OK, so I'm on iinet as well (they own westnet too btw), so it looks like the issue may be related to the ISP.
I've been having a lot of trouble too, but I am usually able to get in after a few attempts. I get the same disconnect after first round errors, and the missing equipment too.
However, when I get to the multiplayer menu, I go straight to my equipment menu, if I can't choose any weapon mods, then I exit out to the main screen and reconnect multiplayer. Once I get in and can choose my mods, the game seems pretty stable.
I thought it might be ISP related (I'm iinet as well), so when I was having issues I disconnected and used my iphone as a tether modem
It's on Telstra, so different carrier, but it had the same problem.
I've use tether before to play multiplayer operations when I was away for work and speed was pretty good.
iinet as well. Well pretty much since I last posted I've gone back to having difficulty connecting. I sent an email off to tech support and got the same bog standard answer "did you try turning it on and off again, firewalls (If I had a firewall blocking the game I wouldn't be able to connect to EA servers when its first starting). At this rate, I may turn off my router for 20 secs or so and try again. I know I have another friend and they've been able to connect perfectly well. Games like Shogun 2 work perfectly well, I can also connect to the DA2 servers without issue (doing another play through currently).
Yes, same here. I'm good again during the day so I did the entire weekend challenge between lunch and 4pm today. Just in case.
Connection problems after 5pm are still an issue. But only with ME3.
I'm good with all my other online games, including the WoW servers which also run from the States.
