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On 1/14/2020 at 12:14 PM, Chris24601 said:
The short solution is; find a VPN service whose price and features fit your needs. Install and run it with your location set to a place that would change the route your internet to reach Toronto in Canada.
What that route is will vary with your physical location (see below for where my testing and research suggests the problem points are).
How you use the VPN will vary with the service you choose (and this really isn’t the place to be pitching paid third-party software), but the big names are usually designed to be extremely easy to use. Mine is literally just a drop down menu of locations (with a recommended closest location first) and a big button you click on to turn it on/off.
The mechanics of the fix is that you’re diverting the route the internet’s general routing system thinks is best (shortest number of bounces typically) to a different route that avoids the trouble spots. This works because the internet first calculates the shortest route to the VPN location and THEN calculates the route from there to the Homecoming servers.
The precise route that will work for you depends on where you’re located relative to the Homecoming servers. As best I can determine, the problem is somewhere in the Midwest, possibly where the Internet hops from the US to Canada (having now looked at some maps of national/international internet traffic a route through Chicago is likely; rather than Detroit as I was initially thinking... which explains why my bounce to New Jersey doesn’t noticeably affect my ping; both are about equally out of the way in terms of reaching the Homecoming servers).
Because of these two things though, there’s not a “one-size-fits-all” fix to the problem. I use New Jersey as my VPN location and it works for Ft. Wayne, IN.
But if the problem is Chicago and you’re in Wisconsin, the route to New Jersey probably goes through Chicago anyway and may not help, but VPN location of Seattle or Vancouver might cross back to Toronto using all Canadian lines.
On the other hand. If the issue is on the Canada side of Chicago to Toronto route then New Jersey would work fine from Wisconsin, but Vancouver might hit the problem and not be a fix at all.
The big problem is that the problem isn’t on your computer or Homecoming’s end; it’s someone else’s network in the middle. That means we can only really learn where the precise problem is by analyzing who is having the problems and their locations. Other than that the route is all guesswork.
Sorry but this sound like people are looking at the problem the wrong way. I did the fix that PeterDutcherJr had said and I am working fine again. So by just changing my time zone it work. But thanks for the assistance.
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On 1/14/2020 at 3:09 PM, PeterDutcherJr said:
For those using Spectrum Internet, I fixed my connection issue (so far) and no longer need to use a VPN.
I use a Spectrum provided router, and cannot afford buying my own router. So here's what I did:
- I logged into my router through it's address (192.168.1.1) in a browser. There are only around 3-4 standard addresses used on Spectrum routers, so this is a publicly used address. I imagine that means you must be using your home internet to access it. Username and password are both 'Admin'.
- Click 'Advanced'. On the left menu, click 'Admin', then click 'System'.
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Under ' Miscellaneous ', it will have a drop down for 'Time Zone'.
I live in Florida, which is Eastern Time Zone. Spectrum had mine set to Denver, Colorado, which is Mountain Time. I believe this was where my issue was. I clicked the drop down and scrolled down to 'American/New York', then clicked apply. -
It reset my internet connection, however, just to be safe, I clicked 'Reboot', which is also under 'Admin'.
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On a side note, if you wish to change your router channel, you can do this my clicking 'Network' on the top left menu, then 'Wireless', then 'Radio' (on the resulting page). The channel is found under Radio Setting as ' Control Channel'
After some research, I discovered channel 11 was the best choice, switched it and applied. It switched my to Channel 11, and my Internet speed is now stable.
Dude your a life saver, did this, since i have spectrum too, and it worked right off the bat. I didn't really buy the who VPN thing that their selling. your the best.
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So I am sorry, but I was away for a couple of months and the game was working fine, now it map servers me in about 10 min or less I see people talking about VPN and changing channels but has some one laid out a step by step plan on how to fix this that I am missing?
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