Conenction Problems doing my head in.

[-=KOF=-IVirusI]

today, i logged on battlefield ready to get loads of points as im due promotion. Log into a 64 man karkand server and play quite well, until theres a connection problem and all those points gone. Then i go and go back into it and play for 5 minutes whats happens then!, you guessed it, connection problem and server fooks up. I then go into another server and guess what happens (when im winning as commander), connection problems. More servers than not are lying empty, including the =KOF=-server which is never running more than 5 hours without everyone crashing out. Total waste of time and haven't had one decent round of bf2 today. ( servers that i play in never done this until this 1.3 ****e)

I say Dice need to get there act together very quickly because the connection problem is getting BEYOND A JOKE.

You pay 30 quid for the game plus (some people) well over a 100 pounds for upgrades for the game to be not working right, server crashes and desktop crashes). It aint fair on the server owners either.

Any other views on this?

Rant over/ :cry:

[WetPatch]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

Ive been getting the same thing for the past 2 weeks, it usually happens when im having a good round or in a good squad, its realy starting to do my head in.

[sgtsam150892]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

Yep. i know the frustration ur going through. I get it all the time like i had it 3 times in 1 hour so i quit and went onto lockon for a while.
But yeah it is doing my head in alot to.

[MSG_USAR_Ret]

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I have my high-speed internet-connection through Time-Warner cable, Earthlink. When the computer was in my sons room we had almost nothing in the way of connectivity problems because there was no splitter involved. Andrew decided that he didn't want the computer in his room and we moved it into mine. Unfortunately, there is now a splitter with one cable going to the cable-box attached to my TV and the other going to, of course, the cable-modem box attached to my computer. Was constantly getting disconnected and when I wasn't the lag was terrible. (My K/D ratio promptly went to hell-in-a-hand-basket).

I spoke to the I.T. guy at work, Bill, who maintains our computers and asked him what I could do. He said that he'd had the same problem. He tried to work through Time-Warner to fix it w/o results. Finally, he broke down and bought his own cable-modem box. "The cable-modem boxes that T-W provides are cheap ones not designed to work with a splitter," he said. "Buy either a motorola or d-link brand." I did that and--viola!--problem solved! _Instantly_ I had nothing in the way of connectivity-problems (from my end) and lag was reduced to almost zero. Now if I could just win that lottery...

[{TKM}MiK]

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Happens to me and my clan constantly if its not a ctd its a connection prob then the server dies its total bs a fix should have been issued within days of this patch, they have to put back in squad hopping too it was waste of time takeing it out, but alas were wasteing our breath sounds like 1.4 beta isnt up to much too im ready to give up on this madness like 80% of my clan already has....

[Blades]

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Its ****ing ridiculous. You pay loads of money to keep a server up, and you the stupid game doesnt even let you keep it up for more than 6 hours. The server crashes are absolutely ridiculous. It makes playing harder for everyone. EA and DICE need to get off their lazy ****ing *** and fix this stupid **** with a ****ing hotfix!!

[914 motob]

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Happens at least once each night I play. I'm just an average player, but when my connection is lost I sometimes feel that someone did it to me on purpose. Kinda like a kick... but this feels more like a kick in the nuts!

[debap]

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OK GUYS. Hey, I'm new to the forums but I always check this place out I LOVE IT. Anyways I'm 100% on how to fix the CTD "Connection Problem" Well here I go. First try Manually updating punk buster. www.punkbuster.com. 2nd Delete everything in you'r battlefield CACHE file under "My Documents". 3rd (And most important) MTU! I dont know exactly how this works but I've fixed over 46 of my friend's pc's with connection problem issues with this method

1st. go to you'r start menu and under the "run" program type "cmd"
this will open DOS.
2nd. type ping www.google.com -f -l 1500
if you get an error that sais ur packet need to be fragmented and get
100% packet loss then lower the "1500" 10 pts down ex: 1490, 1480,
etc...
3rd. once you get you'r MTU number where you get 0% packet loss you need to install this small app called Dr. TCP or TCP Doctor, I'm at work and cant verify it but once I get home i'll let you know the exact name of the program. Once thats installed you need to go to dslreports.com and find out the 1st number of dr. tcp (i also forgot the name) also you need to enter the MTU size you got from DOS. THAT SHOULD COMPLETELY fix your problem. remember MTU size's change from time to time so you have to continuously check for your MTU size even if you get connection problems again. and remember if you guys use ventrilo if lets say 1 person in that ventrilo server has a connection problem (bad MTU #) you get it too. and until that person fixes it, you wont be able to play in the same ventrilo / game server.

i hope this helps as it has helped me greately, i also got extremely frustrated. but instead of re-installing i said F*ck this im going to find an answer if Dice wont do it, **** ill do it myself!!! GOOD LUCK GUYS PM OR EMAIL me if you find this helpful. once again when i get home ill re-verify everything GOOD LUCK!

[Blades]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

Connection Problems are server side, so a client fix wont do anything.

That may help CTDs though.

[hebrewhammer14]

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Its ****ing ridiculous. You pay loads of money to keep a server up, and you the stupid game doesnt even let you keep it up for more than 6 hours. The server crashes are absolutely ridiculous. It makes playing harder for everyone. EA and DICE need to get off their lazy ****ing *** and fix this stupid **** with a ****ing hotfix!!

they should have been chained to their desks the minute the 1st server crashed with 10 lashes for every day they went without fixing the CTDs, server crashes, and red name bug

[-=KOF=-IVirusI]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

yep, its DICE'S fault, nothing to do with your computer..... A fix is needed pronto

[hebrewhammer14]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

when 50 % of people that post on forums (id say more but id like to keep the flaming to a min) complain of CTDs at the EXACT SAME MOMENT, pressing join game, its NOT the users pc, its the game. As for the server crashes, how is it possibly our fault, maybe all the servers that people rent are screwed up (1000+)? No its DICE and the sh*t they pile into stores disguised as a game

[sknight]

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We're talking about "connection problems" here. Not CTDs. Connection problems can happen when you unplug your ethernet cable, it's not just server side.

Edit: just want to say, i'm not saying that the the OP is having client connection problems...i'm just sayin' is all

[hebrewhammer14]

Re: Conenction Problems doing my head in.

allright, granted lag is usually the players fault, but im talking about CRASHES, which are due to 1.3, lag is a player deal (and rarely server) as it has always been and is in most game

[debap]

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thats what you think! but it's really MTU, trust me on this one. I tought the same exact way.. that its a server side issue. the problem is that MOST (ALL) games change your mtu for you. BF2 DOES NOT... so when your sending too many packets to the server; the server stops sending packets to you, hence CONNECTION PROBLEM. the reason servers crash is because TOO MANY PPL have a huge MTU size. So the server dosent know what the hell is going on so it does what every server does when it dosent know what to do CRASH! Trust me ive analyzed this front and back! As we speek im sending an email out to Dice / EA. Hopefully the respond is "in patch 1.4 we have addressed this issue" but I highly doubt it. So like I was saying this is the problem, server overload well.. the thing is that since this game is coded so sh!tty you know how sometimes you get corrupt packets well now imagine if your sending out over 1500+ more packets and 500 of does packets are packet/ loss / corrupt. what do you honestly think is going to hapen if each player or 10 players of a 64 man server. Yea you guessed it CRASH! so what we all can do is take the time out and check your MTU you will be surprised! I bet half of you have too high of a MTU size. I know for sure 46 of my friends did, 47 including myself.

And I bet anyone can crash a server with this method. I bet if I set my MTU to something rediculous like 5000.. you guessed it CRASH! lol, now imagine if 10 people do this. yeapp.... I think you get the idea .