RC Help
 

Hi,

I'm wondering if someone could help me with this issue, my NC is always disconnecting after a certain time which is causing me a lot of fustration when creating scripts and editting databases. Also once I load RC up it takes atleast over a minute for it to connect correctly before I can do anything.

My operating system is Windows 7 Home Premium and I have all firewalls turned off on my Vigin Media Super Hub. I have no anti virus programs running to stop the routing problem of RC connecting so unsure if anyone else suffers this issue as it's so annoying and time consuming.

happens to me sometimes. i'll get d/cd from nc and I have to reconnect to the server in order to save anything.

Did you check your internet connection? It happens alot to people with a slow internet connection.

My internet connection is 100mb, I don't think it's anything to do with that.

Newcastle?! I thought you were Australian for some reason.

On Zodiac, Darkus is constantly d/cing from NC and reconnecting to it. Not sure why, I'll ask him and see why his is that way.

Have you tried a fresh folder install by any chance?

I acually haven't tried A fresh install, I might just do that now and backup all my saved work. I think it might have something to do because my graal folder is located in the default location in my Users on my account in windows, not in olden days of c: \program files\ so it's finding it hard to access and possibly goes through a security check (Like windows 7 checks every file you open basically needing permission)

It's just something I noticed since returning to Graal and yes i'm born and bred in Newcastle :)

I keep my Graal chillin in the legit olden days of c: \Graal.

What? I thought Graal used to be zipped into C:\unzipped\Graal?

My Graal was always in program files, i'm going to re install now and see if it changes anything.

My RC is also taking some time untill I can finally use it, but I think thats because of tabs being used. else im never experiencing that kind of lag

It's extremely annoying, I've moved my folder into C: so i'm going to re install now see if it fixes the problem.

Just re installed and nope did not work at all. Even tried RC 2.4 not 2.5 and still same issue with NC disconnecting.

Try using a VPN and see if you have the same issues.

I don't have one set up, does anyone know the ports for RC possibly could port forward it to see if there's any connection issue?

Port forwarding won't do anything because it's an outbound connection. The ports RC and NC uses are also different per server. I'm pretty sure this is related to NC disconnecting/reconnecting because the RC doesn't 'ping' or receive data to keep the NC connection alive.

With your RC connected, open a command prompt and do: netstat -a -b

You'll eventually see RemoteControl2.exe listed and it will show the port it's using. The bigger port number is typically the NC.

It's possible your ISP/modem/router is interfering and closing the connection as it appears inactive which in turn causes your NC to disconnect, a VPN could alleviate this issue.

This would be my guess. The older (current) Windows RC doesn't send any kind of keep-alive packets on NC afaik. The new one (which Stefan hasn't released on Windows) does, which iirc he said fixes the issue.

Likely your router (which is doing NAT) drops the connection to NC from its translation tables after it doesn't see any activity for a while (since it thinks the connection is dead), effectively killing it. Usually you can raise this timeout ("NAT timeout") to help reduce the frequency the problem, but that depends on your router. You can observe this problem with other protocols that don't send periodic keep-alive packets (e.g. SSH, but usually you configure it with a keep-alive to avoid this very problem).

The real solution is use the new RC, but Stefan hasn't released it yet for Windows, not sure why.

Curious, does the new RC also resolve the issue with clipping strings > 256 characters?

@Daz, happens to me alot on my home connection where my internet is alot slower then where I'm living now. It also takes me a while for NC to load when logging on RC, but I think that's just because of the amount of scripts we have on Era.

@NewRC Does the new RC still have the "level list is not longer supported" button?

that is some high level pro **** jer

I'm setting a VPN up but i can't locate the ip address for the server wishing to connect to as i tried netstats in command prompt and it gives me an error saying "The requested operation needs elevation."

Try running the prompt with elevated privileges.
http://i.imgur.com/php6VgX.png

This is even worse now since Stefan tried to make the network better, constant disconnecting from game itself and RC, also an annoying message "You don't have admin rights" constantly spams RC now when my NC gets disconnected.

Yea I get that too :o

I'm getting all sorts of weird issues with RC connectivity :/

Many times it's just that RC stops communicating data. In-game my connection is fine. But on RC if I try to chat, open anything or such, nothing happens. I can open Client-RC in client and do all the things fine, but my connection on RC is broken. I have to open the serverlist and reconnect. And I have to do this constantly, like every 15 minutes or so on a bad night I have to reconnect. This is an absolute pain in the ass when you're scripting stuff.

Ditto, it's so frustrating Stefan you need to fix it.

I think I know my issue and it's only happening on Graal, every time I get disconnected my ip changes to 75.126.61.42 which is based in Houston Texas. Now i guess the server is located there but i've just relised EVERY player online when I disconnect gets the same ip as 75.126.61.** but the last 2 digits change. This could be the issue every one is having with the network problems with "Admin Rights" getting removed etc is because my IP is changing to 75.126.61.42 after a certain time, Stefan you may want to check this out it's only happened ever since the DDOS attack.