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Originally Posted by EvilJeff
Looks like the thin end of the wedge !!!!
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Prophetic words
It has now started on Cable.
I started having problems getting dissconnected from Flyff on Thursday evening. Using Ping Plotter I discovered the connection to the server is being blocked for approx 10-15 minutes about every 70 minutes. This makes the game almost un-playable since you lose about an hours experience by being killed when unexpectedly dissconnected.
Tehnical support did their best and advised me to connect my cable modem directly to my PC (standard answer). which strangely works! no more dropouts!
Problem is my daughter also plays the game, so a single PC isn't much use.
I thought maybe I need a new router, but before committing myself to wasted expenditure asked a friend who also has Virgin cable to try with his home setup (also using a router). Lo and behold... exactly the same blocking at exactly the same times! We both use different makes of router, so not likely to be a design issue.
Also the blocking starts third hop in at an NTL IP address.
I know it isn't the game servers going down since I chat with my brother using voip while playing and he has no problems (Since he switched from Virgin ADSL to BT).
I would be gratefull if anyone could try running a ping plot to 64.147.162.103 (the games login server) for several hours and let me know if they experience these mysterious dropouts, especially if you are in the Swansea area.
I'd like to get to the bottom of this, since I really don't want to say goodbye to Virgin, who have provided a reliable service for many years.