Hey guys. I need a bit of help. Right, I used to use a Netgear router. It worked fine except it didn't have any wireless capabilities. Well recently my dad got a BT vision box and a BT home hub router to go with it. At first this was all cool and all as it worked wirelessly with laptops and what not. (We had a smaller one we used to use for wireless but its broke.)
So I eventually got used to the new router and loaded up a game of TF2. About 20 seconds in and I got connection problems and crashed. Oh dear...
So I loaded up another server thinking the other had just crashed and the second I got in, I lost connection.
Getting frustrated now I loaded up a different game (HL1) and went online to see if it would work. Yet again I got connection problems.
So seemingly the BT home hub was not made for online gaming. :S
Anyone know how to fix this? Anyone have a BT home hub and had this problem but fixed it? Any help would be much appreciated.
I have the same problem. Try to add server to favourites and connect from it, at least it worked for me.
I have a HomeHub (the small white model), and they suck for gaming, even my £40 Belkin router was better than this, they seem to crap out and completely reset every so often while using online games, BT can't make wireless gear for shit. I'm thinking of going back to Belkin. I can't seem to find any fixes either.
Hmm, glad to hear I am not the only one having the problem. I will try this adding to favourites trick. However, you can't do that for all games.
Got the same router, My old one (that rocked) broke and now i can't play Company of Heroes and many other games because of the NAT problems with it, Opening ports seemed to work for the STEAM Games like TF2 and they work fine now.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;13755194]I have a HomeHub (the small white model), and they suck for gaming, even my £40 Belkin router was better than this, they seem to crap out and completely reset every so often while using online games, BT can't make wireless gear for shit. I'm thinking of going back to Belkin. I can't seem to find any fixes either.[/QUOTE]
Belkin are very reliable. Go back to it.
Hmm, I had opened ports and it worked for a while. Recently though it has stopped working again and the ports are still open.
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So seemingly the BT home hub was not made for online gaming. :S[/QUOTE]
Try Portforward.com
If not, you said it yourself.
Buy a better router, Linksys are some of the best and Belkin's pretty kickass too.
Yeah, but the problem is my dad needs the router for BT Vision.
Use two, I was thinking of bridging the homehub and the Belkin, but that doesn't work, just try and connect another router to your phone line if you can.
I have a homehub also. There used to be a fix to these online game problems, but there was some automatic update which stopped that from working. Port forwarding also doesn't work. So no, there is no fix. The only way you would get a good connection is by putting your computer into a DMZ, which frankly should never be done.
Yeah with mine, if I refresh the server list in any source game but TF2, it restarts my router. And in TF2, the first game I join will get stuck at "sending client info", the second game I join will get connection problems within 5 seconds, and the 3rd game will work fine. It's useless. It also seems to hate torrents.
[QUOTE=ryno5660;13755688] There used to be a fix to these online game problems, but there was some automatic update which stopped that from working.[/QUOTE]
That would explain why it stopped working all of a sudden. Damn...
[QUOTE=Dr Egg;13755749]Yeah with mine, if I refresh the server list in any source game but TF2, it restarts my router. And in TF2, the first game I join will get stuck at "sending client info", the second game I join will get connection problems within 5 seconds, and the 3rd game will work fine. It's useless. It also seems to hate torrents.[/QUOTE]
I have the same problem. Like I said, there is no rational solution. Basically, you'll have to change your router to something else if you want a problem free session ever.
And Joh, the update I'm talking about is an old one
[QUOTE=ryno5660;13756672]I have the same problem. Like I said, there is no rational solution. Basically, you'll have to change your router to something else if you want a problem free session ever.
And Joh, the update I'm talking about is an old one[/QUOTE]
Sorry to bring up an old topic but my homehuib has pissed me off for the last time. what router did you change to (if you did and you see this again)
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