Frequent disconnect west coast

From a US based server (Wyrmrest Accord), having the same Disconnection issues constantly, getting worse over the past couple of days. Upgraded my video driver, addons, everything suggested. My ISP is AT&T. I’ve never had issues before this week. I have no problem contacting them, If you tell us what to tell them to check,
but it sure feels like you guys are passing the buck here when it seems to not be any isolated issue. Here is my WINMTR log.

WinMTR Statistics

WinMTR statistics

Host % Sent Recv Best Avrg Wrst Last
dsldevice.attlocal.net 1 456 455 3 3 44 3
76-229-100-1.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net 0 460 460 18 23 94 20
71.147.164.121 7 360 336 18 51 4882 19
12.242.115.33 3 425 416 21 23 52 21
12.245.64.10 2 433 426 21 27 124 46
ae1-br01-eqla1.as57976.net 2 436 430 29 166 1572 32
No response from host 100 93 0 0 0 0 0
et-0-0-0-pe03-swlv10.as57976.net 2 433 426 25 29 91 51
137.221.105.2 2 430 422 26 27 59 28
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Heya Dymphnà,

Splitting this off into it’s own thread. Are you by chance using a wireless connection? The first hop (your home network) has a rather big spike and that can certainly be a sign of a bad home connection. If you’re using wireless test using a wired connection, or if you’re already on a wired connection swap out to a new ethernet cord in-case the current one is damaged.

I have now replaced my modem twice with my ISP. They were out today and have checked the wiring. I am currently directly connected with an ethernet cable to my modem, yet, I get the same error. Balls in your court guys, cant keep blaming the ISP’s.

Can you post another winmtr.

The thing is, it isn’t just “blaming your isp.” your test results show what they show. If they’ve fixed the issue, your test results should reflect that, and we can start looking elsewhere.

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Sure thing, here is from my most recent disconnect. I do see the no response from host, but is the host Blizz, or the ISP?

WinMTR Statistics

WinMTR statistics

Host % Sent Recv Best Avrg Wrst Last
dsldevice.attlocal.net 0 132 132 0 0 14 0
76-229-100-1.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net 0 132 132 16 19 31 17
71.147.164.121 10 99 90 16 18 94 17
12.242.115.33 6 109 103 19 19 28 19
12.245.64.10 6 109 103 19 23 103 19
ae1-br01-eqla1.as57976.net 6 109 103 28 194 959 198
No response from host 100 27 0 0 0 0 0
et-0-0-0-pe03-swlv10.as57976.net 6 109 103 23 25 76 23
137.221.105.2 6 109 103 23 24 26 24

The home network looks decent. But later in the test we can see there are nodes losing data, because the test started with 132 packets and only 109 made it through to Blizzard. This is going to be a separate issue, not related to the home equipment.

From the data, we can conclude it is a problem inside AT&T’s network, and not a Blizzard server issue. It might be the hop before this one I linked below, but it doesn’t matter, since both are owned by AT&T and showing data loss.

https://myip.ms/info/whois/12.242.115.33

The next step forward from here is to forward these results to AT&T. This will serve to demonstrate where the issue is happening so their engineers can work to address it.

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Will do, thanks

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Something came up on another similar thread Dymphna. Check in game on the Menu > System > Network pane. If IPv6 is enabled - disable.

Many people have few or no practical gaming alternatives to AT&T thanks to the way West Coast cities like to pick local winners and losers. The game is basically unplayable at this point for people experiencing this issue. I suggest Blizzard call AT&T and manage the problem with them directly. After a decade and a half of energetically dealing with the occasional technical issues that arise in a game I have very much enjoyed, this problem has tired me out enough that I am starting to not care anymore.

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Did you check that IPv6 setting Morrie. Looking at your original thread it seems we didn’t check that.

I saw your earlier post and did look. My IPv6 option under Network is not checked.

Alright - I’m back on your original thread now

Hey Tratt,

It was not enabled, since I do not have IPv6 enabled on my network.

I did, however, have optimize network for speed enabled, I disabled that, same issue.

I worked with AT&T, they were less than helpful with finding the issue, or even understanding the issue, everything they see looks fine from their end. My newest MTR is looking like this at my last disconnect. Since AT&T cant figure out whats wrong and it looks like there is still loss, I’m seriously considering a new ISP.

WinMTR Statistics

WinMTR statistics

Host % Sent Recv Best Avrg Wrst Last
dsldevice.attlocal.net 1 593 592 2 4 54 3
76-229-100-1.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net 1 589 587 18 23 69 20
71.147.164.121 2 572 565 18 20 54 38
12.242.115.33 2 575 569 20 23 55 22
12.245.64.10 2 575 569 20 27 222 21
ae1-br01-eqla1.as57976.net 2 575 569 29 177 1160 172
No response from host 100 121 0 0 0 0 0
et-0-0-0-pe03-swlv10.as57976.net 2 575 569 25 29 149 26
137.221.105.2 2 575 569 25 27 103 26

Have you tried a cellphone hotspot or a VPN Dymphna?

I’ve tried using a VPN since Sunday. While the disconnects are less frequent, they’re still there. I’m just changing ISP’s at this point since I have no contract with AT&T.