Korinthius
Caldari
UNAS Corp
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Posted - 2010.01.05 22:08:00 -
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Not sure if this will help everyone, but it has resolved the Socket Closed issue for multiple corp members. Heres what we found and what we did to resolve the issue.
For the last 2 weeks we have been getting an increased number of socket closed errors. Originally this would only happen once or twice a day, but quickly escalated to 5-6 times an hour. Not good while running missions as we all know.
When the issue became really bad for me and my roommate, we started thinking we had a bad router, and went through the logs. In the logs, we found hundreds of packets lost in just mere moments. The log only held 20 pages of info, and within 10 mins, the whole log had been refilled. While following some other posts we found on the web we began troubleshooting.
During the Troubleshooting process, we played with a few settings, such as turning gaming mode off, UPNP Settings we disabled, and Discard PING from WAN side was enabled. While these changed did NOT resolve the issue, we found a new problem. In the logs, alot of the packets lost we now changed to "Smurf Attack Detected". The little blue buggers we messing with my router? j/k. Through more research, we found a resolution to this problem as well. We changed the router so we were not longer on a 192.168.0.X network to a 192.168.1.X network.
Results = 36 hours of no Socket Closed Errors, and packets dropped went from 100 per min average to 6 per HOUR. Result = 2 Happy Eve Players.
We recommended this fix to other people in the corp who were having the same problem, and they are rocking Tranquility with the rest of the corp again.
The fix may require as little as the IP change or as much as all 4 items we changed, but TBH, I am not going back and testing that theory under threat from my roommate to smack me with a frying pan if he loses connection again.
Network Hardware In Use
Bell Speedstream 5200 DSL Modem
D-Link DI-624 Airplus Extreme G Wireless Router
Hope this helps others out there ( Donations Welcome ), not sure if these suggestions have been posted before and I appologize if I am repeating someones previous post
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