Getting disconected from EQ2 after 5 to 20 minutes

[Pauhe_Gunor]

<p>im using a 3G HUAWEI mobile modem E160G switched between HSDPA that is fastest speed or 3G, connection speed is something like 3.6meg so more than enough to play mmo's</p><p>never had problems playing other mmo's i dont disconect from the net or xfire after a random time usualy between 5 and 20 min i get kicked from eq2, still ingame just cant cast or anything all i can do is move about but ill not actualy be going anywhere as its just client-side</p><p>when im using my wifi conection everything is fine, windows firewall has eq2 exceptions to alow it through no software firewall on using mobile net no virus software running, tried ping tests they come through 0% loss</p><p>anyone have any idea why im getting kicked but not loosing net conection?</p><p>Thanks</p>

[TygerMeow]

<p>There is a difference between bandwith (3.6 Mb nominal for HSDPA or 3G) and latency. WWAN (Wireless Wide-area Networks) have a very bad problem with latency because of the way packets are handled on a cellular network.</p><p>Recently when I was in Belize, between the horrific wi-fi and whatever Internet pipe I was using, I could barely stay connected to Station Launcher for more than 2 minutes running because of latency. The bandwidth was running 200k plus, which is more than enough considering some people are still playing on dial-up.</p><p>I don't believe that SOE is best in class when it comes to this and even people with broadband regularly experience issues with connectivity to the authentication servers (which is where the real problems lies; Sony doesn't want people playing the game who aren't paid up on a minute by minute basis). However, I know people who have tried to play XBOX Live over their 3G and that doesn't work either. It simply requires too little latency for the service to work acceptably.</p><p>You may be able to adjust the TCP stack on your PC to allow for the WWAN connection, but it's doubtful. That kind of balancing usually requires changes on both sides and you obviously don't have that kind of control. However, if you want to give it a try, check out Dr TCP on dslreports.com.</p>

[Pauhe_Gunor]

<p><cite>Tyger@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>There is a difference between bandwith (3.6 Mb nominal for HSDPA or 3G) and latency. WWAN (Wireless Wide-area Networks) have a very bad problem with latency because of the way packets are handled on a cellular network.</p><p>Recently when I was in Belize, between the horrific wi-fi and whatever Internet pipe I was using, I could barely stay connected to Station Launcher for more than 2 minutes running because of latency. The bandwidth was running 200k plus, which is more than enough considering some people are still playing on dial-up.</p><p>I don't believe that SOE is best in class when it comes to this and even people with broadband regularly experience issues with connectivity to the authentication servers (which is where the real problems lies; Sony doesn't want people playing the game who aren't paid up on a minute by minute basis). However, I know people who have tried to play XBOX Live over their 3G and that doesn't work either. It simply requires too little latency for the service to work acceptably.</p><p>You may be able to adjust the TCP stack on your PC to allow for the WWAN connection, but it's doubtful. That kind of balancing usually requires changes on both sides and you obviously don't have that kind of control. However, if you want to give it a try, check out Dr TCP on dslreports.com.</p></blockquote><p>i realy have no idea what your getting at to be honest sorry :/, with my wifi (home) netowrk i never have any issues with that at all conecting to swg or eq2 so thats not an issue.</p><p>on the mobile 3G connection i have good signal strength, no bad weather, no latency at all, 0% packet loss</p><p>the ingame network monitor loks perfectly fine and the graph comes out just the same when im on my home (wifi) network</p><p>i did notice one thing last nite when i was in a group on the network monitor when i have my issue, the data transfer stops downloading but downloads the voice data as im still conected to the server, i can still talk and hear people on voice chat :s so the conection to the server has not been severed</p><p>one other thing when ive loged into launchpad where you select your charachter, the info on the right to that when you can view all charachters on your account that page wont display, so it seems like something is preventing data downloading correctly?</p>

[Pauhe_Gunor]

<p>reposted in connection support as i never seen the forum when i posted <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=451391" target="_blank">Connection support post</a></p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p><cite>Tyger@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>There is a difference between bandwith (3.6 Mb nominal for HSDPA or 3G) and latency. WWAN (Wireless Wide-area Networks) have a very bad problem with latency because of the way packets are handled on a cellular network.</p></blockquote><p>That's really the key here.  In most cases you will actually be better off using a dial up connection over wireless broadband.  The latency when connecting to a game server is just too high.  People using sattelite experience the same problem due to the distance the information needs to travel.</p>