Playing On My Own Server
Kage
Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2016Members
in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">Varied errors</div> Yesterday I set up a server on one of the computers in my home. It has a p4 2 ghz, with 128 mb of ram. The server isn't meant to be a public server, just a little one for me and my friends from school. Everybody can play fine on the server with minimal pings (around 30, but everybody lives near me), except for me.
I play off of another computer in my home that shares the cable internet connection through a router, and I have a low ping, but the server kicks me at seemingly random times. The computer has a p3 700 mhz, with 256 mb of ram. It gives me varied errors, including svc_bad and illegal user msg xxx. From what I can tell, there's some problem with playing through a router, since nobody else gets these errors. Also, I don't usually get these errors when playing on public servers.
Strange things also happen while I'm playing as a commander- I can't drop buildings to be built. It plays a clanking noise whenever I try to place a structure. This may or may not be related, but it very well might be.
Is there a way to stop this from happening, or am I not supposed to be playing on a dedicated server on my network?
I play off of another computer in my home that shares the cable internet connection through a router, and I have a low ping, but the server kicks me at seemingly random times. The computer has a p3 700 mhz, with 256 mb of ram. It gives me varied errors, including svc_bad and illegal user msg xxx. From what I can tell, there's some problem with playing through a router, since nobody else gets these errors. Also, I don't usually get these errors when playing on public servers.
Strange things also happen while I'm playing as a commander- I can't drop buildings to be built. It plays a clanking noise whenever I try to place a structure. This may or may not be related, but it very well might be.
Is there a way to stop this from happening, or am I not supposed to be playing on a dedicated server on my network?
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We had a dedicated server runnig on uor network and we all played on it (CS students)
though it is possible that it is diff b/c we run through a switch (though not possitive on that)
bah
Hopefuly MonsE will be over soon, he knows much more on this stuff then the rest of us
The disconnects seem to be related to the entity count of the map, and also the number of things that have been built.
I've tried and given up hosting a server behind this 4 port router of mine. I did some searches in the past, and many people have had issues with it. Use the search button and search for "linksys" and "server' and you'll find most of those posts.
In addition, I discovered that whenever my computer was set as DMZ host, extended use of Voice Communications would cause me to disconnect from any internet server. Just another quirk of the router.
However, did everybody have problems when they connected to your server, or was it only you?
After that, I quit getting the disconnect errors. But people from the internet (mostly friends testing) would get the svc_bad errors and all sorts of bad info. For as much as I tried tweaking it, I gave up. I think some people have gotten lucky, but I've yet to find a surefire way to make it work.