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Nilrem · 23-03-2006, 00:10

Hi

Assuming your STB isn't locking up...

This sounds like a problem my brother had with Warcraft when I changed router (went from a linksys BEFSX41to a linksys WRT54GS), except in that case the other machines could still use the internet, just the machine running the WOW client had problems.

I can't remember if the PC playing WOW lost all internet connectivity requiring a reboot or ipconfig /release (then /renew) or if it was just the client i'm afraid (but i'm thinking it was all internet connectivity on the machine).
It turned out to be something to do with a patch WOW implimented causing problems for certain hardware/driver combo's, one of which was the broadcom chip (I think) used in the WRT54GS with the driver used in most versions of it's firmware (prior to the patch people hadn't had problems with the router and WOW).

If you've tried two NIC's are they using different base chips? (a lot tend to use the same ones, usually realtek or similar).
If they aren't, then swapping the NIC out won't make much difference if it's a driver issue as they will still be using the same drivers.

I've also encountered a similar problem with Ultima Online and Marvel 10/100/1000 NIC's in the past, with almost the same sort of symptons, after an indeterminate length of time (anything from 5 seconds to 10 minutes), the client would act as if it had stopped communicating with the servers, but wouldn't go "connection lost".
In that case it took a couple of months for a new driver to be released for the chip that solved the problem - the odd thing was that it only seemed to affect people when they played on their nearest servers (I for example couldn't play on the EU servers, but could on the U.S. ones, whilst U.S. players had the opposite problem).

Sorry if that's not any help, but hopefully it might give some clues.

23-03-2006, 00:10	#8
Nilrem Inactive Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 160	Re: World of Warcraft + ntl Hi Assuming your STB isn't locking up... This sounds like a problem my brother had with Warcraft when I changed router (went from a linksys BEFSX41to a linksys WRT54GS), except in that case the other machines could still use the internet, just the machine running the WOW client had problems. I can't remember if the PC playing WOW lost all internet connectivity requiring a reboot or ipconfig /release (then /renew) or if it was just the client i'm afraid (but i'm thinking it was all internet connectivity on the machine). It turned out to be something to do with a patch WOW implimented causing problems for certain hardware/driver combo's, one of which was the broadcom chip (I think) used in the WRT54GS with the driver used in most versions of it's firmware (prior to the patch people hadn't had problems with the router and WOW). If you've tried two NIC's are they using different base chips? (a lot tend to use the same ones, usually realtek or similar). If they aren't, then swapping the NIC out won't make much difference if it's a driver issue as they will still be using the same drivers. I've also encountered a similar problem with Ultima Online and Marvel 10/100/1000 NIC's in the past, with almost the same sort of symptons, after an indeterminate length of time (anything from 5 seconds to 10 minutes), the client would act as if it had stopped communicating with the servers, but wouldn't go "connection lost". In that case it took a couple of months for a new driver to be released for the chip that solved the problem - the odd thing was that it only seemed to affect people when they played on their nearest servers (I for example couldn't play on the EU servers, but could on the U.S. ones, whilst U.S. players had the opposite problem). Sorry if that's not any help, but hopefully it might give some clues.