Severe Post-Maintenance Connection Issues

[bizzum]

Just wonder if anybody else is suffering some of the same issues I have been encountering on a daily basis since the servers were moved and updated a few weeks ago. My ping went up a good 30ms due to the location change, but some of these other issues are making logging in extremely frustrating. I can ping project1999.org and get a solid 90ms with no timeouts, but my ping sits above 115 now in game.

Some of the issues I know see:

- Random 3 minute zone times, sometimes indefinitely loading until I force quit the client. This usually results in a long 1018 error until the character is booted from zoning.

- Timeouts when logging in from the login screen.

- Server list not displaying

- Upon loading into the game, I am told my spellfiles are outdated, and have to relogin.

- Unknown errors when trying to connect to a server from the server list. Usually requires a full client restart to fix.

This is not just a once a day thing or something that happens occasionally, but rather something that happens almost every time I try to log in game, and recently happening on 60% of my zones in the past week. This is all aside from DDoS which was making things worse for everybody.

Just curious if anybody has these issues and if anybody has found any way to alleviate some of these problems.

[Triangle]

Exact same issues. I have experienced every single one of these since the maintenance. I have talked to many others who are in the same boat

[Mistle]

Yes, lots of us having those issues since their last patch. There hasn't been any official acknowledgement of a problem to date.

[parlay1]

Agree I have had those issues as well, thought it had to do with the ddos. I can no longer log into the kunark server with my 4g connection, no problem with pvp server.

[Chrimes]

Mine started out of no where on 11-15-13

[Mortiis]

I'm having the exact same random issues all of a sudden.
It's never the same issue twice when logging in.

Seems like it's worse when more are logged on. .

[Getsmurfed]

This has happened before with the server, it seems to be a problem based on client location in relation to the server. My dad and I live separately, probably about 50 miles apart from each other. Right after the server was relocated the last time we began having issues with this for quite a while. Same exact issues, except we also dropped on zoning about 50% of the time, 40% of the time we would get a 3min load, and 10% it would work as intended. It seemed like the only ones in guild that had the issue were also from Western PA / Eastern Ohio. Different internet providers didn't matter either.

Food for thought, sorry this doesn't help you guys but the issue just seemed to clear itself up randomly. It may have coincided with a server reset, but I'm not entirely positive.

[Swish]

Sounds like you guys need to do a ping test to find out where the trouble is and then report it, but I don't know the server location... anyone got it?

[Benadiel]

I have all the same issues. It never happened before the server relocation, and is entirely independent of ping.

[Nuggets]

Same symptoms. Obviously being experienced by the entire community. Personally to the point of being unplayable unless u plan on staying in one zone on one char for a playing session... If you can battle thru the 10 logins to log on. I'm assuming this is the defense to DDoS. Still an Improvement over that shit, but... frustrated, annoyed, and i'll see you all next weekend.

[quido]

maybe if you stopped 4-boxing you wouldn't have such a hard time connecting

[Nephazz]

Same problem here. I get a level, want to go back to Neriak to buy my next spells and spend the next half hour or longer being locked out after the game is not responding during zoning.

Not multi-boxing or anything. Also, when I just now managed to log in, my character was gone. I hope I will still find my old character when I log in properly. Edit: I did.

[Yapas]

Really wierd, Since Server host changed (except DDOS) it is much better for me (living in France) 100 ms & less crash while zoning

[Pringles]

Hop on a linux box and run mtr (not sure if something similar is available for windows?). Straight up pings arent always helpful


$ mtr -c 100 project1999.org

my.host.name (0.0.0.0) Mon Dec 9 16:53:45 2013
Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit
Packets Pings
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. 192.168.1.1 0.0% 100 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.9 0.1
2. lo0.mar1.slc.xmission.net 7.0% 100 4.0 4.2 3.9 16.1 1.7
3. xe-1-2-0.mar1.slc.xmission.net 0.0% 100 3.9 4.0 3.7 15.0 1.1
4. xe-0-0-3.br1.slc.xmission.net 0.0% 100 3.8 4.4 3.7 37.2 3.8
5. ae0.br2.slc.xmission.net 0.0% 100 4.7 4.9 3.7 33.9 5.0
6. xe-1-1-0.cr2.slc1.us.nlayer.net 0.0% 100 3.8 5.1 3.7 42.3 4.8
7. ae1-30g.cr1.slc1.us.nlayer.net 0.0% 100 4.0 5.6 4.0 46.9 6.8
8. xe-0-3-0.cr1.ord1.us.nlayer.net 0.0% 100 40.2 42.0 39.1 90.3 7.5
9. xe-5-3-0.cr1.ewr1.us.nlayer.net 0.0% 100 56.5 57.2 56.0 94.8 5.5
10. ae1-70g.ar2.ewr1.us.nlayer.net 0.0% 100 57.5 58.6 57.0 62.5 1.5
11. as20473.ae2.ar2.ewr1.us.nlayer.net 0.0% 100 57.5 58.3 57.0 66.7 2.4
12. ethernet1-2-1-c8-12-b2-1.pnj1.choopa.net 0.0% 100 56.9 56.9 56.7 59.7 0.5
13. vl203-cr1.ewr3.choopa.net 0.0% 100 57.9 58.4 56.9 75.4 2.1
14. Rogean.com 0.0% 100 58.0 56.8 56.5 58.0 0.2



And yes my ISP is having some issues atm :)

[Nephazz]

Just a small update, I can't login at all since yesterday. It's a different error almost every time, but mostly timeouts. If I get to the server list at all it just stays empty. I've been playing for two days without a single problem last weekend, and this week I've had many connection issues.

Has there been any word from the admins? With all these threads and posts popping up I think one can exclude ISP problems. Not everyone uses Comcast.

I've been coming back to EQ after over a decade and immediately fell in love with P99, but now it's like someone injected me with crack and won't give any more to me.

[Gulliver]

have been having the exact same issues since server move. ive tried every single known "fix" posted on forums or elsewhere. nothing works or even alleviates it. wineq just slows framerate down in game and still crashes on zoning. game is barely playable just to exp and makes the endgame essentially impossible. wanna log in to kill that dragon that just popped and is dead in 3 minutes? nope, how about we stare at frozen loading screens and 1018 errors... additionally when the client freezes zoning if the game isnt running in windowed mode task manager cant even be brought up to close eqgame and i have to sign out of windows entirely from ctrl alt del window.

[bizzum]

Not to jinx myself, but ever since the end of last weekend these issues seem to have just magically disappeared. Here is to hoping they don't come back! /knockonwood

[Auronis]

Have definitely seen a lot of these on my desktop PC and Macbook, wasn't sure if I was having network/ISP/wireless issues or missing some patch files but I guess I'm ok


- Random 3 minute zone times, sometimes indefinitely loading until I force quit the client. This usually results in a long 1018 error until the character is booted from zoning.

- Timeouts when logging in from the login screen.

- Server list not displaying

- Unknown errors when trying to connect to a server from the server list. Usually requires a full client restart to fix.

This is not just a once a day thing or something that happens occasionally, but rather something that happens almost every time I try to log in game, and recently happening on 60% of my zones in the past week.

Also, when I just now managed to log in, my character was gone. I hope I will still find my old character when I log in properly. Edit: I did.