lamster
01-06-2010, 01:05 AM
This is a cross-post from cherullo on the Steam forums:
*** RESOLUTION FOR D-LINK ROUTERS ONLY ***
Hi guys,
Since I bought this game I had a lot of connection problems. Basically I'd connect to a server, stay around for a few seconds and then get kicked with a ping of ~1500ms.
So I stated to google around for answers, and found that a lot of people are having the same problem.
The first advice I found to diagnose the problem was to do a infinite ping to www.google.com while playing the game, and check if a packet was lost when the disconnection happened. It was so happening, and I turned my attention to my D-Link DI-524 (aka. DSL-2640) wireless ADSL router (by the way, I'm using a wired connection).
So I logged into the router's administration web interface and started to look around. Checking the logs (go to the Status tab and click on the Log button in the left bar) I found a gazillion entries saying:
"No match for source MAC Address :"
Followed by an unknown MAC Address (its some pairs of numbers separated by colons). After looking a while for the cause of these messages, I discovered that disabling something called "Bridge Filters" (Advanced tab, Bridge Filters on the left) made these messages go away, and lo and behold, I didn't get disconnected from Altitude anymore! Somehow this feature was gunking the router and making it lose some packets after a while.
I didn't explicitly enable this feature when I configured the router, it was enabled by default, so I sincerely don't know what it does but everything else is working fine.
As long as you don't save the router's configuration, any changes can be easily rolled back just by turning it off and on again, so trying this out should be pretty much risk-free.
If you don't know how to get into the router's admin interface, ask who set it up for you - you'll need some information that's specific to your setup and I can't help you there.
Cheers,
cherullo
*** RESOLUTION FOR D-LINK ROUTERS ONLY ***
Hi guys,
Since I bought this game I had a lot of connection problems. Basically I'd connect to a server, stay around for a few seconds and then get kicked with a ping of ~1500ms.
So I stated to google around for answers, and found that a lot of people are having the same problem.
The first advice I found to diagnose the problem was to do a infinite ping to www.google.com while playing the game, and check if a packet was lost when the disconnection happened. It was so happening, and I turned my attention to my D-Link DI-524 (aka. DSL-2640) wireless ADSL router (by the way, I'm using a wired connection).
So I logged into the router's administration web interface and started to look around. Checking the logs (go to the Status tab and click on the Log button in the left bar) I found a gazillion entries saying:
"No match for source MAC Address :"
Followed by an unknown MAC Address (its some pairs of numbers separated by colons). After looking a while for the cause of these messages, I discovered that disabling something called "Bridge Filters" (Advanced tab, Bridge Filters on the left) made these messages go away, and lo and behold, I didn't get disconnected from Altitude anymore! Somehow this feature was gunking the router and making it lose some packets after a while.
I didn't explicitly enable this feature when I configured the router, it was enabled by default, so I sincerely don't know what it does but everything else is working fine.
As long as you don't save the router's configuration, any changes can be easily rolled back just by turning it off and on again, so trying this out should be pretty much risk-free.
If you don't know how to get into the router's admin interface, ask who set it up for you - you'll need some information that's specific to your setup and I can't help you there.
Cheers,
cherullo
Phenoca
01-10-2010, 12:48 AM
This one did it for me: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/ethernet.html#ethernet
Half-duplex mode on my modem.
Edit: I think it was actually playing on a no-max-ping server.
But I haven't had issues since port-forwarding, so that may have done the trick!
Half-duplex mode on my modem.
Edit: I think it was actually playing on a no-max-ping server.
But I haven't had issues since port-forwarding, so that may have done the trick!
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