I've been trying to play LFS all day today but every server i join, i lag out and get disconnected after about 2 minutes. This wasn't happening yesterday when i was playing, and i havent changed anything. Also, other online games are working fine, so it seems to be a problem specific to LFS. Does anyone know what the problem might be?

no problems here, try disabling your firewall (AND the windows one, which shouldn't be on when another one is installed), if that doesn't work try phoning your isp to see if anythings been done at their end

After pinging a website many times, i noticed every once in awhile there was a timeout, so it was just a problem with my ISP it seems. Rebooting my router and modem fixed the problem it looks like I guess LFS is just more sensitive to these timeouts than some other games (which is probably a good thing).

Thanks for the reply, and sry for wasting forum space

one thing you may notice (it's happened to me a few times) is that the network cables dies, which is noticeable by their being no connection, which is easy to track down, however i have had one of the wires inside the cable break (only found out via a cable tester!), which meant downloads would stop and that web pages would part load before stopping, as Firefox was missing 1/8 th of the packets, and eventually decided it wasn't worth continuing to load

The moral? have a spare cable (or usb connection to the router if thats whats your router does) and plug it into another port on the router (could just be something in between the contacts) and try your pc on that before anything else, as if the problem is at your end then it is either usually quick to fix, or then at least you know what bits to buy!

[random]A friend of mine (who shall remain nameless) once had problems with his "Livebox", Wanadoo's name for it's all singing, all dancing wireless pyramid of joy which never worked for him. He called Wanadoo many times who assured him that everything should work fine, and the BT Line test showed no problems. Eventually he got so annoyed at "their appaling customer service" he thought "**** em, i installed the drivers and it worked fine, why don't they tell people to do that?" #sighs#[/random]

You haven't wasted forum space!

Because of the proximity of the other cars during a race, LFS does depend on good connections. By good, I don't mean expensive. You can play LFS on a dial-up connection. But it has to be a reliable connection, with little or no packet loss.

Very often restarting your router will solve these problems. Sometimes wireless connections need a little extra attention. Otherwise, if you're losing connections to lots of LFS servers, and - as in your example, pings are showing packet loss, then chase down your ISP. There is no reason to accept packet loss on the nose and your ISP can usually do something about it, if the problem is persistent

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Because of the proximity of the other cars during a race, LFS does depend on good connections. By good, I don't mean expensive. You can play LFS on a dial-up connection. But it has to be a reliable connection, with little or no packet loss.

Such as me . Dialup with very very rarely a problem with disconnects or others seeing me lag. I've been running lately on full grid AS National servers with disconnects only when I'm in spectate and I jump to a browser to look something up or foolishly try to grab a skin download now and then while spectating. Sometimes it works downloading the skins on the server. Other times I'll disconnect during download, grab the skins from the replay and then rejoin.

And nice Avatar, Sam .

Hiya buddy! Welcome back.. you've been quiet a few weeks! Good to see you about again!