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Anonymous
13 years ago
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How do I fix my "connection to the server timed out" error?

I've spent a month or so looking around online for a solution to the problem, but nothing I've tried has worked. Basically the problem is that every now and then - anywhere from every 5 minutes to e...
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  • Carbonic's avatar
    Carbonic
    13 years ago

    Ah, didn't know it was a laptop.

    Well, alot of laptops suffer from overheating which can cause all kinds of problems. The only two things you can really do about it is to:

    • Buy a laptopcooler, which cools the laptop from underneath
    • Remove the dust in the laptop - spraying it off using compressed air is the most effective method.

    You format your computer by googling and finding a comprehensive guide, but in general steps it's:

    • Take backup
    • Format your harddrive (effectivly deleting everything on your computer)
    • Install Windows anew.

    Please accept the solution if it's correct and press the XP button if somebody helped you.

    Cheers
    -Carbonic

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
13 years ago

I don't play any other intensive games online on pc, but I do occasionally diconnect even on TF2, which is relatively light.

I connect via wifi from my Airport Extreme, which is connected to my modem (don't know what kind; my ISP is Bell if that helps, since they supplied the modem)

I haven't updated my drivers and don't really know how to

I've had this problem on at least five different servers, all with ping under 50ms

I believe there's an update available for my router, which I'll update before I try playing again

No I haven't tried tried directly connecting to my modem but that's a good idea; I'll try that

I don't know if other people using the internet, downloading, etc makes it disconnect more, but the rate of disconnection fluctuates like crazy so that could definitely be the case

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Carbonic
Hero+
13 years ago
  1. TF2 is not light on network traffic since there's many players. so that means it's not Battlefield's or EA's fault 🙂
  2. Now I don't know how far you are away from your wifi and what quality it is, but using a cable instead might help
  3. Look here how to update: https://help.ea.com/article/finding-devices-and-updating-drivers or just google it - your network card drivers are the most important
  4. Ok, problem is in several servers which means the server is not to blame
  5. Yes please update your router
  6. If connecting directly to your modem fixes it, then we know the router is to blame
  7. Well, testing this seems straight forward, test it when you are the only one there

I hope this will lead to you solving your problem, I think I have been pretty helpfull so please click the xp button at my usefull posts and if this fixes and when you figure out what the problem is and thus it's solution then accept it so others with similar problems can find this thread easier 🙂

 

Looking forward to hear how it goes.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Ok thanks for the help; hopefully I'll be able to get it working. 

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