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Ok I've been disconnecting ALOT in the past week or 2 at odd times. Like, sometimes it'll say "Protocol timed out" or "Please check cables, connections, etc." when everything is fine. Can anyone help me out?
Sounds kind of like what Im going through. My problems started after the last pol update for the most part. I get the messages you state plus one saying that my IP has reset. Damn you POL Damn you!
Yes same problem here. Worse yet I got dced in the middle of a fight in the Crawler's Nest and I was the whm. >< not very fun. Luckily, though when I came back on no one was dead. But it has been happening way too often to me and people in my Linkshell also.
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Anyway, I've noticed alot of people in my linkshell being disconnected are getting R0. In a pt yesterday in Yuhtunga Jungle, like 3 people disconnected from my pt right after each other. Not sure what the problem is but it seems to be happening to a lot of people.
Anyway, I've noticed alot of people in my linkshell being disconnected are getting R0. In a pt yesterday in Yuhtunga Jungle, like 3 people disconnected from my pt right after each other. Not sure what the problem is but it seems to be happening to a lot of people.
I've been getting time outs myself. It seems to happen more often in zone with a fair amount of critters, and rarely in the cities.
This is weird, and just a theory, but I have a feeling that it's a firewall/port forwarding problem.
GailC and I use the same Internet connection, through a router. If I set one of the computers to 'DMZ Host' (meaning basically that there is no firewall), the excessive-disconnect problems vanish. Only one computer can have DMZ Host at a time though, and the other computer will D/C 4-5 times a night. Regular Internet usage is unaffected.
This is a recent problem, it's only happened with any frequency since the last update. I know just enough about networking to get by, but not enough to understand why FFXI would cycle through ports, especially through ports that would probably be blocked by a firewall.
Does anyone know which ports FFXI makes use of? It would be useful to be able to just route the game through the goofy firewall.
Edited, Wed Feb 9 12:31:16 2005 by Sioux
GailC and I use the same Internet connection, through a router. If I set one of the computers to 'DMZ Host' (meaning basically that there is no firewall), the excessive-disconnect problems vanish. Only one computer can have DMZ Host at a time though, and the other computer will D/C 4-5 times a night. Regular Internet usage is unaffected.
This is a recent problem, it's only happened with any frequency since the last update. I know just enough about networking to get by, but not enough to understand why FFXI would cycle through ports, especially through ports that would probably be blocked by a firewall.
Does anyone know which ports FFXI makes use of? It would be useful to be able to just route the game through the goofy firewall.
Edited, Wed Feb 9 12:31:16 2005 by Sioux
Hmmm I been getting lots of DC issues since last update too. went with a Nin buddy of mine adn his whm friend to try and get an ifrits cauldron key drop and things were going really smoothly for a while then mid battle I DC'd. I recieved the pol error message and then when I hit the retry button it says "checking viewer version" then says "could not update viewer" and doesnt let me log back on for a few.
I called my buddy about it and he said he was disconnected too and that he couldnt get on either. then i gave up and started cleaning and he called me back saying he just got back on on and the whm was disconected as well. This was around 2pm pst yesterday. Anyone else get dc'd?
I called my buddy about it and he said he was disconnected too and that he couldnt get on either. then i gave up and started cleaning and he called me back saying he just got back on on and the whm was disconected as well. This was around 2pm pst yesterday. Anyone else get dc'd?
Interestingly enough my R0 problems have stopped *Knocks on wood*
I play on PS2 and computer both, my wife has an account as do I and we are usually both on. For a while there I was getting R0 a TON and it would happen to my wife as well but I haven't seen it in a while.
I have us on a Dlink router, nothing fancy. And I know absolutely nothing about routers in general so I couldn't tell you what ports we're on or how it's configured.
I play on PS2 and computer both, my wife has an account as do I and we are usually both on. For a while there I was getting R0 a TON and it would happen to my wife as well but I haven't seen it in a while.
I have us on a Dlink router, nothing fancy. And I know absolutely nothing about routers in general so I couldn't tell you what ports we're on or how it's configured.
I run a linksys router and I contacted them after POL's tech told me to, don't bother calling them after 5pm PST. Linksys said to try a couple different MTU settings, what ever those are I only made it through one week of the Cysco course(damn deployments.) So I would recomend contacting your router company and tell them that you are trying to connect a PS2 from behind thier router and they should be able to guide you through the setup.
Seems like it happens once in a while every few months and then SE or whichever ISP is causing the problems goes and fixes it.
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