Connection Cancelled Out

[Guest]

I know I'ma newbie to MTA, but after a few hours of messing around with it trying to get it to work, I finally got it to work. I chose my character and I started playing. All of a sudden, I noticed the chat 'box' stopped having people chatting in it and only had notices like ____ has joined the game. I also noticed how everyone else was stuck in the same place. Then the chat box declared me disconnected because my connection cancelled out. I've been messing around with that for quite a while, but now I'm completely clueless. If anybody could help it would be greatly appreciated.

(Yes i know this is posted in the General section because only moderators are allowed to post in the problems and bugs section, so if this needs to be moved to an area I accidently overlooked, then move away and I apologise)

[-UtopiA-]

Did it only do it that once? Or does it do it everytime you play...

[dystopia]

sounds like he's either trying to play on windows 9x (windows 95, 98, or me) or he is on a bad 56k connection. You might also make sure you don't have any p2p programs open, they'll eat all your upstream bandwidth.

[Lara C.]

I also noticed how everyone else was stuck in the same place. Then the chat box declared me disconnected because my connection cancelled out.

ehrm..yes....happens to me about 9 millions times a night..if i'd post every time i get disconnected i think they would need an extra forum just for that purpose

Seriously..dont know what connection you have (dial-up ?)...if you're on dial-up and play on servers with more than 8 people or so then it might happen. Play on smaller servers..and accept that there might be some bugs left and you get disconnected once in a while. Btw. i think i have less disconnects ever since the latest server version...but could also be that i now avoid the bigger servers and tehrefore get less disconnects...dont know.

[Guest]

Whoops, my connection is DSL. It happens everytime I play, but it sounds like you can't play with Windows 98. I have another computer being fixed right now thats XP so I'll give that a try

[xerox]

ok - problem solved by the looks of things.... ill keep this open another 12 hours or so then lock it, just in case more problems arise - thanks =}