Gamespy network unstable/partly unplayable

[Old_Aeon]

Following problems:
1) When I joined a game after a random amount of time I get disconnected (looks like the host kicked me), but I know he didn't cause I know the host. It also happens often to almost full (4on4) games that suddenly 4 of 5 of the players suddenly leave (disconnect) at the same time.
It is far more than annoying.

2) This evening (the past 3 hours) it seemed like the whole lobby system was not working properly, I could not connect to many of the games open.

Please fix this asap, multiplayer is extremely annoying when you have 8 people finally in a game and suddenly half of them gets disconnected due to gamespy.

[TBS]

Yeah, this has already been reported (http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=65598).

[ForgottenSpirit]

yea, but TBS, will we ever get an explination for these things, its all well and good that its reported, but the kickbug has been a serious problem for a long tim, and the lobby connection is getting more frequent..

[TBS]

Id like an explanation as much as you, hopefully uber can pressure the Relic guys to harass gamespy.

[ForgottenSpirit]

Sounds good to me, even if they cant sort it ASAP, if we could just be told why it would help. Its really putting me off of dawn of war at the moment, because i simply dont hvae the time to sit and wait so long for a game.

[Worf]

I recognized a really crazy thing yesterday:
It seems to depend on the room you are in. We tried to get 6 guys into a game yesterday in solar. We tried it several times, different hosts, the usual problems, at least one of us was not able to get into the game.
So we switched to Ultima and it worked almost immediately (3rd attempt I think). Now THAT's strange.

The point is: it might really be gamespy, not the crappy NAT (at least it's not entirely the NAT) as a I always suspected.

[Moe]

According to Tacit, Relic is looking into the issue and requesting more info from Gamespy. Until then we really don't need three seperate threads on the same subject.