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.
I got play yesterday and this morning but tonight no joy. Haven't changed anything on my comp. If the common theme is iinet users, I wonder what route we are taking to connect to EA?
We seem to be getting packet loss at buisy times in the evening, causing the disconnects, it's like our connection is low priority and so the packets are getting dropped at these after 5pm times.
Do query iinet? Try the ifanboi page?
Are there any games connecting to US servers that people have trouble with after 5pm ie BF3 servers? I can play to Asian servers in the evening no prob, but haven't tried the other direction to America.
Tye
