Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
Anyone experience a problem like this and mind explaining what's happening/the solution?
I play an MMOFPS called Gotham City Impostors. Recently I moved to a new apartment and have a different internet provider.
This sounds crazy to me, but every time I open the game - I lose my internet connection. And I'm not talking about being unable to connect to the game (it's not firewalled or anything) - I mean my entire connection. It shuts it off for my roommates as well. And I've tested this out well over a dozen times. I've surfed the web just fine for an hour, two hours, three hours . . . just to make sure it's not coincidence. Ran speedtest to make sure it's not just a bad signal (I'm anywhere from 14-22 Mbps).
But I load up the game. Within a minute of being dropped into a match I lose connection to the server because my internet goes out. I get the "no internet access" warning triangle over my connection about half the time as well. Trying to open a webpage just says "sending request" until it times out. I exit out of the game, and within 1-3 minutes I have internet access again.
If it were simply unable to connect to the game I could make sense of it - - but since it seems to cut the signal to the router off completely I don't understand what's going on. If I hadn't been experimenting with it for the past couple days trying to rule out coincidence I'd think it was a joke.
Anyone have any clue what is happening and, if so, know of any solution? (I'm tempted to simply call up the ISP but I think I'd have a hard time explaining what exactly is happening . . . so, since it's not that big of a deal at the moment I'm just trying to figure out what's going on.)
@Uber: No go. Flushed the DNS and the host file was fine. No change after flushing the DNS. I didn't run tracert as I don't know exactly if it's a website I'm trying to connect to. I run it from Steam.
But still. If it were just unable to connect to the website, shouldn't I just not be able to connect to the game? Whenever I try to get into a match it literally cuts the connection to my router. And the game requires an internet connection to sign-in. And I can monitor the internet-required things like leader boards and the like.
It's JUST whenever I try to enter a game. Not sure it's relevant but for this game, I believe, uses a peer-to-peer hosting system. Could it be something with the ISP blocking P2P stuff? (Sorry for how badly worded this is . . . I'm decent with the hardware side of computers, but networking is just not my thing.)
3 Answers
- Uber KafirLv 58 years agoFavorite Answer
I'm not positive but it could be something in your hosts list or your cache. There is a site that you connect to in order to play, right? Ping it and see what happens. If you can't ping it try a tracert command to see if maybe there's a bad router. You can also clear the DNS cache and check your hosts file in the Windows/system 32/drivers/hosts file to see if there is a flawed entry there. Here are the instructions to clear the cache:
1. Click the Microsoft Start logo in the bottom left corner of the screen
2. Click All Programs
3. Click Accessories
4. RIGHT-click on Command Prompt
5. Select Run As Administrator
6. In the command window type the following and then hit enter: ipconfig /flushdns
- pisaLv 44 years ago
nicely you need to take small steps like hugging according to hazard once you men are strolling carry her hand while shes no longer rather paying interest provide her a splash rub on the returned and tell her how captivating you think of she is purchase her some vegetation asserting which you like her some cases you gotta in simple terms choose for it get her a splash decrease than the effect of alcohol and supply her a kiss and in the adventure that your rejected the least which will take place is shell say no yet im valuable you men will nonetheless be pals when you will have to think of approximately what you quite need using fact in case you men do get right into a extreme relationship and issues bypass bitter and you men destroy up you maximum probable wont be pals after that or as sturdy of pals as you at the instant are