Connection timed out

ProggerPete · Post by **ProggerPete** » December 28th, 2007, 8:01 pm

I'm unable to join the official server because it tells me the connection timed out.

How can I fix this, or is the problem elsewhere?

I was able to connect yesterday.

ProggerPete · Post by **ProggerPete** » December 28th, 2007, 8:40 pm

are other ppl able to connect at the moment?

Clonkinator · Post by **Clonkinator** » December 29th, 2007, 9:34 am

ProggerPete wrote:are other ppl able to connect at the moment?

I had no problem to connect yesterday. Just try it again today.

ProggerPete · Post by **ProggerPete** » December 29th, 2007, 5:07 pm

Yeah, works again now. No idea what changed.

ProggerPete · Post by **ProggerPete** » December 29th, 2007, 5:45 pm

And now I can't connect again....

Clonkinator · Post by **Clonkinator** » December 29th, 2007, 10:20 pm

If you seem to be unable to connect, just try it again a few hours or a day later. If it keeps happening however, there might be something else wrong. However, I again was perfectly able to connect today - several times.

Gogora · Post by **Gogora** » December 31st, 2007, 8:26 am

Yeah, I've been getting problems with connecting to the wesnoth official server too. Usually by just waiting and trying again, it fixes itself. But it happens too often now. I'm a little suspicious about what is actually wrong with that server.

Gogora · Post by **Gogora** » December 31st, 2007, 9:37 am

Well, I connected through the timeouts and guess what I found? I found that I was connected to a german server, redirected from the main wesnoth server. This is all self-explanatory.

Anyone else connecting to wesnoth servers in germany?

Post by **Soliton** » January 1st, 2008, 11:51 pm

Gogora wrote:I found that I was connected to a german server, redirected from the main wesnoth server. This is all self-explanatory.

Anyone else connecting to wesnoth servers in germany?

server.wesnoth.org is the same as gonzo.dicp.de which is in germany. I'm unsure what you're trying to say.

Gogora · Post by **Gogora** » January 15th, 2008, 6:22 am

Well, if your on the other side of the globe, it will time out and be slower - more often then people who play in germany. You understand why this happens, yes?

Gogora · Post by **Gogora** » January 15th, 2008, 6:58 am

Hi, yeah.

I got a link explaining "lag". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag

It's a little more detailed then me just saying that it's self-explanatory. Sorry about that. Yes, americans feel the brunt of german server lag.

I do recall that I connected to a more local server in a different area of the world, a few monthes ago. But I could've been mistaken I suppose. It was a pretty sweet lag time though, so I doubt that. Wonder what happened to that good old server... sigh. Maybe it's because I play early early morning all the time.

Post by **Soliton** » January 15th, 2008, 8:37 am

Gogora wrote:I got a link explaining "lag". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag

I do indeed know what lag means, thanks. What wasn't clear was what you find self-explanatory.. but I can guess that now.

Gogora wrote:I do recall that I connected to a more local server in a different area of the world, a few monthes ago. But I could've been mistaken I suppose.

The only alternate server we have is in France.

schedal · Post by **schedal** » January 24th, 2008, 2:11 pm

I'm also getting more and more games where the game stops midway and I get the error
"game can not continue, do you wish to save?"
"server not found/can't ping server for Â±66 seconds"

i didn't used to get this error, now i get it every 2 or 3 games! that's quite frequent. I've also encountered the error when both myself and my opponent were playing each other via the official server from Amsterdam [so that's pretty close to Germany in terms of network hops].

Is this a general known hick-up in the server as of late? Or is there some kind of local issue going on in my network? No ping for 60 seconds is pretty bad lag!

Thanks,

Sebastian.

suvorov · Post by **suvorov** » January 24th, 2008, 8:52 pm

[quote="schedal"]I'm also getting more and more games where the game stops midway and I get the error
"game can not continue, do you wish to save?"
"server not found/can't ping server for Â±66 seconds"

I get the same error/message. Today it happened in the middle of a game and then I could not log back into the server.... in fact im writing this because I can't get back onto the multiplayer dev server. I played all day and suddenly it just went out on me.

I guesss I ll keep trying.