Severe Post-Maintenance Connection Issues

[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 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[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

Originally Posted by bizzum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

- 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.

Originally Posted by Nephazz [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.