Dear Blizz,
running a dungeon, getting disconnected because of like our 24h rule in germany and after reconnecting to find myself in town again is a no-go!
Please make this game more QoL and let us join, where we left!!!
Is the 24 hour reconnect always the same time? Or does it randomly change?
what on earth is a 24h reconnect rule lmao.
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I’m also extremely curious 
it should be every 24h but sometimes its random.
yes. i thought about to reconnect before playing but other connected ppls need to work and have video conference or so, so i cant reconnect on my wish…
i’m annoyed because i did a main quest dungeon and was in there for 30 minutes or more, got kicked and need now to do all over again, even the dialogs!!!
thats really really annoying!
I guess your only solution is to play as far away from the normal 24 hour reconnect and hope it doesn’t happen again. I don’t think Blizzard is going to change anything based on Germany’s very unique internet regulations.
in germany, the internet provider reconnects you every 24h.
that sounds not fun. but id set an alarm and manage around it or something.
why do they do that btw what’s their reason for it?
so i looked this up, nothing to do with blizzard, the local ISP have something called Zwangstrennung where they force disconnect internet every 24 hours for a few minutes till 10 minutes from what i have been able to read so far. (translating comments i found) and then allow people back on, sometimes with a new ip address. i guess its their way to prevent someone from being online 24 hours a day 7 days week (internet addiction)
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hmm. weird. an addict will have no issues waiting 10 minutes to keep indulging lol
seems like a lot of hassles for little efficiency.
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Neither old Unitymedia nor Vodafone ever DC you. I remember T-Online doing this shjt to assign a new IP and prevent you from hosting a server.
Are they still doing this in 2023?
can you elaborate on this rule?
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you can reply in german, if it makes it easier to explain.
well…
im a diablo fan since D1 and its not common for me to start in town again and losing progress if you get disconnected…
good old times… sigh
its not just our problem of 24h forced reconnect…
its just… loosing progress because of getting disconnected is a no go…
well…
its not just our problem of 24h forced reconnect…
its just… loosing progress because of getting disconnected is a no go…
to answer Qs:
yes, you’ll get a new IP address then and luckily it only takes some seconds and not up to 10 minutes! 
if i remember right, cable internet user dont have this.
only the other users like me…
I had this with my O2 provider - 4am i got disconnected. Some other providers did that too, but it’s usually late at night. I don’t know the reason for it but it shouldn’t be a big issue unless you’re playing at night regularly.
id become a literal politician and run for office just to remove this rule if i were german.
i live in germany… you can turn this off in most provider settings.
off-topic:
if i would be a literal politician i would go agains our GEZ! 
(the price you have to pay for our official TV-channels and you have to pay, even if you dont watch it!)
not a blizzard issue, you are obviously aware of it - keep track and manage your time yourself.
If you TP to town between save points on a dungeon quest it can also reset on you. If you watch carefully as you do quests, it tells you when you hit a save point with a text notification. If something happens between those save points you have to re-do that part.
Yes, I found that out the hard way.
We don’t have a rule about it in NA but a lot of cable companies do firmware updates at 2AM.
Doesn’t happen all the time but if it’s 2AM on the dot and we know why.
Fiber is available finally in my area. Need to look into that.