to log on again. Even said people need to clean their routers before lol, which doesn't hold up when literally every other network/multiplayer game works fine for them but this one has disconnects.
Give multicrew a try; go ahead, just give it a try
Give multicrew a try; go ahead, just give it a try
not to hijack the thread, but you know, I go in to the settlement with great intentions, have a beer at the bar, say hi to people and then all I get is 'what are you looking at??" "move along" and then the settlement is depopulated and I also have another power regulator...
yeah I decided to stop paying rent that basically buys the hardware several times over and my modem and router are mine now, and I have 0 issues
This game has some of the worst networking of any other. People here have just gotten used to it and so don't complain about it as much, just try to log on again. Even said people need to clean their routers before lol, which doesn't hold up when literally every other network/multiplayer game works fine for them but this one has disconnects.
Give multicrew a try; go ahead, just give it a try
I've done virtual multicrew and physical multicrew many times. A friend and I use one large ship with 2 fighters, take off together and duel head to head.
Quite so - I dont think people realise that their ISP gives them the most cost reduced modem/router they can buy - in many cases the processor of the WiFi chip is left having to handle all the firewall and routing and UI and mostly they are woefully inadequate. This is to save the need for a dedicated processor to handle everything. Add that to the most basic WiFi implementation with printed antennas ( my ISP supplied router has 10x less radiated output power than my ASUS one) and you are just not going to have fun!
So what works best is leaving your ISP network by VPN'ing into another ISP's network, and using their infrastructure to play the game and it works fine, does this give us a hint maybe?
Back when people started using VPNs to get round issues it was found that (most of?) the problems were being caused by packet length issues - so the MTU fix was suggested and that seemed to iron out most of the problematic ISP issues. So have you tried changing your MTU? Is that still in the support FAQs?
If that was not required to reliably play solo through 5 different ISP's in 4 different major cities, on 3 different, modern at the time I was using them, gaming PCs, running current fully updated OS, while every other game I play, with the VPN off, continues to work fine, perhaps it would hint at something other than ED networking being crap.