Connection Problem, Auto Disconnecting in X Seconds

[Landsavage]

So since the most recent patch, I want to say 3-4 days ago, my Dota 2 is acting really strange in games.

First off my internet is fine. I am doing all kinds of stuff online and nothing ever happens, its only while actually in a Dota 2 game. The game will freeze, kind of like its lag, like a dead freeze. Sometimes its long enough that the "Connection Problem, Auto disconnect in X seconds" comes up it will have some IP followed by a port number, its always in the 20k range.

So I know your going to say triple check your connection. I more than did that. I even ran a ping test to Google.com and piped it to a .txt file and checked it after the game. Everything is fine.

Now this is why I say its weird.... Lets say I am going north, or upwards on the map... freezes, OH ♥♥♥♥, right?.... say I click down to my turret.... 10 seconds later it comes back on.... I am standing exactly where I clicked. The game is still going and my outgoing commands are being issues to the server because its responding to me while I am "disconnected"

I disabled Firewall, Antivirus, Cleared game cache, reboot numerous times, shoot right now I disabled anything that could even talk to the net to see if a program is malfunctioning, but I am almost certain its not because it's only while in-game for Dota 2.

Am I the only one experiencing this? It's consistant too. Everytime I play, every 1-5 minutes I get a 1-15 seconds spike, game says I am offline and disconnecting but when it comes to, I did exactly everything I told it to do. ♥♥♥♥ I even won a few fights and when I got control back, people are like "nice job" but I guessed all the buttons and actions and got lucky (that's pretty rare I usually die).

Going to try a west server now. I play US East normally.

[puddy tat]

Uninstall, Reinstall

[Landsavage]

Did nothing. I uninstalled steam too.

[Landsavage]

Bump. Anyone experiencing this, still the same.

[The Newbie Guy]

This has happened to me too (since three days ago...)

[RelliK]

even if i changed my router also i still got the disconnection problem,next step "chagning isp probably"?

[random]

Do you play other mp games? Do you experience same issue with other games?

I get this same behaviour in every game I play on steam (nmrih, ns2, dota). Randomly it just stops responding for a few seconds OR disconnects. I haven't had this problem in other games (SC2, D3).

Weird enough, I noticed that on occasions when I streamed something random on the background, I never got this disconnect issue.. and that makes no sense at all, I know. So since that I always put on some random stream and play. Except last night. And I got a huge lag, almost dc.

I'm pretty sure these two separate things have absolutely nothing incommon, but I like my tinfoilhat and I'm keeping it where it sits.

[RelliK]

well it's funny/wierd to say that it's steam/valve servers prob while my friends/others can normally play but well okay my net connection might be sh1t comper to others e.x vdsl connections but still those guys got the same prob as me so i will say is valve servers prob

[Landsavage]

Mine locks up though, says I am disconnecting (like I am having net problems), but when the game comes back to, my hero has done everything I have asked him too (like I was not having net problems at all).

I have asked others if they have the problem, some said no, some said they have, but no one I have ran into is having them consistantly every 30-60 seconds during every game.

It's like there is packet loss, but it appears to be in receiving, not transmitting because like I said, my hero responds, even while lagged out.

[Nabuco]

Me too. I have the exact same issue, Intert works, Steam works, Dota starts fine, then DC message, and even there I still have audio of everything that is happening. (Including the hero speaking as I perform actions with they) but image is frozen. And I did pretty much everything you did too, looking and waiting for a solution for days now.

[Landsavage]

Originally posted by Nabuco:

Me too. I have the exact same issue, Intert works, Steam works, Dota starts fine, then DC message, and even there I still have audio of everything that is happening. (Including the hero speaking as I perform actions with they) but image is frozen. And I did pretty much everything you did too, looking and waiting for a solution for days now.

I am glad its not just me. I just did a test on pingtest.net and got no packet lose and 60ms ping times. It's definately Dota2

[random]

So you got this disconnect thing and in the background you ran timestamped pings to other sites which didn't time out? that is interesting. Do you have a router?

[HellDuke]

This seems to be a problem on the client side and there is not much you can do a bout it. I saw this today when I started up the game and tried to spectate a friends game. My friends said this was happening too. What I will say is that I saw none of this in the linux client. Answer - go linux :D

[Block Nadia]

we have this problem when we play on LAN or local lobby after the updade 3 days ago

[Sanke]

Oh i have the same problem but not only playing Dota 2 it happen when i play Team Fortress 2 too :/

[Landsavage]

Yes pings never fail. I will have tried pingtest.net too numerous times, pretty minor jitter, so the ping times are consistant.

I am going to run a ping and dump it to text for a whole game.

Yes I have an Asus router, works very well, only 3 months old.

I did not know DOTA 2 ran on Linux... To be honest the ONLY reason I sitll run Windows is games. I primarily play DOTA, but you know I do wander off to other games once in awhile, so I don't know if I can make that switch yet. I am really happy to hear that though.

I have deleted and reinstalled Steam and DOTA, that didn't do anything either.

I wish I know the IP or hostname of the server I was playing on, I would rather run a ping test to it.