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US player travelling in the UK. From England, I get constant server disconnects. Can go several turns just fine, then the client will freeze (not hang) and about a minute later I'll see that the server timed me out due to a disconnect, then the event will continue. Sometimes I can go an entire event with it only happening once or twice. Others, it's nearly every other turn.

I do speed tests when this happens: no issues. Also no issues with VPNing into my employer's network, RDP, streaming, etc. Only in DW am I seeing these connection interruptions.

Since I'm a US player, is it having to go there and back? (Around the world to cross the street?) Does my US Steam client need some tweaking?

I assumed due to the server date/time that it's here in the UK? Seems like my connection would be better not worse.

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Posted Dec 23, 2022, 11:11 am

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If I "ping darkwind.com", I get:

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Reply from 69.12.69.5: TTL expired in transit.
Request timed out.

"tracert darkwind.com" shows a loop:

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12 136 ms 137 ms 136 ms 66.212.24.5.static.quadranet.com [66.212.24.5]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 212 ms 218 ms 213 ms xe-4-5-1-2.a03.lsanca07.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [157.238.179.145]
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 217 ms 216 ms 215 ms 38.104.82.222
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 217 ms 216 ms 218 ms 66.212.24.5.static.quadranet.com [66.212.24.5]
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 288 ms 293 ms 289 ms xe-4-5-1-2.a03.lsanca07.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [157.238.179.145]
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 288 ms 284 ms 285 ms 38.104.82.222
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 285 ms 283 ms 284 ms 66.212.24.5.static.quadranet.com [66.212.24.5]

Even if I extend the hop limit with "ping darkwind.com -i 100", I get:

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Pinging darkwind.com [107.161.95.118] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 69.12.69.108: TTL expired in transit.
Reply from 69.12.69.108: TTL expired in transit.
Reply from 69.12.69.108: TTL expired in transit.
Reply from 69.12.69.108: TTL expired in transit.

So, looks like a route loop between quadranet.com and ntt.net. Nothing I can control.

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Posted Dec 28, 2022, 12:24 pm

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What does netstat -a -b come back as ?

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Posted Dec 28, 2022, 4:02 pm	Last edited Dec 28, 2022, 4:03 pm by Necrotech

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Ignore all that. I apparently suck at troubleshooting. First, up there I was testing against "darkwind.com", not "dark-wind.com". Second, I have an adaptive wireless adapter and when I thought I was testing the 2.4 band, it was switching over to 5 anyway. Once I forced it to 2.4, the problem went away.

Nothing to see here...

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Posted Jan 2, 2023, 11:27 am