The Hidden Forest

Hi all,
I have had this problem with both the SoD client and Underfoot clients. I will 30-40% of the time have my client "hang" when zoning. I eventually have to close the program, which does not give any indication that it crashed.

The clients do not crash, as in getting a C++ error. It just sits and never loads the zone. This even happens when I am at the character select screen, and click "Enter World".

It does not matter which login server I use.

It just feels like I am getting disconnected from the server for some reason.

ANY suggestions are welcome.

Bareth

shutdown your p2p proggies

I'm going to sound like a fool but I don't think I have any Peer to Peer programs running, or even installed. I have McAfee Antivirus but I don't know if that would be classified as peer to peer.

And thank you for taking the time to respond

its a known issue with the SoD+ clients. Occasionally they will take forever while zoning into some specific zones. Before, the server would boot the clients out after 2 minutes of waiting for an appropriate response, but I changed the server to allow up to 4 minutes before booting the client to help people who did not want to have to constantly relog their characters back in.

If you are getting this, just let them sit there for a few minutes, 95% of the time they will zone fine, it just takes awhile longer than normal due to the clients.

I figured I would post this because it might help with others that have had the same problem as I did.

While all the client hangs that lead to crashes was going on, I took notice my overall internet connection was not as fast as I thought it should be. During the evening hours, I could not even watch Youtube videos because they would constantly stop every 5 seconds to buffer. I chalked it up to network saturation on my ISP's part during peak hours.

Well about 2 weeks ago, I had enough, I would crash with only one client running every time I zoned, and forget about web browsing, it was horrid. So I did a speed test from both my ISP and speedtest.net and I was pretty upset at what my results were indicating.

My Internet package via cable modem, is 5 meg download, with only 384K upload (they are really stingy with their upload speeds) but when I ran the speed test, it was showing my download speed barely above a meg, and the upload speeds sometimes would not register they were so slow. Not to mention the packet loss was ungodly bad.

I called up my ISP and they sent a tech out with a new cable modem, and since then my connection is what its advertised at, 5Meg download, and 384K upload. I can run 5 clients, and still have streaming video running in the background without a hiccup.

For the past two weeks, I have yet to have a client hang then crash. Such a beautiful thing.

Anyway I wanted to share with you guys how this ended up for me.

-Barath

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