I have waited long enough, and as much as it pains me to admit that I can't figure this out, I need help guys.
In the past, I've suffered from the various "There is a problem with your connection" disconnects, but it was a rare occurance. For a period of 8 months of playing, I only recieved said error three times. I had always bragged at the quality of my connection and how it never let me down.
3 weeks ago, karma caught up to me. It started off as one day, a laggy connection for internet browsing and then when I went to fire up the game, I CTD'd. This was even more a rarity, in comparison to the disconnects. So I re-boot the system and go to play again, and it works fine for the first half hour. Midway through a round, I get the "There is a problem with your connection" message yet again. I re-load to the same server and carry on. 25 minutes later, "There is a problem with your connection". Reconnect and carry on, 20 minutes later, "There is a problem with your connection." And I got off that night.
Figuring that it wasn't a big deal, I shrugged it off and didn't play for a few days (RL needed some time too). On the following Friday, I sit down to a nice, 64 player Karkand server only to find that every 10 minutes, I saw "There is a problem with your connection." And since then, I haven't been able to sustain a connection for longer than 10 minutes. I can play for the first 7 and a half minutes reasonably well (there is lag, which has gotten annoying as well, but it isn't as bad as it gets). When those last 2.5 minutes show up, I get massive lag spikes, FPS drops, and sound bugs. And then, like clockwork, at the 10 minute point, everything freezes and "There is a problem with your connection" displays on my screen.
Because of the signs, I believed the problem to first lie in my system. I've done a few checks and have found that other games have no issues such as these, even playing at much higher graphic levels than those set up for BF2. So now I believe that the issue is my connection. I currently have an 8 mb (I'm fairly sure) cable connection provided by Comcast, and want to know how I can remedy the solution.
I will now describe my set up as the internet enters the system:
[*] Cable comes in from wall into preliminary Comcast (provided with service) modem.
[*] Ethernet line runs to a Linksys VOIP phone adapter for our internet phone service.
[*] Ethernet line runs to a Linksys WRT54G router.
[*] Ethernet line runs to a Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller, installed on my system.
This has been my set up for at least 2 months before the connection issue first occured.
Also, I have recently done a modem swap from Comcast's standard to a Motorola SB5120, because I believe that the origonal modem had fried. We lost the connection one night and it took alot of work (with the new modem) to get things running. At first, I thought that the new modem would remedy the situation, but I am mistaken. I still have the same 10 minute gaming sessions before a connection error.
Because of this, BF2 (and some other online games: TDU, for example) have become unplayable. I want to fix this issue.
To those of you who have actually read to this point, I thank you for your attention. I also wish to thank you in advance for your help and knowledge to solve the problem. I need help guys.
In the past, I've suffered from the various "There is a problem with your connection" disconnects, but it was a rare occurance. For a period of 8 months of playing, I only recieved said error three times. I had always bragged at the quality of my connection and how it never let me down.
3 weeks ago, karma caught up to me. It started off as one day, a laggy connection for internet browsing and then when I went to fire up the game, I CTD'd. This was even more a rarity, in comparison to the disconnects. So I re-boot the system and go to play again, and it works fine for the first half hour. Midway through a round, I get the "There is a problem with your connection" message yet again. I re-load to the same server and carry on. 25 minutes later, "There is a problem with your connection". Reconnect and carry on, 20 minutes later, "There is a problem with your connection." And I got off that night.
Figuring that it wasn't a big deal, I shrugged it off and didn't play for a few days (RL needed some time too). On the following Friday, I sit down to a nice, 64 player Karkand server only to find that every 10 minutes, I saw "There is a problem with your connection." And since then, I haven't been able to sustain a connection for longer than 10 minutes. I can play for the first 7 and a half minutes reasonably well (there is lag, which has gotten annoying as well, but it isn't as bad as it gets). When those last 2.5 minutes show up, I get massive lag spikes, FPS drops, and sound bugs. And then, like clockwork, at the 10 minute point, everything freezes and "There is a problem with your connection" displays on my screen.
Because of the signs, I believed the problem to first lie in my system. I've done a few checks and have found that other games have no issues such as these, even playing at much higher graphic levels than those set up for BF2. So now I believe that the issue is my connection. I currently have an 8 mb (I'm fairly sure) cable connection provided by Comcast, and want to know how I can remedy the solution.
I will now describe my set up as the internet enters the system:
[*] Cable comes in from wall into preliminary Comcast (provided with service) modem.
[*] Ethernet line runs to a Linksys VOIP phone adapter for our internet phone service.
[*] Ethernet line runs to a Linksys WRT54G router.
[*] Ethernet line runs to a Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller, installed on my system.
This has been my set up for at least 2 months before the connection issue first occured.
Also, I have recently done a modem swap from Comcast's standard to a Motorola SB5120, because I believe that the origonal modem had fried. We lost the connection one night and it took alot of work (with the new modem) to get things running. At first, I thought that the new modem would remedy the situation, but I am mistaken. I still have the same 10 minute gaming sessions before a connection error.
Because of this, BF2 (and some other online games: TDU, for example) have become unplayable. I want to fix this issue.
To those of you who have actually read to this point, I thank you for your attention. I also wish to thank you in advance for your help and knowledge to solve the problem. I need help guys.
