I have two computers, one runs WOW perfectly and the other has a problem I will describe below. I am wondering if anyone has insight about what is wrong. I have gone through all the Blizzard trouble shooting tips, done updates on Windows, drivers, and my bios. Still have the problem....
When I log in my existing characters sitting in Org, the process partially succeeds and then after a short time I get booted from the game with "Disconnected from server." Typically, things materialize slowly, half the toons around me have "unknown" instead of names, and I can't interact with the mailbox or auctioneer or any mob.
It appears that I am lagging so bad that I get dropped from the game. I have a minor character in Brill who has the same result, and I think another character in Ratchet that actually can log in. If I start a brand new character, everything works okay. I have had disconnect problems before, but after the 2.0.1 patch I cannot successfully log in at all.
My computer is very good in every respect (dual core Athlon 64, Abit fatal1ty motherboard, sata drive, 1 gig memory, DSL) except that it is using a 64 Meg PCI video card (but it was handling the graphics fine). I am wondering if there is some bottleneck in my computer that I am missing but someone else identified and can enlighten me about. Thanks in advance for good advice!