Network Error Every time

Okay, I've had the game for a while now, and I've played it only offline. I took it to a friend's house and tried to play LAN over two laptops hooked up with an Ethernet cable, and on my version it would not let me get online; i could not create a game and it would not show any current games. I got "Network Error" every time I tried to create a game.

Today I tried to play it online on the internet, I have the new update, and when I try to log in it tells me "Network Error: Disconnected from Ironclad Online". I can play other games on the internet, I have my firewalls shut off, and I am using the correct log in. Does anyone know what is causing this problem?

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the_Monk

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1. When you're trying to LAN-play, you don't go to "IronClad Online" in the game instead you use "Multiplayer". If you did that and it still wouldn't connect then simply put, you mis-configured your network while at your friends house.

2. Now that you're back home and seemingly being d/c'd from ICO I would check your connection between yourself and ICO. Please follow these instructions which I posted to another thread.......here's quoting myself from the other thread:

Try performing a "trace" to ICO from your location.

At the command-prompt, type "tracert" and the IP of ICO (I haven't played the game in a while but I seem to remember this as ICO's IP) 38.98.152.153.

To open the command-prompt, go to START >> RUN >> cmd (enter "cmd" in the RUN box) and hit enter.

eg.

c:\tracert 38.98.152.153

(it doesn't matter if your "prompt" isn't at the same location as in my example, the "tracert" command is covered by the system's "path" statement and can therefore be entered at the command-prompt at any location)

Running said "trace" to ICO, especially immediately after being disconnected should shed some light as to the location of a "bad hop" along the route to ICO.

Another thing to try would be to run a ping-test to your ISP's local gateway IP. (running IPCONFIG from the same command-prompt will show you a "default gateway" and since your computer's IP comes directly from the ISP with no router involved you can ping-test the "default gateway" like this:)

ping -t xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (that is the default gateway's IP) > pingtest.txt

The above command will start a ping-test to your ISP's router in your area (recording the info in the pingtest.txt file it's being piped to) and will keep going until you kill it by hitting CTRL-C.

I would recommend letting the ping-test run for at least 3-4 minutes after an ICO disconnection in order to get some solid data. This ping-test will help shed light on whether the connection drops are occuring close to home and need to be looked at by your ISP.

thanks,

the Monk

Try my suggestions and post back...

the Monk

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Okay, for some reason it would not let me on before I allowed it past my firewall, even after I had shut my firewall off. Before when I tried to get online with my firewall up I was not in window mode, and I couldn't get to the firewall window thing to allow the game to go online. Just opened it in Window mode, allowed it past my firewall, and it works online now. I have no idea why it wouldn't work with the firewall completely off, but whatever, it works now. Thank you for trying to help me though, it seems like you have helped a lot of people on these forums. Lol, anyways, Cya.

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