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U have Comcast. ?

Yeah. Well, we'll see if it happens. I let PR sit in a server for an hour and it didn't disconnect. Before it was within 10-15 minutes every time without fail.

Join a server with >50
Actually play.
Then see.

Do u have Comcast triple play?!!

True. Joined a server with 12 people.

Nope. Just tv and Internet.

Blahhbhcgj
I wish my home phone wasn't here.
Really resists wut modem u het

I have found something out. ( I don't even know why I bother)

DEVS, can you possibly make this a 'permanent post' in the OP?


"Comcast users, the reason for disconnections is because of when comcast did the 'switch' to upgrade the BLAST package and the one above the BLAST package caused this issues.
You can't really do anything unless you wanna downgrade your Internet speed(S). "


I have the BLAST package. Ever since they did the 'upgrade for the net' speed...
The BLAST speed was 25mbps now it's about 50mbps. (It's faster IMO, I have noticed.)
Now the package above the BLAST is faster.. (100mbps+) This is the same issue.

matty1053 wrote:I have found something out. ( I don't even know why I bother)

DEVS, can you possibly make this a 'permanent post' in the OP?


"Comcast users, the reason for disconnections is because of when comcast did the 'switch' to upgrade the BLAST package and the one above the BLAST package caused this issues.
You can't really do anything unless you wanna downgrade your Internet speed(S). "


I have the BLAST package. Ever since they did the 'upgrade for the net' speed...
The BLAST speed was 25mbps now it's about 50mbps. (It's faster IMO, I have noticed.)
Now the package above the BLAST is faster.. (100mbps+) This is the same issue.

Why would this cause an issue? This blows. Does not make any sense that a faster speed would cause an issue to a server...or does it? I have been plagued with this problem since the upgrade to 1.0

stumptown wrote:Why would this cause an issue? This blows. Does not make any sense that a faster speed would cause an issue to a server...or does it? I have been plagued with this problem since the upgrade to 1.0

Yes. It's an issue. Why?

Because with internet companies switching to higher speed.


Comcast should have done...

1.Notified their users of their 2 internet tiers they are gonna upgrade. (Give 2 week notice)

2.Shut down the service for a day or so to actually do the upgrade.

3.Start it back up.



**Comcast NEVER did anything like that. That is a mistake on their part. My cousin is an expert in IT and how this **** works. HE says that was their mistake.


They upgraded their speeds for their 2 top tiers in June. (I noticed the disconnects after they updated the speeds.



But I got the issue of constant CTD for no reason.

I wanna play PR sosososo bad!

My god..... Still doing it. I think that reinstalling PR might just fix the issue.

Last night It was fine for me. (I played about 4-5 rounds of good ol' PR on Hog.

I hoped that this new patch would fix this issue, but no

I have an Arris modem with router.

p.s.y.c.h.o, we did not know that Arris modems are used in Brasil.

What ISP do you have in Brasil? We'll add it to the FAQ on Arris modem problem, so others can find the info.

[R-COM]LITOralis.nMd wrote:p.s.y.c.h.o, we did not know that Arris modems are used in Brasil.

What ISP do you have in Brasil? We'll add it to the FAQ on Arris modem problem, so others can find the info.

I am sorry for making this a big deal.

But we can all conclude.
1.comcast is the worst ISP in America for pr

2.arris modems suck for pr.


(I have my days were it runs pr like amazingly. Then other days crappy)

[R-COM]LITOralis.nMd wrote:p.s.y.c.h.o, we did not know that Arris modems are used in Brasil.

What ISP do you have in Brasil? We'll add it to the FAQ on Arris modem problem, so others can find the info.

It's called Cabo Telecom.

Well I hate to bring this up.


I am now thinking it's just Cable Internet it self.

This is a POSSIBLE Solution... well for at least Comcast users. I don't know if this will help anyone else.
It's worth a shot if you are having this issue.


Disable IPV6 in your modem and your router!

Why?

Well, (IIRC, all >2010 Routers/Modems have the IPv6 and IPv4 combined.) so...
You have one "shorter" ip.adress.
The IPv4 is 32 bits long.
The IPv6 is 128 Bits LONG.

So, most routers/modems have both running at same time/ enabled.
So you are connecting to a server using BOTH IPv4 and IPv6.

Again the Shorter one will take Less time to establish a connection to the server(s); since it's a much smaller address.

Really, there is almost no true reason to have it enabled.

