Seems fine now: PC multiplayer is back to normal-as-can-be to the EA USA servers (inc. Mass Effect 3) for me and the EA Server dropouts have gone back to being a once-a-day thing instead of every single attempt.
Can't believe it took five ISPs from Australia and public members of the forum from around the region shouting at Level3.net to fix their Los Angeles routers to get it done. It would have been nice to have EA Support pushing some influence on them too given how many of their USA-based multiplayer game servers were specifically affected.
I'll still be watching this issue over the next week incase it falls over again.
@TheDesertRunner wrote:Seems fine now: PC multiplayer is back to normal-as-can-be to the EA USA servers (inc. Mass Effect 3) for me and the EA Server dropouts have gone back to being a once-a-day thing instead of every single attempt.
Can't believe it took five ISPs from Australia and public members of the forum from around the region shouting at Level3.net to fix their Los Angeles routers to get it done. It would have been nice to have EA Support pushing some influence on them too given how many of their USA-based multiplayer game servers were specifically affected.
I'll still be watching this issue over the next week incase it falls over again.
Spoke too soon. After playing Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer for three hours straight (11:00PM to 2:00AM WST, +8 GMT) with minimal lag issues I got cut off from the EA Server and thrown back to the main menu.
New error is "Origin must be online to play this game." Closed out of Mass Effect 3 and checked Origin Application... yep, I'm stuck in Offline Mode and can't go online. Clicking on "Go Online" causes nothing to happen.
Done with this for tonight as it might be an EA Server error throwing everyone offline. I'll check it again in eight hours.
(Edit: Added timeframe details)
