"Lost Connection to Mapserver" constantly


BadReligion

 

Posted

Hi, I just recently resubscribed to CoX and have been actively playing for about two weeks now. I've come across a problem in which I will lose connection to the mapserver after every zone change. As soon as my character exits a train, a door or anything of that nature I lose connection and cannot connect again after logging out and back in for a good 5-10 minutes. If I stay in a zone I can do maybe two or three missions before the missions start doing the same thing. It has finally gotten to a point where I can no longer play without spending more time at the login screen than in game.

I am using a direct connection in a student-living apartment complex (horrible internet) and I'm assuming that's what is causing the issues, but I figured I would post here just in case.

Any advice would be welcome.


 

Posted

Alrighty, I logged in after being offline for a few hours and as soon as I tried to zone into a mission I got disconnected.

This is the netgraph of the 30 seconds before zoning, everything up to drop just before the yellow spike was before I got to the load screen:



The drop and after were there as my screen came up from the load screen.

Just a note, my ping usually sits around 140-160.


 

Posted

This is continuing to happen frequently, but it happens more often on heavy loaded servers. My ping has been around 100-120 on Union and Guardian and on both of those servers my netgraph is a stable green and stays small until about a half hour or so of doing missions (unless I change zones, then I get disconnected right away again).


 

Posted

So how much ram do you have? Dropping connecting during zoning is usually caused by not having enough ram.


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