Connection Problems

Henrik_is_God

Anyone else having serious problems getting into games ??

Last couple of days have been brutal for me . Id say 40% of the games I get into break down in some way . Also I rarely get into a game thats just starting if I do get into one the game is nearly over . One game I got into .....I basically ran 3 steps and it was over :mad:

mle1324

Henrik_is_God wrote: »

Anyone else having serious problems getting into games ??

Last couple of days have been brutal for me . Id say 40% of the games I get into break down in some way . Also I rarely get into a game thats just starting if I do get into one the game is nearly over . One game I got into .....I basically ran 3 steps and it was over :mad:

What are you on,PS3,XBOX or PC?

Henrik_is_God

mle1324 wrote: »

What are you on,PS3,XBOX or PC?

sorry forgot to mention .......PS3 Eircom

mle1324

Henrik_is_God wrote: »

sorry forgot to mention .......PS3 Eircom

What nat type are you and how long has thing being happening?

Rb

Henrik_is_God wrote: »

sorry forgot to mention .......PS3 Eircom

I've the same setup and have found things to be absolutely horrendous recently. On Eircom 7mb too.

Every single f*cking game I'm dumped into a match that is almost over and onto a team that is f*cking losing. The very, very odd time I'll get a game going that is just starting, but that must be maybe 1/100 or so.

Really bad experience, the match making is genuinely worse than on MW1, and that is a hard thing to accomplish. It takes a while to find a game, then when it finally does it's because someone jumped off a team of f*cking retards.

Then there's the "host migration" that is just horrendous. The Xbox version used to do it really quick, I find that probably 90% of the time it happens it can't find a suitable host and dumps the game, or will find a host and stall for ages or never even start the game.

Very, very offputting, Combined with the shite maps, I've yet to have a "good" experience playing MW2 MP. The actual gameplay, perks etc is astounding but the matchmaking and maps are just awful.

MW1 is still finding games in a second, be they already going or new games, MW2 seems to be taking minutes to get going. Load of bollocks!

Henrik_is_God

mle1324 wrote: »

What nat type are you and how long has thing being happening?

my nat type says "strict"

really bad for the last few days .....ie games lagging/breaking down .

And an awful lost of games are like ...........3 against 2 or 5 against 2 . Rarely full

mle1324

Henrik_is_God wrote: »

my nat type says "strict"

really bad for the last few days .....ie games lagging/breaking down .

And an awful lost of games are like ...........3 against 2 or 5 against 2 . Rarely full

Well is your nat type set 1,2 or 3. If you live anywhere were there was flooding i know internet was affected somehow.

Henrik_is_God

mle1324 wrote: »

Well is your nat type set 1,2 or 3. If you live anywhere were there was flooding i know internet was affected somehow.

I have no idea ? How do you find out what type its set at ?

No , not affected by the flooding here in Galway

mle1324

Henrik_is_God wrote: »

I have no idea ? How do you find out what type its set at ?

No , not affected by the flooding here in Galway

Go to settings > network settings > settings and connection status list and you should find it at the very bottom of the list.:)

Yesss 1000 posts:D

Rb

My NAT was type 3, went to change it tonight by following the instructions http://www.wiffy.ie/forums/gaming-pc-xbox-360-ps3/5288-ps3-perfect-online-guide-netopia-eircom-router.html

I'm now finding that if I try to make it a static IP, which I have set up on the router for, it now says UPnP not available and NAT type Failed.

If I do it automatically, however, it just goes back to being Nat 3 but with UPnP working.

Any ideas?

ScissorPaperRock

Rb wrote: »

My NAT was type 3, went to change it tonight by following the instructions http://www.wiffy.ie/forums/gaming-pc-xbox-360-ps3/5288-ps3-perfect-online-guide-netopia-eircom-router.html

I'm now finding that if I try to make it a static IP, which I have set up on the router for, it now says UPnP not available and NAT type Failed.

If I do it automatically, however, it just goes back to being Nat 3 but with UPnP working.

Any ideas?

What router are you using?

Stuxnet

what NAT type does it tell you your on from in game lobby menu
NAT: strict/moderate/open ?
you can get nat3 from strict to moderate
you need nat 1/2 to get "open"

Henrik_is_God

BOBBY wrote: »

what NAT type does it tell you your on from in game lobby menu
NAT: strict/moderate/open ?
you can get nat3 from strict to moderate
you need nat 1/2 to get "open"

Ok , but how do you change from one Nat type to the other ?

brian plank

Henrik_is_God wrote: »

Ok , but how do you change from one Nat type to the other ?

just follow this video and it might take a few tries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JugGe7CCuNU

Henrik_is_God

cheers man

tried it 6 times ........no go

brian plank

you should keep trying. what does it fail on btw? is it saying incorrect password or something?

Rb

@ScissorPaperRoc : Netopia router from Eircom.

Rb

The above video worked for me (although UPnP still doesn't work), Nat2 wasn't a go-er though.

ScissorPaperRock

Rb wrote: »

@ScissorPaperRoc : Netopia router from Eircom.

I had a lot of trouble with this router.

Basically, Eircom don't support UPnP with the PS3 on this router. So NAT 2 isn't an option.

