Post by Wanderingfox
Check your route to the server. It sounds like you're having connection issues to the datacenter your new server is on.
- windows key + R
- cmd and hit enter
- start wow, go to the character select screen
- alt-tab to the command window
- type "netstat -a" and hit enter (no quotes)
- copy down the foreign address that ends in :3724
- alt-tab, close wow.
- type "tracert xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" and hit enter (no quotes, fill in the x's with the ip address you wrote down before. Do not include the :3724)
- Look for a line that looks like this: "* * * sometext.sometext.sometext ", "hugenumber hugenumber hugenumber sometext.sometext.sometext " or "* * * Request timed out."
If you see lots of *'s in your tracert, it means you're getting dropped packets on that hop. This drastically increases your ping, which will cause disconnects. Also look for server hops that show large delays (the three numbers represent the time it takes to talk with that particular hop). Lastly, look for hops that are completely unresponsive (3 *'s and "request timed out") these mean you couldn't talk to that hop
at all and are likely what's causing your disconnects.
NOTE: You WILL see "request timed out" at the end of the traceroute. This is the border of Blizzard's data center, and their internal routers are set to not to respond to tracert requests, so they show up as unresponsive. This is normal.edit:
This is what a
GOOD tracert should look like:
C:\Users\Fox>tracert 63.241.255.21
Tracing route to 63.241.255.21 over a maximum of 30 hops
5 9 ms 17 ms 7 ms xe-10-3-0.bar2.Boston1.Level3.net
6 23 ms 12 ms 12 ms ae-8-8.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net
7 24 ms 35 ms 35 ms ae-71-71.csw2.NewYork1.Level3.net
8 27 ms 21 ms 13 ms ae-23-79.car3.NewYork1.Level3.net
9 23 ms 15 ms 21 ms att-level3-oc192.NewYork1.Level3.net
10 55 ms 55 ms 61 ms cr2.n54ny.ip.att.net
11 52 ms 69 ms 56 ms cr2.wswdc.ip.att.net
12 63 ms 57 ms 62 ms cr1.attga.ip.att.net
13 55 ms 55 ms 54 ms cr2.dlstx.ip.att.net
14 62 ms 81 ms 53 ms gar23.dlstx.ip.att.net
15 96 ms 199 ms 208 ms 12-122-254-154.attens.net
16 66 ms 63 ms 62 ms 63.241.193.18
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
note: I did not include the first 4 hops as they're specific to my internal network, and you don't need to see them :P