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Re: Connectivity

• wgoldman 4 Posts

  Wed, Mar 9 2016 7:15 PM

  Sure would be nice just to be able to first, get a game where everybody can connect, and secondly to be able to finish said game without somebody being booted the maximum of three times.  This is complete BS

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Sun, Mar 13 2016 2:20 PM

  You might wonder how it is that lots of players don't have those troubles very often, if at all.

  In other words it's entirely possible the BS, or CS (computer ***), may actually be at the players end. Lots of players have computers that are less than well maintained. Factor in the way the Internet works and one can conclude that there is little WGT can do at their end to ameliorate those issues.

  If you insist on playing the game types WGT has always had problems with, like alt shot, you fit the definition of insane Albert Einstein came up with - Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result each time.

  Whack 'em well!

• VegasWade 486 Posts

  Sun, Mar 13 2016 6:56 PM

  ApexPC:

  You might wonder how it is that lots of players don't have those troubles very often, if at all.

  In other words it's entirely possible the BS, or CS (computer ***), may actually be at the players end. Lots of players have computers that are less than well maintained. Factor in the way the Internet works and one can conclude that there is little WGT can do at their end to ameliorate those issues.

  If you insist on playing the game types WGT has always had problems with, like alt shot, you fit the definition of insane Albert Einstein came up with - Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result each time.

  Whack 'em well!

  I'm starting to like you, Apex. In two posts today you've posted the same thing I've been saying here about alleged disconnection issues, although my version was a little less refined than yours. Like you, I maintain a clean computer, have a screaming Internet connection and update the proper files. I don't have disconnect issues, although I'm told I need to play more AS games or keep my mouth shut; I've been doing a lot of match play. I actually believe it is a very small, but extremely vocal forum minority that have such issues.

  I did post some tips on my profile for other players having these alleged disconnection issues, but perhaps it should be addressed in a separate thread, i.e., "How to maintain a clean computer void of game disconnects."

   

• borntobesting 9,709 Posts

  Sun, Mar 13 2016 7:25 PM

  i often think that the players who get the most DC's have too strong a firewall or was my case a few months ago when I found that I actually had 2 separate firewalls running. One was the normal Windows firewall and the second was one running through my router software. deactivating the router firewall almost completely did away with my DC's.

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Tue, Mar 15 2016 12:20 PM

  VegasWade:

  I'm starting to like you, Apex. In two posts today you've posted the same thing I've been saying here about alleged disconnection issues, although my version was a little less refined than yours. Like you, I maintain a clean computer, have a screaming Internet connection and update the proper files. I don't have disconnect issues, although I'm told I need to play more AS games or keep my mouth shut; I've been doing a lot of match play. I actually believe it is a very small, but extremely vocal forum minority that have such issues.

  I did post some tips on my profile for other players having these alleged disconnection issues, but perhaps it should be addressed in a separate thread, i.e., "How to maintain a clean computer void of game disconnects."

  It's nice knowing I'm not 'the sound of one hand clapping'.

  A vast majority of regular WGT players do not participate in these forums.  Players that do regularly participate in these forums that don't have problems don't often post that information which distorts the appearance of how many players have game play issues with disconnects, slow loading, blue screens, game freezes, etc.

  I don't doubt that many players have disconnect, slow loading, blue screens, and game freeze problems but because not all players have those issues indicates the player's own computer is the most likely suspect as the source of those kinds of trouble.