Molinaar Finn
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Posted - 2008.06.24 00:13:00 -
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People,
There are about 30 major Internet Exchange Points that provide over 1 gigabits worth of throughput, one of which is in London, where data is routed to other places, internationally. Just like we players, CCP has to pay someone for the privilege of running their product through an ISP. If the ISP is having problems then that will reflect on the users' end.
Keep in mind that CCP IS doing what they can to solve the problem for us. I suggest in the meantime you all quit complaining, alter your normal play for a bit (take up mining or train a really long skill and find a hobby), until this matter is resolved. That way you won't lose ships. If you continue to put yours toon in harm's way KNOWING there is a disconnect issue...it's on YOU, not CCP so don't expect any reimbursement. It won't kill us to wait for CCP to locate another IXP/ISP, negotiate a contract and resume business as normal.
Keep in mind however that there are only so many companies providing international net-comm services and everyday, more and more people sign on. It's not the Eve code, it's not the patch. I personally monitored the main backbones here in the US for almost three hours and out of the 12 largest providers, four of them were having huge latency issues (delays in packet delivery). If something takes too long to respond to the server, the server automatically disconnects it to preserve system resources for others waiting.
Believe it or not, this type of thing was expected, that is why development of the WorldWideWeb 2 and 3 were started, years ago. Too many people, not enough bandwidth and providers. If any of you wants to really capitalize on this situation, get a small business loan, open up your own Internet Exchange Point for international connections and charge for it. We can always use more but please, try to provide at least a ONE gigabit thru-put. : )
Now, take a deeeeep breath, let it out slowly, and be patient. I've actually had the game not drop for 8 hours straight ( left it on all day) and no drop. I refreshed my IP with windows ipconfig, made the port and Eve IP trusted through my AV, turned off some adaware stuff, etc etc. Ultimately, it's about timing and load. CCP will get it fixed if they have to buy their own Data Transfer company to do it. They lose more if we are unhappy so believe me, they are working on it.
Sincerely,
A formerly disgruntled but now informed player.
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