Time out trying to update PB client

[AfterDune]

My brother got back to PR recently and is playing some COOP to get to know the game again. He's suffering from punkbuster ****. Every x minutes he gets kicked off a game with the message "time out trying to update PB client".

He updated his PB a couple of times already.
BF2.exe, PR.exe, PnkBstrA.exe, PnkBstrB.exe are all running as administrator.

What else can he do to get rid of this annoying bug?

Thanks.

[IINoddyII]

type pb_sleep 500 in the console

disable the firewall / antivirus and any other unnecessay background tasks

Is his connection to the router wireless btw?

[AfterDune]

No, he's wired directly to the router.

I'll tell him to disable AV and Firewall, see if that helps anything.

[LITOralis.nMd]

"type pb_sleep 500 in the console"

this is to switch to 500 milliseconds, i.e. 5 seconds, this may or may not work.

Likely AV/firewall,

If punkbstra or punkbstrb are terminating unexpectedly, you can install bitsum process lasso (32 or 64 bit depednding on OS), and toggle the switch to 'turn on immediately upon termination"