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ms   04-19-2005 at 10:02:58 AM

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When playing Desert Combat final I get about 20 minutes into the game
and I get "Connection problem detected" and am dumped back to the
options screen. My ADSL connection is then dead for about 5 minutes
before coming right by itself. I have no connection problems on the net
in general, only when playing DC. Everything has been fine up until
recently, i'm not sure if i've changed settings without realising it.
Am using Punkbuster on PB servers with everything up to date.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks
MS

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bug   04-20-2005 at 04:42:54 AM
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Archived from groups: alt.games.battlefield1942 (More info?)

 

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:32:08 -0400, Colonel_Flagg
<colonel_flagg@_NOSOUPFORJ00_internetwarzone.org> wrote:

>In article <42650bd2$1_2@newspeer2.tds.net>, jafiwam@MuNGEDyahoo.com
[snip...snip...]
>> Also, if your ping shows it truely is your connection, biatch to your DSL
>> provider or look for network problems in your house. There is NOTHING BF
>> can do to a DSL connection to make it choke so it must be something else
>> then.
>
>
>yea, sounds like a time-out with the DSL provider. use something like
>he's described above, which is a "Keep Alive". that, or... check your
>Internet Connection settings for an advanced setting that "disconnects"
>you after X amount of inactivity, which is a setting in the standard
>window's connection settings.

A handy tool to check DSL connectivity problems is PingPlotter
http://www.pingplotter.com/. They have an older version that is
freeware, and the commercial version isn't too pricey.

We used this locally to demonstrate to the DSL provider that the
occasional connectivity losses we were experiencing in the region were
occurring to many users simultaneously -- thus proving to them that the
stand-by Windows cures of shutdown/reboot and uninstall/reboot/
reinstall/reboot weren't necessary (at least on the users' machines).
Turns out that the problem was a software glitch on one of the ISP's
mid-level traffic switches.

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ms   04-20-2005 at 11:42:52 AM
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Archived from groups: alt.games.battlefield1942 (More info?)

 

Thanks for all the replies, i'll try the alt-tab gig and have a look at
possible connectivity issues.

Thanks again

MS

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