This should fix most ills but will require you to fork out some money.

Go to a VPN service provider and sign up for their cheapest plan.

Connect to VPN and run repair.exe

It should work then as this will bypass any ISP based system that is killing connections to the EVE download server.

You wil have to google for providers. I personally use Strong***.

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I wouldn't personally call all the ills CCP's fault. There are some scenarios like this one that no amount of testing will detect.

I hope they compensate affected parties in some way in any case when they eventually fix the problem.

KT

That's enough. After days troubleshooting, the client still doesn't work at all. I do not want to spend my little spare time to solve CCP technical issues. And pay for it.
And, by the way, it's not a single issue, but an entire collection of different bugs. Download, graphic driver & screen resolution, program launcher, in-game issues, etc.

I just closed my subscription.
Good bye.

This is a problem that was happening on sisi and never resolved. You then proceeded to release it . Good work.

i knew CCP is going to update the launcher today ... and i knew it will screw up ... so i rememebered a work around ...

DO NOT EVEN use the launcher

open EVE folder
open BIN folder
run evefile.exe game program directly

WHY DO THIS?

cos the launcher tried to update itself and screwed itself again.
repair does not even start
...

either the CEO of CCP is not paying the programmers enough ... OR ... you dont have enough time for the programmers to do this ... either way ... I BLAME CCP ! :p

Any ideas why eve patch keeps breaking my wireless connection havent been able to download past 15% as it just cuts my net out from the machine

thanks

Update 14th March 16:15 GMT :

We have found a solution for some people getting corrupted downloaded data. The problem is caused by an antivirus/firewall called ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus.

Players are asked to try to disable the protocol content filtering:

1.Open the main window for ESET
2.Press F5 to open the Advanced Setup Window
3.From the Advanced Setup tree, click Personal firewall Protocol filtering (for ESET Smart Security) or Antivirus and antispyware Protocol filtering (for ESET NOD32 Antivirus).
4.Untick the checkbox GÇ£Enable application protocol content filteringGÇ¥
5.Download the latest repair tool: http://cdn1.eveonline.com/client_repair/345/repair.exe
6.Drop the repair.exe into the EVE client folder.
7.Run repair.exe

This will update your game client, take you to the latest version and give you a working version of the Launcher.

If that does not resolve your problem, please reply here.

Thanks man, very clever!!
A bit of a pain to have to do that but better than nothing.

It works great.

Nope. This was one of the first things I tried, using my university's VPN client. Not a chance.

The general problem with the "fixes" in this thread is, that there's a lot of very different issues and each fix will only work in a specific situation if you also have that specific problem.

Hey, everybody got pwned by the BRILLIANT LAUNCHER, save ur time try fixing that uber CRAP. Head to

FULL CLIENT DOWNLOAD

Install it & pewpew.

This is the only way get you back in to the server.

And starting from now, be prepared to download the full client everytime a patch release.

I"m ready for this. because i have downloaded 4 times already since this BRILLIANT LAUNCHER is out.

For those using firewalls that do protocol filtering you MUST disable the firewall or the protocol filtering in your firewall software no matter what in order to stop the data corruption issue.

This has been discussed in several other threads but CCP has as of yet to announce this. It has to do with their usage of the rysnc application over http wrapper. rsync was never designed to be used the way CCP is using it.

The other thing that causes the data corruption for the same reason is SPI filtering in ANY router.

SPI and protocol filtering are looking for the same things. rysnc does not comply with SPI no matter what you do to it.

CCP answered my petition regarding this issue and directly conflicted with the public statement they made regarding hopes of ESET coming out with a patch for NOD32 or ESET Security. They stated that they were working with ESET to find a solution. The fact remains that CCP has yet to acknowledge that the launcher itself is the cause of the issue due to their usage of an application that uses UDP streaming over a http wrapper which is TCP.

No matter how you slice this issue, the fact comes down to rsync triggering SPI and firewall protocol filtering issue which causes corruption of the data stream.

This discussion and workaround solutions have been posted by members of the Eve Community and myself in this thread:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=80365

CCP has yet to make any public announcement regarding the issues I've just posted but the fact remains that every workaround I've helped my own corp members with as well as trying to fix my own issues with the data corruption issues comes back to SPI and protocol filtering of firewalls. Once these things were turned off or reconfigured to continue to allow Eve to operate in the clear of the firewall filtering, clients were able to launch and run properly after downloading the latest version of the repair tool and running it in the Eve directory.

For those of you getting data corruption errors this is the best possible hope of getting the client working until CCP removes rsync or some how magically makes the problem go away with the help of other firewall company software developers that can school them on coding properly for network protocol calls in their launcher.

For those using firewalls that do protocol filtering you MUST disable the firewall or the protocol filtering in your firewall software no matter what in order to stop the data corruption issue.

This has been discussed in several other threads but CCP has as of yet to announce this. It has to do with their usage of the rysnc application over http wrapper. rsync was never designed to be used the way CCP is using it.

The other thing that causes the data corruption for the same reason is SPI filtering in ANY router.

SPI and protocol filtering are looking for the same things. rysnc does not comply with SPI no matter what you do to it.

CCP answered my petition regarding this issue and directly conflicted with the public statement they made regarding hopes of ESET coming out with a patch for NOD32 or ESET Security. They stated that they were working with ESET to find a solution. The fact remains that CCP has yet to acknowledge that the launcher itself is the cause of the issue due to their usage of an application that uses UDP streaming over a http wrapper which is TCP.

No matter how you slice this issue, the fact comes down to rsync triggering SPI and firewall protocol filtering issue which causes corruption of the data stream.

This discussion and workaround solutions have been posted by members of the Eve Community and myself in this thread:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=80365

CCP has yet to make any public announcement regarding the issues I've just posted but the fact remains that every workaround I've helped my own corp members with as well as trying to fix my own issues with the data corruption issues comes back to SPI and protocol filtering of firewalls. Once these things were turned off or reconfigured to continue to allow Eve to operate in the clear of the firewall filtering, clients were able to launch and run properly after downloading the latest version of the repair tool and running it in the Eve directory.

For those of you getting data corruption errors this is the best possible hope of getting the client working until CCP removes rsync or some how magically makes the problem go away with the help of other firewall company software developers that can school them on coding properly for network protocol calls in their launcher.

Where I am from I cant do this. The bandwidth to download the full client after each minor patch would cost more than the monthly subscription on my three accounts :(

My problems were fixed, and then started again on Tuesday after the 1.5.3 update.

Can someone from CCP please advise whether this problem officially exists (in CCP's eyes) and whether they are still looking into it? Or have we been forgotten about?