Force Reconnects

I'm sorry if this has already been posted (I did a search and nothing came up) and feel free to close if it has.

For as great as reconnects are, I have a problem with my internet connection where if the answering machine picks up, someone picks/hangs up the phone I sometimes lose my connection briefly. I can't use the internet usually for about 20 seconds but then everything restores as per normal; however, GW sometimes gets stuck for upwards of about 5 minutes and it just hangs there in mid-action. It would be great if there was a button where you could forcibly disconnect yourself, if it's even possible. Sometimes disrupting my own connection doesn't work and I lose all progress. Just a thought...

This isnt something that needs fixed ingame, its an issue with your phone connections at home.

Either you have a dial up connection which doesnt allow for multiple phone line connections at once and you might want to concider broadband.

Or you must have alot of phone splitters around your house connecting multiple devices to your phone line and causing certain ones to be cut off.

You need to clean up your connections and check your splitters and see if any are loose or in the wrong places!

You shouldnt really be getting cutt of from the internet if its all set up correctly, and your on broadband.




Personally Im cut off very rarely ingame and when ever I have had to use the reconnect its been fine and it hasnt lagged. I had issues at one point where I was cut off when the phone down stairs was used, but that was resolved by buying a new line and fixing the splitters.

Its more likely your set up at home and/or your internet connection is very slow and/or tempermental.

Use Task Manager to kill the Gw.exe process, wait until your connection stabilises, then open the game and continue where you left off.

Of course I do not blame the disconnects on GW's part. I have tried numerous times to fix the problem, to no avail. Even if I believe the error to be server side, sometimes it takes me ages to disconnect. My internet is not slow by any means and everything is set up correctly, it just randomly does it sometimes. However when I try to reset GW myself, by means of forcing a reconnect (ending the task, manually disconnecting from the internet, etc), sometimes I do not have the opportunity of loading back into my instance. This isn't the tech forum, this is just a suggestion of mine to be able to force a reconnect.

As you wish.

Listen, this has nothing to do with tech help. I have DSL and trust me it is nice, but there is some problem which I cannot solve. I'm not asking for help fixing it, I've tried everything I can think of. It doesn't matter if it's in the 10 minutes or not, sometimes it takes a long time to be able to reconnect to GW because I'm stuck in the same position while waiting for it to boot me. What I want is something to be able to force a reconnect when I'm stuck so I do not lose my progress. Sometimes by trying to do one myself by either ending the task (GW) or disconnecting my internet, I lose my instance and cannot get back in simply because GW will not allow me to reconnect, as I just stand in the same spot.

Did you read my post above? It's helped me a lot in getting back to the game quickly whenever I've had disconnect issues.

I addressed that, I said sometimes when I try to end it through the task list I CANNOT GET BACK TO MY INSTANCE. That is why I wish there could be a button where I could force my own reconnect.

Or... you could get real internet.

Then you're doing it wrong. Every time I control-alt-delete to kill my GW (not press the X) it allows me to reconnect.

It'd be pretty silly for them to have a force disconnect and reconnect in game. They'd have nowhere to put it, and no one's ever had trouble killing the program to force a reconnect.

I have Verizon online DSL, so as for real internet, I don't know how it could get much more real.

Sometimes if I kill it from the task list, it doesn't register as an abrupt disconnection and therefore I don't reconnect into my instance.

Doing it wrong? Do you have reading comprehension? I said something about ending this from the task list. And no one's ever had a problem? You're speaking on behalf of 3 million GW players...

Mods might as well close this thread, as no constructive conversation is coming from it.

1. your issue has nothing to do with GW.

2. It sounds like your answering machine is not using a filter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSL_filter
usually the ADSL modem comes with a couple, sometimes not enough to outfit the house.
look at the ones you have, look it up on your providers website or whatever and order some.

Like others said it's from your connection, this has nothing to do with GW, Is that a thread lock I'm hearing?

- Ganni

Dude people are just trying to help and in terms of your suggestion /not signed. For the very reason myself and others have said already.

This isnt a GWs issue and its not something needs fixed! Ive never heard of anyone having issues before with reconnect. It should usually take you back to the exact same instance or mission you were kicked from, aslong as its within a given time.

The fact that the process is hanging when the game kicks you out is worryin enough. I know your going to reply with some bad tempered atittude, but check for spyware and viruses and defrag your machine if you need to.

The GWs client shouldnt hang at all!

The other issue is (as youve agknowledged) you shouldnt be getting kicked from the game as often as you are and its obviously not a server side issue. That is obviously due to this answer machine and how its connected to your phone line at home. Fix your connections at home and check your machine and fix what ever it is, and then you wont have reconnection issues because you wont get kicked.

/not signed because its purely an issue on your side and Anet doesnt need to change things ingame because of that.

This is why they ask you instore "can your machine meet the correct spec?" before you buy it. It isnt Anets job to make changes to the game to better suit the clients side and players who either have dodgey machines or bad home connections.

Reconnect works fine and it gives you the choice to reconnect if you wish to! What differenc will a forced connection make if the game is hanging on your side?

The reconnects are sketchy at best. I've lost connection, redialed, reconnected to MSN Messenger to make sure I was actually on-line, then clicked Reconnect on Guild Wars, and it would still boot me out of the game half the time.