Lag + Disconnect

[zeroxes]

The last couple of days I will get bouts of lag where my character will stop moving for several seconds before the screen goes black, and a message appears that says the connect to the server was lost with a QUIT button.

Is this common? Is there anything I can do to troubleshoot this?

[cdq1958]

The last couple of days I will get bouts of lag where my character will stop moving for several seconds before the screen goes black, and a message appears that says the connect to the server was lost with a QUIT button.

Is this common? Is there anything I can do to troubleshoot this?

There is a setting in options that lets you see connection status. If you don't have that enabled, enable it. It is color coded, too. Green is a good connection, yellow is a connection that is having trouble, and red is a disconnection.

When you hover over it, you'll see your ping time (and jitter), transfer rate (and jitter), and packet loss (and jitter). Know that the internet is a network of networks, so any failure between you and the server may result in disconnection. I see local to me problems from time to time and backbone problems from time to time. Sometimes the problem is the handoff to their data center host and/or within it.

[zeroxes]

Yeah, I do have the status indicator on. I was just wondering if this was a common problem, and if there was anything I could do? I don't have this problem with other online games.

[cdq1958]

[QUOTE=zeroxes;8180523]Yeah, I do have the status indicator on. I was just wondering if this was a common problem, and if there was anything I could do? I don't have this problem with other online games.[/QUOT
It isn't common, I'd say, for my own experience. Not much you can do about it, either.