Unknown Network Error

[Alcatrax]

Is this common? I cant play for more than 15 minutes before the game kicking me out without telling me what network error it is talking about.

[fisken3]

wifi

[Rizzly]

Crap upload rate probably.

[Alcatrax]

Originally posted by Rizzly:

Crap upload rate probably.

I am not sure what that means

[Rizzly]

Originally posted by Alcatrax:

Originally posted by Rizzly:

Crap upload rate probably.

I am not sure what that means

You need a decent upload speed to connect with other people or you will make them lag and lag yourself and disconnect in the most common cases. I had this unknown network error for an entire year, I couldn't play anything that had over 4 players at the same point. I would get DC otherwise.

Sometimes you get this error randomly every once in a while but if it's every 15 min like you said it's with high chance your internet.

[Practikill]

Go here, close anything that may take up bandwitdth during the test. Report back with the results.

www.speedtest.net

Ignore the ping rating, it only relates to the test server and has nothing to do with latency in any game you may be playing.

[Alcatrax]

Originally posted by Practikill:

Go here, close anything that may take up bandwitdth during the test. Report back with the results.

www.speedtest.net

Ignore the ping rating, it only relates to the test server and has nothing to do with latency in any game you may be playing.

Wow! Thats a very cool site, thank you for providing it!
The download speed is 15.07 Mbps and upload speed is 1.47 Mbps.
I'm guessing that both of those are not very fast (also explains why games take so long for me to install/download).
Is there anything I can do to improve it?

[Reddy]

Originally posted by Alcatrax:

Originally posted by Practikill:

Go here, close anything that may take up bandwitdth during the test. Report back with the results.

www.speedtest.net

Ignore the ping rating, it only relates to the test server and has nothing to do with latency in any game you may be playing.

Wow! Thats a very cool site, thank you for providing it!
The download speed is 15.07 Mbps and upload speed is 1.47 Mbps.
I'm guessing that both of those are not very fast (also explains why games take so long for me to install/download).
Is there anything I can do to improve it?

Your speeds seem more than adequate for playing GTA Online.

When you load the game up, could you go into the Rockstar Games Social Clug overlay, click the gear at the top right, click settings, and go to "network information" or something of the sort?

You should tell use what it says your NAT Type is. Generally anything except open is bad for peer to peer games like GTA Online. I'm guessing since you're having this "network error" that your NAT Type is strict, or you haven't allowed GTA V through your WIndows Firewall.

There could be more to it than that, however.

[📈Business Woof📈]

i get disconects network error etc every 10 minutes sometimes this game crashes for some reason idk...it seems that gta 5 gets more stupid i have good internet and a good pc.

[Reddy]

Originally posted by Cpt.Donut:

i get disconects network error etc every 10 minutes sometimes this game crashes for some reason idk...it seems that gta 5 gets more stupid i have good internet and a good pc.

What do you consider to be good internet and a good PC? Your standards are most likely not the same as others standards of "good".

Are you getting the crashes in Story Mode as well? There could be a cheater or a few that are just going around and crashing peoples games.


As for the network errors, you should try what I mentioned above your post.

[Practikill]

Adequate, if he has nothing else using the connection while he's playing. If I recall, I read once GTAO needs 5 down and 1 up, so he's cutting it pretty close with the upload.

Are you using anything in the background that may interrupt the connection? Things like email clients, voice chat programs or anything like that?

Back when I had crappy internet, and I was awaiting an important email, I'd leave Outlook open while I was gaming (BlackOps 2 mostly at the time) and set to check for mail every 5 mintues. My game would lag out for 5-10 seconds when it was checking for new emails. This wasn't a big problem in BO2, but GTAO uses a different system.

[Reddy]

Originally posted by Practikill:

Adequate, if he has nothing else using the connection while he's playing. If I recall, I read once GTAO needs 5 down and 1 up, so he's cutting it pretty close with the upload.

Are you using anything in the background that may interrupt the connection? Things like email clients, voice chat programs or anything like that?

Back when I had crappy internet, and I was awaiting an important email, I'd leave Outlook open while I was gaming (BlackOps 2 mostly at the time) and set to check for mail every 5 mintues. My game would lag out for 5-10 seconds when it was checking for new emails. This wasn't a big problem in BO2, but GTAO uses a different system.

No, his connection is definitely adequate. https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200525767-GTA-Online-Connection-Troubleshooting

[Practikill]

Originally posted by Feyrom:

Originally posted by Practikill:

Adequate, if he has nothing else using the connection while he's playing. If I recall, I read once GTAO needs 5 down and 1 up, so he's cutting it pretty close with the upload.

Are you using anything in the background that may interrupt the connection? Things like email clients, voice chat programs or anything like that?

Back when I had crappy internet, and I was awaiting an important email, I'd leave Outlook open while I was gaming (BlackOps 2 mostly at the time) and set to check for mail every 5 mintues. My game would lag out for 5-10 seconds when it was checking for new emails. This wasn't a big problem in BO2, but GTAO uses a different system.

No, his connection is definitely adequate. https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200525767-GTA-Online-Connection-Troubleshooting

"Adequate, if he has nothing else using the connection while he's playing"

[Reddy]

Originally posted by Practikill:

Originally posted by Feyrom:

No, his connection is definitely adequate. https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200525767-GTA-Online-Connection-Troubleshooting

"Adequate, if he has nothing else using the connection while he's playing"

I can read, thank you. It's very unlikely for programs and such that are using more than 0.5Mbps to be running in the background without the OPs knowledge...unless the OP is a complete nuttter and is trying to upload a YouTube video whilst playing GTA Online with their slow internet speed...his internet is more than adequate.


Most programs that require more than 0.5Mbps in upload speed will usually tell you. In fact, Discord tells you, even when the highest bitrate setting is only 96kbps (0.1Mbps).

[Alcatrax]

Originally posted by Practikill:

Originally posted by Feyrom:

No, his connection is definitely adequate. https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200525767-GTA-Online-Connection-Troubleshooting

"Adequate, if he has nothing else using the connection while he's playing"

I was running Discord when I was playing with a friend, but I was disconnected as fast as when it was not running(even in background).
Security System is not causing problems, as I tried disabling it and running it as well, no difference.


(Summed up)
No I wasnt running any non-essential programs in the background, not even a web browser.

[Reddy]

Originally posted by Alcatrax:

Originally posted by Practikill:

"Adequate, if he has nothing else using the connection while he's playing"

I was running Discord when I was playing with a friend, but I was disconnected as fast as when it was not running(even in background).
Security System is not causing problems, as I tried disabling it and running it as well, no difference.


(Summed up)
No I wasnt running any non-essential programs in the background, not even a web browser.

So the consensus would be that there's most likely a firewall exception issue, or your NAT Type is strict or moderate.