I am still experiencing problems connecting/synching. Below are the specs for the machine I am on now; my other newer systems (iBook Pro and an HP ProBook with Windows experience the exact same issue trying to connect to the VASSAL server.
- Model: Gateway NV59C
- Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium SP1
- CPU: Intel(R) Core™ i3 CPU M 350 @ 2.27 GHz
- Memory: 4.00 GB
- Video Card:
- Vassal version: 3.2.15
- Java version: 1.6.0_34 (Java 6 Update 34)
- Vassal module name and version: VASL 6.2.0
- Exactly what steps are required to reproduce your problem: Attempt to connect to the VASSAL server to play live online. It takes approximately 30 seconds - 5 minutes to bring up the Main Room, and each action thereafter (creating a room, joining an existing room, messaging other users) takes anywhere from 30 seconds to 10 minutes to complete.
I am an AT&T (Uverse) customer as are others reporting this problem, so I contacted the AT&T “support” center tonight. They were unable to provide any real insight; in their view, there is no problem since my general latency and upload/download speeds are acceptable.
I ran reset all systems, tried wireless/wired, ran some ping tests (average over 250 ms with about 15-30% packet loss), trace routes (see below), released/renewed/flushed the connection/DNS and other basic tasks, but I have not been able to determine what is going on. Below is a recent traceroute to 68.14.242.201 which I believe is the IP address for the VASSAL game server. I am definitely not a network guru… Does anybody have any thoughts?
[code]Tracing route to two.vassalengine.org [68.14.242.201]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 ms < 1ms 2 ms homeportal [192.168.1.254]
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- Request timed out.
21 ms 18 ms 20ms 71.150.32.178
20 ms 21 ms 19 ms 12.83.42.129
32 ms 32 ms 33 ms gar27.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.77]
33 ms 31 ms 30 ms ae-9.r01.dllstx04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.8.237]
- Request timed out.
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- 29 ms 34 ms ae-1.r20.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.10]
- 79 ms * ae-3.r20.lsanca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.69]
65 ms 66 ms 67 ms ae01.r04.lsanca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.2]
66 ms 67 ms 66 ms ae-4.r00.lsanca19.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.6.203]
78 ms * 77 ms ae-0.cox.comm.lsanca19.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.194.166]
90 ms 98 ms 100 ms chnddsrj01-ae1.0.rd.ph.cox.net [68.1.5.211] -
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- Request timed out.
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- Request timed out.
114 ms 115 ms 109 ms router.nexiliscom.com [70.167.214.190]
- Request timed out.
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- 114 ms 116 ms two.vassalengine.org [68.14.242.201].[/code]