virgin media 50 meg world of warcraft hell.

Dazboots

Dazboots

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just had virgin media 50 me gline installed. was on there 10 meg line for 3 months. then upgraded to 50 meg.
problem is since going with virgin i cant play world of warcraft without disconections every 20 mins or so. used without my router firewall and used on 3 different opperating systems. problem still there. does any1 know what it is. :(
 
Well either your connection is dropping a lot or theres some other kind of problem :/


ping www.google.co.uk -t from your command prompt :P leave it going till you get disconnected from wow and see if it starts timing out?


If theres any problems there youre better off calling Virgin :P and if you dont see a problem... well call them anyway :\
 
IIRC I saw a thread like this a few days ago on another forum, and it turned out a lot of people where having problems on different ISP's, with the common thing being the Talia(?) backbone dropping packets or something similar.

Try doing a trace route to the WoW servers on a continuous ping for a few minutes, that should show if there is packet loss, and where it starts.

20 minutes is an odd timing thing for it to be directly ISP related, although I have experienced a real fun time in the past with WoW when my brother played it - his connection would effectively go dead after a few minutes due to what turned out to be a router issue (the WoW servers really didn't like the then current firmware that controlled the WAN port on certain Linksys routers*) - at the time the only way to sort it was to use a completely different router, or connect to the modem directly.


*IIRC it was an issue with the Broadcom chip's driver that was in the router firmware doing something the WoW servers didn't like.
 
Werewolf said:
IIRC I saw a thread like this a few days ago on another forum, and it turned out a lot of people where having problems on different ISP's, with the common thing being the Talia(?) backbone dropping packets or something similar.

Try doing a trace route to the WoW servers on a continuous ping for a few minutes, that should show if there is packet loss, and where it starts.

20 minutes is an odd timing thing for it to be directly ISP related, although I have experienced a real fun time in the past with WoW when my brother played it - his connection would effectively go dead after a few minutes due to what turned out to be a router issue (the WoW servers really didn't like the then current firmware that controlled the WAN port on certain Linksys routers*) - at the time the only way to sort it was to use a completely different router, or connect to the modem directly.


*IIRC it was an issue with the Broadcom chip's driver that was in the router firmware doing something the WoW servers didn't like.
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hi and thx for the info tried what u said. after 14 mins playing game disconected me. and the ping timed out @ www.google.co.uk @ same time. what would u recomend me to do . thx in responce.
 
Post to newsgroup virginmedia.support.broadband.cable, seems to be some on the ball tech. support guys over there.
 
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