I'm about at my wit's end, now. I can't figure out why the UKCT server is dropping players all the time.

We host the STCC races, and on Sunday we had so many disconnection problems that we had to abandon that machine entirely and move to another. Tonight, we were racing in the Odd Combo server, and once again we were losing multiple connections at a time.

We looked at the incoming connections from Sunday, and most of those dropped were coming into the datacentre on BT-supported lines (we deduced). The datacentre is Redbus, and I can't imagine that the problem lies there, but it lies somewhere and we can't figure it.

Has anyone had constant problems like this before, and figured out the cause? If so, I'd be grateful for any help you can offer.

I've grabbed a DU Meter representation of what looks like the problem.

Does anyone recognise this periodic drop in network traffic?

UKCT.net Server admin here!!

Ok guys, Been going though the server all morning, makes many tweeks and changes to try get the above issues fixed! Now I need your help,

To find out if the changes ive made are going to result in a reliable connection, I need people on our servers! If you have spare time today, please pop onto any of our server for abit, and see how they are performing. If you encounter any problems, please post on this thread.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Regards,
David

There are 6 public ukct servers atm. 5 of them have all cars available and the LRF server is on practice mode. I could test the servers in the next few hours if someone could change cars/track to something interesting: AS North (AS7) and FXR/XRR/FZR - it's the next OLFSL race. I stay far away from all car servers.

Hiya.. I've set The BUMPERZ server to AS7/GTR. Cheers!

(iB) ukct.net BUMPERZ