Choppy Internet

SkatePopwar · #1 July 16th, 2005, 06:48 PM

i have recently been playing battlefield 2 on my computer, but almsot every 10 seconds, i will get your connection has been interrupted and occasionally wil lbe disconected. this is extremely annoying, im going to shoot sum1 and i get a DC then when i goes back to normal im in the opposite directioon and they gun me down. and its not lag because noone else experienced it. so what do i have to do?

pentium 4
windows xp
512 ram
around 74 gig memory
broadband internet (LAN settings or whatever says its 100 mbps...cant be right can it?)

note: i have this same probolem of losing the connection and reconnecting with IMing tools such as AIM and Xfire

any help is greeeeeeeeeatly appreciated. i can berely play and its killing me cause the game is so cool.

striderider · #2 July 16th, 2005, 11:53 PM

I am getting the same thing, is your network running a linksys befsr41 router?

**Miz** · #3 July 17th, 2005, 12:07 AM

If you have Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed, check out the information in Windows XP SP2 Networking Problems Help.

I applied the fix linked to on that page and haven't gotten the "limited or no connectivity" problem, which I was getting constantly, since.

striderider · #4 July 17th, 2005, 12:13 AM

I'm still using SP1, i hate SP2.

My problem is mainly while using AIM. I will be fine for a while, then it seems as if I lose connection, and i'll either have to sign off and back on (in which case i'm fine for a few more minutes) or if i wait for a little while, I regain connection and I get all the messages the people had tried to send during that time.

I hear a lot of people are having this problem, many with a BEFSR41 Linksys router.

I have suscom cable, and I tried calling them. They sent packets to the computer where the cable is connected, and they said everything was fine on their part. The man i talked to suggested that it might be a virus on one of the computers, but I've run adaware, spybot, and pc cillin - housecall on all the computers on the network.

I also notice that connection error when I try to watch streaming video. It will suddenly stop streaming, and try to buffer, and fail.

Stride

SkatePopwar · #5 July 17th, 2005, 01:21 AM

hmm, i dont know if i even have a router, how can you tell? lol but ill chrck out that link

edit: most of that stuff is if u have a router, does every comp have one? is "surfboard" a type of router?

striderider · #6 July 17th, 2005, 01:26 AM

If you have multiple computers that are on the same network and get the same internet, you most likely have a router.

It has a cable running to the Cable Modem, and then cables running to all the other computers in the house.

**Miz** · #7 July 17th, 2005, 02:23 AM

If you think it's the router, download and install the latest firmware for it.

You can access downloads for Linksys routers on this page.

Skatepopwar: A router is a piece of hardware which allow two or more computers to be networked together and to share the same internet connection. Some modems are also routers. The BEFSR41 is a stand-alone router the broadband modem and the computers are plugged into.

striderider · #8 July 17th, 2005, 05:18 AM

I tried, but I don't know my routers server password lol

How can I find out and the change it

I tried the standard ip address, the 192 one, and I tried having no user name and password of admin, but its not working.

I know i've done it before, as I used it once to forward ports for a program.