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    Udidtoo's Avatar Senior Member
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    After dozens and dozens of saturday night coops hosted by -HH- Beebop suddenly I can not connect to his server when he takes a turn as host. Never had any trouble and his was always quite stable. His IP is static.

    -HH- Emann has a dial up connection and starting last weekend he couldn't connect either and earlier tonight but after several attempts he was able connect.

    I host the HellHounds alternate TS and Beebop has no trouble connecting to me on TS and when I'm hosting coops. We are neither one aware of any changes we made that brought this on and like I said. Prior to last week and tonight he is and has been one of our main coops hosts.

    Any suggestions? I don't even know what areas of the config might help someone trouble shoot this.
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    Hi M8

    Connectivity issues can be difficult to diagnose, as there are so many variables/nodes that can go wrong!

    Can you 'ping' Beebop's IP address? (You may have to create a rule in your firewall to allow it).

    Example:

    C:\Documents and Settings\Roger>ping bbc.com

    Pinging bbc.com [212.58.224.82] with 32 bytes of data:

    Reply from 212.58.224.82: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=248
    Reply from 212.58.224.82: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=248
    Reply from 212.58.224.82: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=248
    Reply from 212.58.224.82: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=248

    Ping statistics for 212.58.224.82:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
    Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 19ms, Maximum = 21ms, Average = 20ms

    Can you do a 'tracert' (trace route) to his IP, and does any particular 'hop' show excessive latency?

    Example:

    C:\Documents and Settings\Roger>tracert bbc.com

    Tracing route to bbc.com [212.58.224.82]
    over a maximum of 30 hops:

    1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
    2 19 ms 18 ms 17 ms thus1-hg2.ilford.broadband.bt.net [217.32.64.73]

    3 123 ms 18 ms 20 ms 217.32.64.34
    4 23 ms 21 ms 21 ms 217.32.64.110
    5 21 ms 21 ms 22 ms anchor-inside-2-g3-0-0-s191.router.demon.net [21
    2.240.162.125]
    6 21 ms 21 ms 25 ms tele-border-2-g1-0-0.router.demon.net [194.70.98
    .182]
    7 23 ms 22 ms 22 ms demon-te4-3-607.prt0.rbsov.bbc.co.uk [195.11.50.
    66]
    8 23 ms 22 ms 21 ms 212.58.238.149
    9 22 ms 21 ms 23 ms www31.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.82]

    Trace complete.

    Sometimes you will experience a routing fault that lays between yourself and a particular host, evident when others can reach a particular destination yet you cannot.

    Pinging a known host, and one that is known to respond such as the BBC, is a good first step to confirm that your firewall is allowing the traffic.

    Another possibility is that sometimes ISP's will block traffic from certain ports to control worm outbreaks.
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    Possibly I'm off-topic, but I was noticing some strangeness with my connection, specifically in & to HyperLobby. Mainly on leaving a coop, either by hitting Esc. or by waiting until the end (no difference), I could not get back into the Lobby. If I did get back to the "welcome back, Brando" screen, then no details were available - no chat, player lists, or arenas visible - while my wingman was telling me that I was shown as still 'in game'.

    Just exiting HL and restarting the program didn't help - and I was still showing as 'in-game' - and I had to re-boot to re-enter the lobby. This happened several times over a 3-hour session. TeamSpeak was unaffected throughout (apart from the reboots of course) although it runs on the same ADSL line, on a separate machine attached to a router.

    I know this differs from your experience, but I thought I'd mention this 'un-forced' change that has occurred here, due to the similarity. Years in the old HL....nothing quite like this before....blah, blah
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    Thanks for the suggestions guys. AS soon as I can get a translator in here I promise to try all of your suggestions.

    Sundays are not good days for connecting until the race is over for 1/2 of the -HH- we're addicted to turning left 800 times really fast.Takes me 1 hour just to put a voodoo curse on the 24 car.

    I'm not even going to pretend I know what your talking about B16Enk.....yet. 2 years ago I didn't know how to assemble one of these soul stealing devices either.

    Ok, I'm off to google 'Pinging an IP' 'tracert' and 'hop' Thanks again gents.
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    Go to http://www.analogx.com and dl a program called HyperTrace m8. It's a free program that will do as B16ENK suggested. Just type the Col. ip address and you can watch how many hops and how long it takes to connect to each.
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    From a command prompt you type:

    ping bbc.com to test firewall

    Then

    ping {ip_address_of_server_trying_to_connect_to}

    If you can't get a response:

    tracert {ip_address_of_server_trying_to_connect_to}

    Will tell you where it breaks down.

    But as Quazi says, HyperTrace will do the deed nicely
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    Thank you for the explanation B16. Nifty little program Quaz so a big thank you also Tim (he already knew I'm a lazy slob)
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