Fanelien
05-05-2009, 08:10 AM
<p>The problem I'm currently having is intermittant connection dramas, sometimes I get no connection at all and it simply disconnects every 30 seconds, sometimes it holds for a couple minutes at a very low speed ~10kb/s. ONCE, I got a connection to hold at 200kb/s, for approximately 20 minutes, which was not able to patch the lot.</p><p>Now, before the myriad of canned replies litter this thread, I'll get a few things out of the way: I am using Vista x64 UAC is OFF. I've turned off every firewalling option on my modem/router, attempted to forward ports manually in case that was causing a problem, fully updated both Windows and all drivers, including the router firmware. I've even tried patching my client as EU English. Also tried multiple restarts of all hardware involved.</p><p>I am located in Australia, connected via ADSL2+ supplied by iinet.</p><p>I have run many tracerts, pathpings and netstats to find the problem. Eventually I found I am getting simply massive packet loss on the second last hop, to the tune of 99 to 100%. This hop is a router in the sonyonline.net network, more specifically vl586.amsix-slb2.sonyonline.net</p><p>There has to be some reason this router is dropping 99% of my traffic and it is not local to my PC, could someone please look into this?</p>