So it's either NAT 3 or NAT 1.

I had great difficulty in getting NAT 1. Well the solution was quite simple, but it took quite a lot of hours trying to figure out what was going wrong.

To cut a long story short I upgraded the firmware to version 7.8.0r7. When I did this, the PPPoE finally connected, and I got NAT 1. Some sort of conflict seemed to arise where it was disconnecting frequently, but I changed an Xbox in the house from PPPoE to UPnP, and this problem seems to have fixed itself.

Other people have managed to connect their PS3s without updating firmware, so I'm not sure if it's necessary, but it worked for me.

Henrik_is_God

brian plank wrote: »

you should keep trying. what does it fail on btw? is it saying incorrect password or something?

It says

Obtain IP address : Failed

no reason , and now I can't get online at all

I just noticed something while I was in "internet connection settings" . My signal strenght is 45% !!! Is that not very low

Henrik_is_God

Its saying the password is incorrect now ?

eddien1234

up until last week i was fine , but now , take s ages to get a game and even when i do it goes thru the sync new host thing and then dumps me outta the game , hating that

EGriff

eddien1234 wrote: »

up until last week i was fine , but now , take s ages to get a game and even when i do it goes thru the sync new host thing and then dumps me outta the game , hating that

Exactly the same here. I tried that PPPOE thing, but theres some kind of IP address mix-up and both PS3 and my laptop keep dropping connection. So had to go back to the default setup.

Rezident

Yes lots of connection problems. NAT is strict, instructions to change it are for D-Link, Netgear, Linksys, and seemingly every other company in the world except for Zyxel. Zyxel doesn't appear to want to change (not to mention even bother to make 64-bit drivers for Windows 7).

I would advise people to never buy anything form Zyxel - useless in my experience.

EGriff

I used this guide to set up a static IP and forward some ports. Still says nat type strict in MW2 but connects a lot faster, not getting kicked during host migration now either.

http://www.wiffy.ie/forums/gaming-pc-xbox-360-ps3/5288-ps3-perfect-online-guide-netopia-eircom-router.html

Its for that netopia router you get from eircom. I'm with imagine and it worked fine.

ravydavygravy

Rezident wrote: »

Yes lots of connection problems. NAT is strict, instructions to change it are for D-Link, Netgear, Linksys, and seemingly every other company in the world except for Zyxel. Zyxel doesn't appear to want to change (not to mention even bother to make 64-bit drivers for Windows 7).

I would advise people to never buy anything form Zyxel - useless in my experience.

Sigh. I have a Zyxel router (660HW-D1) - I've forwarded the correct ports, and opened the firewall as necessary, and I have NAT: Open. I almost guarantee the right person can get this working on any router that does address translation.

See my previous posts on this, my favourite of topics - here, here and here

evad_lhorg

Is anyone having party problems? I try set up an in game party and whenever it goes beyond 3 or 4 people some of the people get dropped out before a game starts or dont even get into the game lobby. it is extremely annoying.

Stuxnet

first step is throw away netopia router

Damien360

BOBBY wrote: »

first step is throw away netopia router

+1

On eircom I had a netgear router that has UnP compatabilty and if you could'nt be bothered putting all the correct ports in then just put the PS3 in DMZ on any netgear router.

Also, I note many of you with 7meg eircom on this thread. Have a peak at the broadband forum under "Tech" and you will see that the general concensous is 7meg from eircom has terrible ping times. Your ping time is one of the more essential parts of your connection to get right.

Test your ping on www.speedtest.net on your PC with nothing else on the network. It should be less than 50ms. MW2 seems to allow up to 100ms but after that you will get a lot of lag and get dumped out of games.

Just because you had good connection on 3meg eircom does not mean your 7meg will be good.

TelePaul

Also having connection problems, matchmaking takes a looong time, is laggy, and games are rarely full. Maybe one match in four will work flawlessly. Also eircom, but Nat Type 1. Can someone explain the x/25 number and other matchmaking criteria in the top right of the lobby screen?

Henrik_is_God

Well , I have since changed from Nat 3 to Nat 1 (open) and I actually had to turn the PS3 off there because it was lagging so much .

ravydavygravy

I read in some other threads/forums that eircom lines (and I assume others) have bad latency on them. Maybe these tools will show you if you have potential issues? Heres my results to the Dublin server - I don't often have major issues with lag, but if I'm in a game where my link drops to 1 or 2 bars, I just leave and join a new game - normally solves the issue.

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Post your results if they seem bad?

EDIT: Actually some above already posted about this - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63210815&postcount=29

Rb

Is NTL supposed to be any better for gaming than Eircom? I'll be switching at the end of the month to their 10mb package with tv stuff so would be useful to know what to expect!

dtrocks_6

i was with ntl when i lived in town(galway),i was on nat 2,and could host games no problem,moved out and went to eircom,finally got nat 2 with neotopia router, but when i try to host a game in MW2 it says strict (its only hosting thats strict not the connection). I think it is to do with the router as i have tried everything,but it automatically worked with ntl,they use netgear router. But not saying its gonna work for you.My friend got a BT router for his eircom broadband and after serious work,is now able to host. I'm thinking about getting that 10mb ntl package too