I run a small WiFi hot-spot and sadly do I see the occasional mobile phone spamming the upstream with traffic to the maximum for no reason. People aren’t even aware that there is such a thing as anti-virus software for mobile phones. When I tell them to install it and they see messages popping up about a virus on their phone do they always look surprised. And I cannot blame. For many is a mobile phone only a small device and completely harmless in their view. Anyone can become the bad guy …
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since my post is dead, i’ll post here. I’m jumping on the bandwagon. I’ve been back in game for the last 24 or so days. I want to online more accounts, but i’m getting socket closes way to frequently to justify that. I’ve been logged in for 30 min. as of now and have had 2 accounts close on me 3 times each.
If i ping google, i’m at 20 m/s, no packet loss. internet speeds are 500 down and 60 up. I’m using my isp tools to make sure that there are no issues on that end, there’s nothing, signals are great and no noise on the line.
why have i had non stop chat disconnect issues and socket closes? it’s got nothing to do with ddos. I’ve seen WAY to many other people post about this as well to know that it’s not a just me thing.
I was getting the socket lost error too. I uninstalled and reinstalled and it let me log in. I don’t know if I will get another socket lost error again or not. But for now, it is working.
There are market orders with malformed data that we need to clean up. We are manually working around the issue until the clean up has taken place.
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Any update on the login server issues?
This may sound silly but if you’re having login/authentication issues with the launcher - reboot your ROUTER. I did that and now it connects fine.
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It is quite possible that when you reboot your router that you get a new external IP address. This in turn may resolve weird connection issues if there is a network block/issue somewhere between you / your ISP and EVE’s login server. So this is absolutely not silly.
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What if I can’t restart my router/get a new IP?
- Check that you don’t have any viruses on your PC and on any other network devices (including any mobile phones, tablets and laptops that may connect to your router). You want to be sure that you don’t have any malware hidden in your network, which is abusing your Internet connection and may give cause to your ISP and remote ISPs to block you out or only to filter some of your traffic.
- Then contact your ISP and ask them to reset your connection, request a new IP address and ask them to check for any blocked traffic. Ask if you’ve given them any reason to do so or if you’re in the clear. Basically, you want to be sure you’re not the cause of any of this.
- If still nothing comes up create a ticket with CCP and let them know.
- In the meantime can one use a VPN (i.e. SoftEther) to work around it by routing one’s traffic over a VPN server and thus appear as a member of a different network.
- Worst case would be to change ISP and to get a better one.
I’m not on a PC, this is a server in the cloud. Getting a new IP is a shitload of work as the certificate is tied to the domain/IP.
I would like to CCP help with this as they probably understand this better.
If you’re paying for the server then you should contact support (of the company who is providing the server). You may not get the response you’re looking for from CCP or you may have to wait a while until you do, and it’s better when you get both ends of your connection checked out. Or have patience.
You’re playing EVE from a remote virtual instance?
I believe he is running a 3rd party app.
The bane of cloud gaming. Getting way too popular imo. Though I am probably a little biased as so much dual alpha / alpha + omega / botting drama uses that. And nitwits running multiple cloud gaming instances during fleet fights.
If I remember correctly Blizzard has banned it.
Ah allright. There were some ESI issues earlier, but the API calls are done to a different server than the login iinm.
Yup, that was my original thought. That or him tunneling all his traffic through an external server, to not let his company know he’s playing EVE during work 
You need the login server to get tokens for the ESI authentication. And he already said he is checking many characters with ESI. My guess is his app contacts the login server more often than a normal game client does and it then falls victim to the counter measures, which may see his increased number of connects as a threat. At least that’s what I would expect to happen.
It might be a good idea if CCP were to create two separate login services. One for 3rd party apps and one only for the game clients. This way the filtering could be made stricter for the game clients and so to provide a more robust access to the game for the players. While the ESI authentication could get their own with more relaxed filtering. One side effect of such a separation would be that 3rd party apps couldn’t contribute to DDoS attacks, which is currently always a risk.
This. From what I see esi is running super smooth, just the login server is fucki ng up.
Nope, I already checked that with other devs and the number of requests is less than what you produce when browsing amazon.