"You have been disconnected"Follow

A couple months ago, Everquest ran perfectly on this computer. Real Life took me away from the game, but I am now back on an even keel and decided to come back to the game. However, I can't seem to play....

When I first logged back in, I didn't have much time, so I was just going to put my trader up and leave. I got all the way into the game, pulled up the trade window, but couldn't get into trade mode. After a few minutes of wondering what was going on, I got "You have been disconnected." I logged back in, got trader mode working fine, but couldn't search the bazaar. "You have been disconnected."

I tried logging back in later that night with a different character. I couldn't even get into the world. After several attempts, I went to bed frustrated.

Today, I decided to creat a character on a different server. I got into the tutorial and even killed the jailer. But it hung on the zone into the mines.

Any suggestions as to what is going on here would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: BTW, I have cleaned my computer out with compressed air. I have also deleted the zone files and all that jazz. I have turned off my firewall and anti-virus software.

Edited, Fri Mar 31 21:53:00 2006 by mrtiedye

Hi, hope this helps..
When I used to play, the "You have been disconnected" black screen usually came up if the internet cord was pulled by my little brother lol. I'm guessing your being disconnected is because your internet connection keeps cutting out. Have you tried turning off your computer, and resetting your modem and then router if you have one and then booting it back up. That usually worked with me. Make sure your cords are all plugged in securely and they arn't kinked.

I blamed EQ, but it turned out 99% of my disconnects are the cable company (not that often or long so hard to track). They are replacing streches of cable, and it has improved, but not fixed. EQ (I was surprised at this) holds connection well, I can unplug the router/modem and if fast enough (30 seconds or so), reset without completely disconnecting from EQ, if I see the lights going. The router demands to be unplugged and replugged each time connectivity drops.

Your ISP should have places you can do upload/download/speed tests, eliminating software issues. Since I have started using Charter Cable's speed tests and so on, I have been able to provide great proof of connectivity problems. It should not take long on the phone to eliminate your ISP, and it can't hurt.

Video card drivers can also be a problem. If you were off a couple of months, there was probably a video card update in there somewhere. A hot video card can also be a problem.

At least with EQ you can count on a patch soon, and that can stealth fix many EQ problems.

Speed Test

Charter

Not finding the others in favorites, but I am sure Charter could tell you.

PS Don't let them destroy the siding on your house. long story, pending claims.

I'm so compulsive I made a little Excel chart, a nice little line graph, including upload/download speeds (compared to the max it should be), doing it every hour, recording times (cable company was not paying much attention to our previous complaints, the chart seemed to boggle them, produced much action, including the destruction of a portion of our siding, while we wait patiently for reimbursement).

Our downloads drops occasionally to sometimes only 3 or 4 times faster than dial up, usualy more like half to 3/4 of max (3.0 mb/s is where it should be). Print out page 2 of 2 to present to the cable company, if needed, since you don't seem to be hitting max, but you're pretty close.

Check it especially when you get lag. We do get max a lot of the time, since we have an intermitant problem (and more people online at same time of course reduces it somewhat).

Hope you get on EQ soon.

Edited, Sun Apr 2 12:32:51 2006 by Kelti

I was having this same problem and tried everything you mentioned, even updated my video card driver. I finally solved it by getting a new router. Cleared up the problem.

Here is an odd quesstion. What operating system do you run and how long has it been since you installed/reinstalled it?

I had serious disconnect issues with EQ once, and then one day I decided to try reinstalling Windows XP. All my issues went away.

You do not need to install EQ copying it works fine, just a reminder.

You can back it up and copy it back and it works great.