After 4 days, changing IP fixes Shmii's 3113 timeout error.Follow

Now roam the world and find out what zones you R0 in!

Changing IP fixes the symptom, but not the cause.

Edited, Mar 12th 2007 2:50pm by Ineptvagrant

Grats, now all you have to look forward to are random d/c in random zones... enjoy!

If you have a Static IP (usually a business plan) then you can just ask the ISP to change the IP for you.

Most households have a Dynamic IP however, which operate on a 24 hour lease. Every 24 hours, you are given a lease on an IP number, when the 24 hr periods ends, the lease is renewed, meaning you usually are given the same IP you had the day before.

However, if your modem is unplugged when the lease is set to expire, then that IP becomes available to anyone requesting an IP, and chances are you will recieve a new one the next time you turn your equipment back on.

You can also force the termination of your IP lease by doing a hard reboot within your routers menu, or by going into your computer and opening the Start Menu and selecting "Run".

Type COmmand to open a DOS window, then type IPCONFIG /all to show your IP and all the info associated with it. This will show you your mac address, when your lease started and when it ends, etc.

Typing IPCONFIG /release then terminates your lease.

Typing IPCONFIG /renew will renew the current lease on your IP.

So typically, for the best shot at a new IP, just find out when your IP lease is set to expire, and unplug your stuff a few minutes beforehand. Then leave it unplugged for as long as you are able, and when you plug everything back in, your old IP address should be taken by someone else and it will sign a lease for a brand new IP, whichever is available at the time.

This is why I have everything unplugged atm until Tuesday, when I have Dynamis. I am giving myself the best possible shot at a new IP.

Yup, changing mine switched me from a user having troubles with D/C in random zones to a user who can't even log into the character select screen anymore.

So changing your IP is not guaranteed to be a good move for everyone.

change again Scree, I had to change a third time to get back online, granted I have at least 7 zones I can't use atm, but I got past login. That is if you even want to play atm :P

I've decided to stay off the game and keep everything unplugged until this issue is fixed. If, after a few days, it still hasn't been addressed, I'll most likely cancel my account and move on. Changing my IP is nothing more than a Band-Aid on a lethal wound.

Being someone who has run a gaming forum for many, many years, I know the power a simple patch or a tweak here and there can have on the overall end product. That's why you backup your files, to ensure if you missed something or made a mistake during your coding, you simply re-upload the original and then figure out where you made the error, so the end user experiences as little downtime as possible.

SE's tiny update on Thursday iirc, not the large update, is what caused this problem. Soemwhere in there, lies the answer. I played fine the day after the update, the day after that however, I could not.

Stands to reason it should be an easy fix for SE to institute.

You shouldn't do that. You're one of the lucky few who have posted a SMN melee thread on the SMN forums without getting laughed at. I don't think anyone would give Craftermath the time of day anymore even if he did post something worthwhile.

We keep trying to change our settings (IPs and MAC address stuff), but I am firmly convinced that it is not OUR problem.

I have been temporarly able to connect by bypassing my router, but I suspect that I will have problems with RO in different areas (I will check this out tonight).

It is something SE has changed lately with how (and perhaps what) they send data to our routers and modems. They have caused this problem.

I have many questions:

Why should our IP addresses affect being able to zone?

Why does it appear to happen primarily on our main character?

What is SE sending to my router to cause it to block the signal?

I've never seen anything like O.O on my login screen like that... either that's a nasty error, a PC-only thing that shows on the screen when logging in, or he uses a Windower.

Those are the only 3 options I could think of.

Its called the Distance plugin for windower. If you know how to use it, you will never pull aggro again, and you will fire at the "sweet spot" with a ranged attack everytime. It's a very handy plugin.


Edited, Mar 12th 2007 3:46pm by itsbutters