MephTheLaw
Fledgling Freddie
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- Sep 13, 2008
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I can't be bothered to fully read all that now but, I live in the UK and I use to work for BT, I have both a CCNA and CCNP. I left BT to go to Uni to do a Bsc degree in network security next year.Right I rarely do this but seeing as you've decided to rubbish my comments and then use the whole "I have teh qualifications" line. I'm calling it.
You're talking shit mate. You might live in a country where isp's get to treat their customers like morons and they get no comeback, if that's the case and your experience then you have my sympathy. It doesn't make you qualified in any way whatsoever.
PlusNet | Home & Business Broadband Internet Access & Phone Services UK - register for the forums and click the games forum. That's ONE isp. You'll even find a post from me there (Isquish). FFS Plus aren't even reknowned as a good isp for gamers. I went with trem's recommendation when i got pissed off with nthell and have been paying for it ever since!
It is NOT a server side fix. You and llendl seem to be under this assumption that once traffic leaves your router it's on a straight pipe - point to point direct to goa and everything that goes right must be their fault.
IF, as you say, this is all goa's fault and traffic shaping is not at fault (or not one of the faults) why, am I now unaffected by this issue when I was 10 days ago? I'll give you a hint too, Tuesday last week was the magic day for me. Tuesday was also the day when Plus net finished testing their ellacoya changes and their Q&A authorised the change request to make those changes to their system.
I never said it was firewall/router config based - I think you'll find someone else said that you decided to lump that one on me too in your fit of "I'm qualified" emo rage
Seriously mate - I can understand you're annoyed and want to play and I feel for you. I was pissed when this affected me. I'm advising you to get your isp on the phone and just demand a manager. Keep demanding until you get put through to someone who will talk to their network techies. It "might" not be traffic shaping in your case - if it isn't it WILL be something your ISP have to escalate.
All I'm saying in this is if you want to play the game, I'd follow GOA's advice and talk to your isps. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there's Still an issue with peering in open transit somewhere - god knows they made my daoc life a pain at times. I don't jump on the "Goa/Mythic are shit" bandwagon however. They're not - I've played games supported my much worse mmo companies - SW;G being one and *shudder*neocron*shudder* being another.
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It's not traffic shaping that is effecting it or any fair usage, I've already said why in one of my posts. I didn’t do anything to fix the “auth failed” apart from clearing my war cache which did help and waited patiently for GoA / Mythic to up there fix. And luckily enough I haven’t had it since then.
You ring up any ISP about it, first person won’t have a clue, it will get forwarded and they will “look into it” and they won’t do sweet Fack All about it, they might actually laugh when you tell them the UDP ports.
And afaik Plus net don’t own sweet fack all, they rent it off BT, a bit like an insurance broker that doesn’t insure you but you’re still there customer and support.
Because as someone has said, this is 2008, 80% of routers will block / won't register ICMP packets properly and it’s very out dated way to do a tracert these days.PingPlotter is your friend in tracing any network/connection issues.
Btw if I remember correctly (Might not be the same guy), mgX did a lot of coding on DoL especially server side. So before you and poag start telling him he's full of shit, you might want to pull your head out you're arse. Because he's actually on the right track, unlike most people in this thread.I had authentication failed (application will now exit) and a time out on even logging in to the patcher, before I even started to connect to the sodding authentication program for 4 days after release between the hours of 19:00 and 23:00 uk time. If I managed to get logged in at 18:00 when I got home and stay logged in I would be able to play without any issues whatsoever
Both of those issues disappeared once my isp made the changes to ellacoya as linked here.
Yeah - I'd say that means it's goa's fault
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