I didn't expect something like this happen to me personally. It's nothing server related, but only to my client side - or well, more my ISP connection side. After having no real issues with ACE for years, I'm having huge troubles playing on any ACE server for the last 4 days. The symptoms are always the same; I get kicked for "Timeouts during the checks" always 7 minutes into the game. Alright, and now comes the strange and unfortunate part:
I was able to locate the issue down to it's root. I'm almost 100% sure that it's my ISP that's causing the timeouts. I've tried it with multiple installs from my network, also via different machines, always the same result. Now, when I connect via my university's VPN, I'm not having any timeouts at all. Only problem is, that I get huge lag spikes and packet loss due to the VPN tunnelling. My regular 50Mbit coax connection gives me a perfect, smooth ping, but always timeouts.
I'm pretty clueless at the moment; especially since it looks like it's nothing I can actually do something about it. So, right now as I see it, my only options are:
1) Quit playing
2) Wait for the ISP to undo whatever they did 5 days ago
3) Remove ACE from my servers and only play on non ACE-servers
4) Hoping on anth to read this message and hop in with additional support
What I don't understand is that my own network connection is way more stable and powerfull than the VPN one; still I get timeouts, but no timeouts on the shitty VPN connection. So my guess is that my ISP implemented some new technical methods which ACE is simply not compatible with.
Here are two winMTR logs to my gameserver in sweden (which is running ACE), the first with my own connection and timeouts and the second via my university's VPN and no Timeouts:
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| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
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| 1313a-mx960-02-ae17.aah.unity-media.net - 0 | 617 | 617 | 5 | 11 | 94 | 6 |
| 1313a-mx960-02-ae17.aah.unity-media.net - 0 | 617 | 617 | 8 | 13 | 36 | 12 |
| 84.116.132.162 - 1 | 609 | 607 | 11 | 14 | 47 | 13 |
| ae0.fra44.ip4.gtt.net - 1 | 613 | 612 | 11 | 14 | 36 | 13 |
| xe-5-3-0.stk30.ip4.gtt.net - 0 | 617 | 617 | 39 | 44 | 119 | 41 |
| bredband2-gw.ip4.tinet.net - 0 | 617 | 617 | 37 | 42 | 67 | 40 |
| cr-se-sto-kn7-2-gi0-0-0-6.bredband2.net - 0 | 617 | 617 | 38 | 41 | 64 | 39 |
| c-82-209-160-75.cust.bredband2.com - 1 | 613 | 612 | 38 | 43 | 63 | 41 |
| as51701.bredband2.net - 0 | 617 | 617 | 39 | 44 | 227 | 41 |
| 46.253.192.33 - 0 | 617 | 617 | 39 | 44 | 173 | 39 |
| 46.253.196.193 - 0 | 617 | 617 | 38 | 41 | 75 | 39 |
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| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| n7k-ww10-3-vl120.noc.rwth-aachen.de - 3 | 837 | 816 | 17 | 50 | 931 | 42 |
| n7k-lssnord-1-et2-6.noc.rwth-aachen.de - 3 | 833 | 811 | 16 | 50 | 930 | 106 |
| fw-xwin-1-vl158.noc.rwth-aachen.de - 3 | 849 | 831 | 16 | 48 | 905 | 25 |
|n7k-ww10-1-xwin-vl106.noc.rwth-aachen.de - 3 | 845 | 826 | 17 | 50 | 906 | 25 |
| cr-han1-be4.x-win.dfn.de - 3 | 845 | 826 | 24 | 61 | 1000 | 452 |
|cr-tub1-hundredgige0-6-0-0-7.x-win.dfn.de - 3 | 844 | 826 | 29 | 66 | 917 | 37 |
|be4193.rcr11.b015814-1.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com - 2 | 853 | 836 | 33 | 69 | 984 | 452 |
| be2198.ccr41.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com - 2 | 865 | 851 | 33 | 68 | 951 | 444 |
| be2281.ccr21.sto03.atlas.cogentco.com - 2 | 853 | 836 | 51 | 87 | 1002 | 458 |
| 149.11.76.158 - 3 | 829 | 806 | 51 | 91 | 1005 | 106 |
| po11-40ge.sto4.se.portlane.net - 4 | 817 | 791 | 48 | 87 | 967 | 101 |
|vl-3305-adminor-demarc.sto1.se.portlane.net - 3 | 828 | 806 | 49 | 86 | 938 | 52 |
| 46.253.196.193 - 3 | 845 | 826 | 48 | 84 | 998 | 459 |
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WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider
I would appreciate any input from you guys on this matter, as I don't see any real answer to the problem right now.