Random Disconnects on Random clients?

[Jubber]

Anyone have any issues with random disconnects recently. Over the past week I have noticed that some of my clients will just disconnect. As an example I was recently farming for netherwing rep when 2 of my guys disconnected.. no problem I relog them in, they are still in group so I reset my focus and keep going. about 15-20 mins later 3 of my guys get disconnected.. 2 new ones and 1 of the guys that was disconnected before..

Rarely do all 5 disconnect together, and I only say its random cuz I can be playing for hours or minutes and it just happens. I am usually able to get back in fast enough where the server hasn't realised I am disconnected cuz I am still in group.. It's just annoying though.

[Coltimar]

I had this issue. Mine was a corrupted patch. I had to totally reinstall the game from scratch. I actually recommend this from time to time. I run as smooth as silk now, with no problems.

[Jubber]

Yeah, I've done both. More of an annoyance really. Just wondering if other folks get it too. Only time it's a pain is when my tank acct gets disconnected which in itself is more rare than the other 4 clients. However its a guaranteed wipe if I am in an instance. lol.

I have 3 manned an encounter before, that was fun. Typical badge farming session and then "hey where did 2 and 5 go. damn!" lol.

[alcattle]

Couple things come to mind. Hareware probably won't cause it but how is your RAM usage?
More likely, Are you using or does your Router have Wireless access? Someone might be stealing your Inet. I turned wireless off and the latancy went way down, from RED to green.

[Jubber]

Haven't ran unleaded yet as the problem just started recently and not all my clients are affected. I have my WoW folders symlinked. Don't use wireless anymore. I run 8 gigs of ram on vista64. Nothing noticeably wrong there.

Again more just curious to see if anyone else experienced something similiar. Until it starts to happen more often and in a more predictable fashion I am not too worried about it.

[alcattle]

Haven't ran unleaded yet as the problem just started recently and not all my clients are affected. I have my WoW folders symlinked. Don't use wireless anymore. I run 8 gigs of ram on vista64. Nothing noticeably wrong there.

Again more just curious to see if anyone else experienced something similiar. Until it starts to happen more often and in a more predictable fashion I am not too worried about it.
When it does happen, check your latency on the toons still running. Might be a clue

[Jubber]

I will keep an eye on that when it happens again.

[Bettysue]

Do you use a Belkin router, I have an N+ and there are numerous complaints about disconnects and random periods of major lag. I updated the firmware and flushed DNS and release/renewed the WAN IP, now I'm running pretty smoothly. I figured out it was the router when using google talk to talk to my wife in the states, it would drop speech ability but not the connection entirely for about 3-5 secs, something like 1 or 2 times every 15min.

[Coltimar]

I'm telling ya', I had the same problem. I had to start WoW totally fresh, with no addons. Then I added them back one at a time. I spent 4 days working on it. I STILL have an open ticket with Blizzard.

[Jubber]

Ewww Coltimar.. Hopefully its not the same thing.. lol. Bettysue I have a linksys router and I am not completely disconnected from the internet or all my clients. So far the most has been 3 of my 5 clients have dropped. It's not always the same client either. Although I have noticed my main has only dropped twice as opposed to the rest of my guys.
I still continue to play on the other clients to finish up whatever I am doing and can usually log the disconnected toons back before WoW even notices my guys are gone. Unless of course I am in an instance in which case I just try to tough it out until I am in a safe position or wipe whatever comes first. Luckily i have only wiped twice due to my main being disconnected.
It was just strange that is just very recently started. No patches or updates that I have noticed for wow or my system.

[Coltimar]

Also, run the repair.exe utility.. it'll refresh and corrupt files.

This didn't fix mine. It kept saying all files are just swell!

[alcattle]

Is WoW crashing or just disconnects?

[Jubber]

It's disconnecting. I get the "you have been disconnected from the server" message. So then I just log whichever one got disconnected back in. Reset my focus. and keep doing what I am doing.

[alcattle]

What about the latancy?

[bigbigDummy]

Jubber,

Have you added any new hardware at all to your system since this started happening? Maybe try disconnecting some of your USB peripherals before starting your comp. I had a similar issue when I was playing a single toon, and it all came down to my semi-new printer was somehow causing it, and other headaches as well.

Sounds weird, I know, but might be worth a try.

[Jubber]

No new hardware or software added to my system recently either. Sorry alcattle, I played 3 hours last night and it didn't happen so I wasn't able to check my latency at time of disconnect. All my clients currently sit between 65ms-79ms currently while farming netherwing ledge. Like I said it, it just started about a week ago and it's been fairly random.

Thanks everyone for the replies. Due to the random nature and how recent this started I wasn't really expecting to find a solution although there have been some great replies and troubleshooting tips. I was really just curious to see if it was happening to anyone else.

[bigbigDummy]

Yeah, most of the issues I find that I have with WoW end up mysteriously getting fixed in the next patch. Strange how that works out sometimes.

I think my next step would be to swap out routers/modems if you have any extra. (Sorry if this was already said.)

[outdrsyguy1]

I have a similar problem, except all of my clients drop at the same time and my pc loses connection with the router. I have to completely reboot to get back online. That solves the issue for about 1 to 3 hours. It seems random but anywhere between 30 minutes to 4 hours i always totally dc. It makes instances a real pain at times. I usually end up rebooting 4+ times a night :(
I run vista 64 and I swear this problem just started within the last few weeks (hard for me to remember exactly when).
I turned on the port forwarding, turned off vista's ability to sleep the router, and also changed some flag in the command prompt to disable vista being able to cut the connection due to large packet and data transfer. None of it seemed to make any difference. I tried updating the firmware on the router but it's already up to date. It's a 2wire that was given to me by AT&T (our dsl provider). All my other pcs stay online and work fine but this new vista machine just totally disconnects without any explanation.
I've only had it happen while 5 boxing wows (software). I used to run 5 wows on this machine with xp 32 bit and this never happened either.
I tried repair on wow1 and it didn't find anything, i'll try it on wow2,3,4,5 folders later today.

any suggestions?

[Jubber]

Wow. outdrsyguy1 that sucks. My issue is no where near that severe.

[outdrsyguy1]

hmm... i just stayed online for like 5 hours straight with plain wow no addons. I guess i'll update my addons to the super very latesst and try turning them on one at a time. crazy that a wow addon might possibly be the culprit of disconnecting my pc from the router lol

[Bettysue]

WoW has a spam filter if you flood a channel with messages you'll be disconnected. This happens with any of the channels, including the addon only and hidden channels. So it is quite possible for an addon to cause a disconnection problem. Completely killing the router is a different thing though.
Jamba has disconnected me when I mistakenly spammed the heck out of the update FTL macro in the Jambadev version. I've also had it happen with a quest sharing addon (can't for the life of me remeber what it was called) that didn't throttle the shares.

BTW what is it you did in vista to diable the router sleep and large packet problem? I've been looking for a way to do that for a while.