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insomnia

13 Jan, 2013 @ 7:01pm

Any tips for red plug disconnect?

I know UWE is still suppose to be working on a fix (?) but I just want to play. Any tricks or hacks on how to fix this? One person said create a server and leave it, not sure that works for me but maybe there's other stuff out there.

Basically, any time I join a server after about 10-30s I get the red plug disconnect icon. If I wait long enough it'll boot me back into the menu and say "Timeout". Thanks

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› |2es-)!(- has Natural Selection 2

13 Jan, 2013 @ 7:47pm

Did you try disabling your firewall/antivirus to see if that's the issue?

Did you try resetting or bypassing your router to see if that's the problem?

90% of the time those are the causes for what you described.

insomnia

13 Jan, 2013 @ 10:00pm

Yes, ports and firewall are set. Thanks

insomnia

13 Jan, 2013 @ 10:44pm

INTERESTING...a computer on my network was downloading torrents. I killed uTorrent, and now I've been playing for an hour for fine. Could that be related?

[HKG]hkwh01 has Natural Selection 2

13 Jan, 2013 @ 11:10pm

BT AV? better not to do this while playing, if using an old router, torrent will make disconnect sometimes.

Slaughterer has Natural Selection 2

14 Jan, 2013 @ 12:12am

utorrent is trash, it causes numerous network problems, crashes routers and overall downloads slower on the same swarms AND takes longer to reach a proper download speed after starting the torrent.

Avoid it like it's the bubonic plague. I personally use azureus/vuze but as long as you don't use bitcomet or bitlord every other client should be fine.

Vitdom

14 Jan, 2013 @ 3:58am

Originally posted by insomnia:
INTERESTING...a computer on my network was downloading torrents. I killed uTorrent, and now I've been playing for an hour for fine. Could that be related?

Originally posted by >> Pure Phoenix >>:
utorrent is trash, it causes numerous network problems, crashes routers and overall downloads slower on the same swarms AND takes longer to reach a proper download speed after starting the torrent.

Avoid it like it's the bubonic plague. I personally use azureus/vuze but as long as you don't use bitcomet or bitlord every other client should be fine.

I use Vuze and when I am downloading large files from big swarms in maximum speeds, it happens to me as well sometimes, even though I am routerless(my ISP is required by law and contract not to throttle/block except for the agreed speed limit), but it doesn't happen in NS2. :o I am guessing that I am overflooding my connection by exceeding the cap on the throughput 30/30 Mbps. So I put a soft-limit target at 90% in Vuze and it seems to work now; perhaps uTorrent is improperly configured as well?

The combination is probably the cause though.

Last edited by Vitdom; 14 Jan, 2013 @ 4:05am

Slaughterer has Natural Selection 2

14 Jan, 2013 @ 7:54pm

Lol trying to run torrents at 100% AND play the game will always give you an increased ping.
Especially with DSL technology where your download speed drops as your upload speed is utilised and vice versa.