Consistant Disconnection from Wow server

[KapitiCoaster]

Good evening fellow boxers
I have a question relating to consistant server disconnections. Whilst this is nothing new to Wow, I have noticed the increased frequency by which I have been removed from the gameplay - both in PVP BG and notably from this week, also in City areas (e.g. out of combat).

The nature of the disconnection means all 5 instances of the game need to log back into gameplay only to suspend at the Connecting screen for a period of time then receiving "Disconnection from the server" message -

All other internet activities are uneffected - I am able to log into Everquest, Aion as game examples or Firefox myself to youtube or other general browsing. Other PC's in the household are able to remain active with the Web (not built for Wow gameplay thou).
Disconnecting the modem and reconnecting does not allow a fresh Wow gameplay connect.

This log-in process can be repeated several times with a similar inability to connect to Wow gameplay - only a FULL reboot of the PC will allow connection back into Wow. I am using Keyclone (and have enjoyed for many years now) so even attempting to log-in without this tools assistance does not remedy the situation.

The only add-on's used are Jamba (thank you Kiwi), Healbot and Miks.

Before I posted on the Blizzard forum I was trusting that some solid words of wisdom could help out my problem.
Many thanks for any assistance and guidance
Tim

[Khatovar]

According to chatter in /2 WoW has been having issues the last few days. People have been complaining of lag across WoW and Diablo, there's been glitches with RealID, the reporting system was totally busted at one point and things like that. First thing is disable your addons and make sure it's not addon related. If it's not addons {and seriously, test it, don't just say it's not addons because they didn't cause problems before or because no one else is reporting addon issues. Not that you would, but you'd be surprised how often I see that} then go look at the WoW forums for other people reporting disconnects.

With all the complaints I've been hearing, there's bound to be a few posts up that mirror your disconnect issue.

[JohnGabriel]

I've been running into lag and disconnects as well. Its off and on though, I could wait out the problems.

[KapitiCoaster]

Thanks for the current replies -
I have re-installed a new clean copy of Wow as a test bed - played a single character in and out of combat situations (included 2 BG's) with no issues for over 3 hours.
Loaded up the five toons (keyclone only) and had to wait no longer then 10 minutes as the disconnections resumed -
I agree with JohnGabriel that its a process of waiting out the errors and with your comment Khatovar, as there are mutilple posts relating to the growing erros Blizzard as encountered lately.
Other thoughts and contributions would be most welcome
Tim

[shadewalker]

Not sure if it helps or not but I had some disconnects in the last week while fighting keristrasza in the nexus. I would have 3 of 5 clients disconect. It happened 3-4 times in a row in the middle of the fight. After I logged out for a few minutes I was able to finish the fight without any problems. It seemed a bit odd to me

[candlebox]

From the grapevine I have heard that Blizzard has been running the MoP betas on the Cata servers.

I have no solid proof of this, but it has been a recent issue for everyone. It would make sense if blizzard was preloading and testing on the actual servers before release. That and half the community is playing the beta so they had to put it somewhere.

Like I said, Grapevine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs--phzj2TQ

there you go

[Apps]

+1 with Khat.

Ive been dropped a handful of times on random accounts. 2 main clues that indicate its not me, or my ISP.

1. I see only one client window of 5 get disconnected.
2. Upon the second DC I did all the normal, trace, ping, iproute, speed check, unplug router go direct link, etc etc tests, and came up with nothing. Absolutely nothing.


I see this sort of thing every so often from Blizzard since 2004.

[MiRai]

From the grapevine I have heard that Blizzard has been running the MoP betas on the Cata servers.
Even if they are, I doubt that would affect much of anything. For example, let's say there are 2 million people in beta. That doesn't mean that there are 2 million more people bogging down the servers. They would all have to be logged into their Cata account and their MoP beta account at the same time (which isn't likely). You also have to remember, that there were 12 million people playing on these same servers at this point which is 1.8 million more than currently play. I'm sure the servers can handle the extra stress of the MoP beta if it is indeed true.

I, for one, haven't experienced any lag myself. If I did experience any lag, I would run a traceroute (like it says on Blizzard's FAQ) and then look at the Internet Health Report (http://www.internetpulse.net/) for any possible latency problems. Just the other day I was screwing around on a server in the NYC data center and I had a ridiculous amount of lag. A traceroute showed that I was timing out on my way to the data center and the IHR showed there was high latency in Pittsburgh which meant neither I nor Blizzard was at fault. Once Pittsburgh was clear, I had no more lag -- It's amazing how that works. I don't know if there's something like that for EU but, I might try this site (http://www.internettrafficreport.com/).

A lot of people (just people in general) at times complain about their latency to Blizzard's servers and they state that since they pay X amount of dollars for the best internet speed that Y company provides, they know for a fact that it's not their internet because websites load just fine and it must be Blizzard's fault. What an ignorant statement. Most people have no idea that there are numerous ISPs between their house and Blizzard's servers that their data passes through which could potentially be the problem. I'll bet most of them think that after their internet line leaves their house that it goes directly to the data center in one straight path. /rant

The other culprit could be a shitty (or dying) router that gets overloaded or drops packets. I realize you said it doesn't happen in other games but, that doesn't exactly mean much. World of Warcraft is its own game which sends and receives its own data. I'm sure it operates similar to other games in the sense that "it sends and receives data" but, I wouldn't say that because other games, which use their own methods of transmitting and receiving, can be directly compared to each other -- Especially since it's highly unlikely that any two games share the same data center to begin with.

You say that rebooting the computer seems to fix the problem. I don't know what the NICs on the motherboard do during the boot process so, I can't really comment on that but, perhaps you have some odd network settings configured in Windows? That stuff is pretty much beyond my level of expertise, though.

If this is a problem which happens consistently throughout weeks or months, you've likely got a bad connection, a bad router, or something is jacked up in the OS. If this has been happening for a week or less, some ISP may be doing upgrades or something and routing traffic elsewhere which is forcing traffic through a different route for the time being and causing lag.