Link basically explaining what it is, (WIKIPEDIA)


So, it's kind of useless, since about only 3% of people use it, on the internet world wide... so that is like <500,000 of the internet users in the world. IF not less then 100k users.


It does slow your connection down.

So it will not hurt you if you turn it off.

matty1053 wrote:Again the Shorter one will take Less time to establish a connection to the server(s); since it's a much smaller address.

Really, there is almost no true reason to have it enabled.

Link basically explaining what it is, (WIKIPEDIA)

It does slow your connection down.

So it will not hurt you if you turn it off.

Um... I'm not sure if you're being serious... :

Here's some light reading about IPv6:
IPv6.com - Top 10 Features that make IPv6 greater than IPv4
IPv6 protocol overhead : Caffeinated Bitstream
Course: IPv6: IPv6: Advantages and Disadvantages
IPv6 Pros and Cons - Packet Life
What Are The Advantages Of Using IPv6 Over IPv4? - Blurtit
The Pros and Cons of IPv6 - CNN iReport

What you said is akin to saying "This car is now slower because I put bigger tires on it"

If you can show me a single (even slightly academic) resource that backs up what you said, I'm happy to have a look, but until that point I believe you may be pulling **** out of your ***

I will give you link tomorrow since I am going to work now.
But. Ever since I disabled ipv6 I had almost 0 lag issues and NO disconnects.

matty1053 wrote:I will give you link tomorrow since I am going to work now.
But. Ever since I disabled ipv6 I had almost 0 lag issues and NO disconnects.

Oh, I'm not saying it won't help fix the problem, I'm just saying what you said about the IPv6 protocol is wrong. There could be a myriad of comcast/router issues that cause IPv6 to make the connection falter... people should definitely try disabling it. But the protocol itself is not inherently slower (it's in fact the opposite) except in some fringe cases [not pertaining to BF2/PR].

I've had this problem from the beginning and I've been checking through this thread for a while but nothing has fixed my problem. But today, I found a possible fix. It's probably just the last step but I'll go through what I did throughout the day.

I'm running PR on Windows 8.1 hooked up to a Medialink router which is connected to a Motorola SB6120. I live in the DC area (which has IPv6), my provider is Comcast, and I have the 50 Mbps boost package, as well as cable TV.

1. First, I disabled IP v6 on my computer. Here are the instructions to do that. You don't just uncheck the box in your network adapter configuration. Doing that made the disconnects take longer, but it would still be like 15 minutes in.

2. Then I bought a new router, a D-Link DIR 601. It was supposed to handle IP v6 (instead of trying to disable IP v6, I was going to try to get all of my equipment to support it). But I bought the wrong hardware revision of that router that didn't support IP v6. So, I scrapped that idea.

3. I needed to buy a new modem soon anyway because I'm moving so I went out early and bought a Netgear CMD31T. I was hoping this would fix it and I would be able to have some configuration options, but that wasn't the case. I still had the disconnects after about 5-15 minutes.

4. The PROBABLE Fix: I looked into using a VPN to see if that would fix it. I don't know much about it but I believe all of my internet traffic gets tunneled to a server somewhere else which will then connect it to whatever it needs to connect to. Wiki Article My brother actually had purchased a couple months of a VPN from this site. I don't know how much he paid but from what it looks like, you can buy a year for $40 or monthly for $7. Once you purchased a plan, you'll get login information and download software. You just login to the software, choose a server by location, then right click on the icon in your taskbar and click connect. Then, all of your internet traffic will be going through the VPN. It will affect your ping, though. I went from having around 10-15 on an American server such as CIA to 50-55 on it. It's not a huge impact but you'd just have to make sure to change your VPN server to the country that the PR server you're connecting to is in.

After I set it up, I was able to play about 30 minutes until the map changed and another 30 minutes until I had to stop. I was not disconnected and I didn't experience any more lag than normal. There might be cheaper VPNs around or even free ones for you to try, but my experience was with the site I linked to. I'll try again later in the week to make sure it still works, but this fix seems pretty promising.

EDIT: And just googling real fast got me this article. Those free VPNs night not have the best ping but you could use one of those with an empty server just to see if it works, then pay for a faster VPN if necessary.

Ok guys, can someone else using an Arris modem+router try this: disable the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service, wmpnetwk.exe, shut the ******* down, restart the PC and try PR.

Thing is, I updated PR today and wondered if this service had/has anything to do with these disconnections.

I played 1:10 on HOG with no problem whatsoever, mind that the server was not full, it had 40 players or so, I'm gonna try again at night in a full server.