jz68
join:2005-08-17
Garden City, MI
|  Can online gaming be killing my connection
I had another of many mystery outages with my cable modem today. The last two times I've lost my connection it has been while starting up a multiplayer online game. Has anyone ever heard of something like this being a cause of an outage? The reason I ask is because the techs that have been out in the past have never been able to find the cause of my outages. All of my lines test fine and trying different modems does nothing. My connection will then suddenly comeback later in the day with nobody having an idea what caused the outage. |
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The Way Out
join:2003-01-20 | I bet it's your router crapping out. It might be able to handle the pps rates you're trying to push. |
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jz68
join:2005-08-17
Garden City, MI | Not sure what you're talking about and I don't have a router. I have also tried two different ethernet cards and still have the problem. |
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Johkal
Cool Cat
Premium,MVM
join:2002-11-13
Happy Valley
clubs: | What happened to trying your modem using USB? |
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AthlGrond
Premium,MVM
join:2002-04-25
Aurora, CO
1 edit | reply to jz68
Which game?
I know that the in-game browser for Counter Strike:Source can cause routers to lock up (for a few minutes), but I've not heard of modems doing the same. |
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jz68
join:2005-08-17
Garden City, MI | reply to Johkal
I have it connected with the USB cable right now.  |
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Johkal
Cool Cat
Premium,MVM
join:2002-11-13
Happy Valley
clubs: | I haven't a clue what is causing this beyond your modem. Sorry! |
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jz68
join:2005-08-17
Garden City, MI | The only thing I can think of is some kind of a problem with the wiring from the box outside to the box in my apartment. Why it would work 99% of the time and then just suddenly fail is beyond me. |
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jz68
join:2005-08-17
Garden City, MI
| I just realized that I'm 100% sure that my connection died after starting up the game. I was able to refresh the master server screen but then was unable to connect to a server. Since I was able to refresh the list I had to of had a connection. Maybe it's just a huge coincidence but I don't think so.
So wtf is causing me to have no connection even after rebooting the computer and the modem? |
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