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Router issue with CoH

Hyperstrike

By Hyperstrike,
Posted on: 2011-02-22 08:47 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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I guess I may as well give this a go here and ask. (Although I am currently at work. If I need to utilize the tools mentioned in the above sticky, I will when I get home but thought I would go ahead and toss this out while I was thinking about it and had a few minutes)

I currently have 2 pc's and my TV for netflix viewing via an xbox going through a router.

I have have played EQ, DCU Online, WoW, and few other online games with no problems at all. City of Heroes though has intermittent Map Server Disconnects which cause all 3 devices connected through the router to lose network connectivity for about 2 minutes. Then everything works fine.

I have set the port forwarding on the router for the ports listed and that did not fix anything. I put the network cable straight to the PC, reset the modem so the main PC gets the IP address and then I can stay on CoH for hours with no problem. So.. I know its the router and CoH not being happy working together. If it was not for the fact that just about any other mmo works like a charm I would have thought it was the router.

What else could I possibly be missing besides forwarding ports 2104, 2106, 6994 and 7000-7100?

 

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Originally Posted by Vilephire View Post
I guess I may as well give this a go here and ask. (Although I am currently at work. If I need to utilize the tools mentioned in the above sticky, I will when I get home but thought I would go ahead and toss this out while I was thinking about it and had a few minutes)

I currently have 2 pc's and my TV for netflix viewing via an xbox going through a router.

I have have played EQ, DCU Online, WoW, and few other online games with no problems at all. City of Heroes though has intermittent Map Server Disconnects which cause all 3 devices connected through the router to lose network connectivity for about 2 minutes. Then everything works fine.

I have set the port forwarding on the router for the ports listed and that did not fix anything. I put the network cable straight to the PC, reset the modem so the main PC gets the IP address and then I can stay on CoH for hours with no problem. So.. I know its the router and CoH not being happy working together. If it was not for the fact that just about any other mmo works like a charm I would have thought it was the router.

What else could I possibly be missing besides forwarding ports 2104, 2106, 6994 and 7000-7100?
What's the make and model of your router?

What it sounds like, to me, is that the router isn't able to handle the traffic, chokes, and resets.

As an aside, this is one of the reasons I swore off consumer-grade routers. Issues like this (I'm in a happy place! I'm in a happy place! I'm in a happy *CRASH!* HAHAHA! SUFFER!) drive me crazy. And it wasn't like I was buying the cheapie $40 routers. I was buying the high-end 6-8 port ones costing $100-150 each..

So three and a half years ago now, I invested $250 in a "prosumer" router. No goofy port configs necessary. Can be dual-homed if I need it. Gigabit EVERYTHING and rated for stable operation at 60Mbps sustained throughput from the Internet.


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Check the uptime of the router on the status page of your router to see when it last reset. I agree with Hyperstrike about the guess that the router is resetting for some reason.