[nonnosub]

Hello everyone,

as I already posted in a recent past, I experienced severe troubles by trying to login with the "old" Win version since I moved to a laptop with Windows 7 onboard and through a wi-fi domestic router connection. No problem on my dektop (where operating system is Windows XP) by connecting in the same way by same wi-fi router. I tried averything I could do, included (obviously) all the compatibility features for "old" Windows software (included administrator privilege) provided by Window 7, but the Lobby stays stuck after 200 players, or sometimes, on a random base, after more players, but still before to include all of them. When trying for a random number of times, on a repeated base, SOMETIMES I'm able to login and play ... after no problems, afterwards (some 10 or 20 attempts). I'm pretty sure that the bug is connected to Win version, Windows 7 and wi-fi, as I verified that there isn't any issue by connecting on the same laptop by Ethernet cable, or even by a mobile telephone connection, like the ones based on USB ports.

Last but not least, I had to change that laptop (a SONY Vaio) with a HP Pavilion DVD6 (thanks to a thief ...), and everything was wrong again after trying to connect by Win version, Windows 7 and wi-fi router.

Please don't suggest to me to move on the Web Flash version, as I know it perfectly, and I don't like it at all, except for graphical improvements,

Any suggestion, help ... or support?

Thanks in advance
roberto

[uday]

There won't be any easy answers, I fear, but we can try these things

First, lets try another port for the connection instead of port 9999.
I don't think this has much of a chance of working but who knows.


To change to port 80:
edit c:\bridge base online\bbover.ini
change these two lines

ServerHostName1=bbo.bridgebase.com
ServerPort1=9999

so that they read


ServerHostName1=altport.bridgebase.com
ServerPort1=80

save the file and try to connect. Did that help?


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What you're describing feels like a bad connection. I've seen this sort of thing in 3 circumstances

1. Some colleges and ISP do bad things to traffic on port 9999. Switching to port 80 helps

2. Some Satellite and microwave connections (who knew) use a really small MTU size. We used to offer a way to conn to a machine with a small MTU but we stopped that a few years ago.

3. A run of the mill bad connection.


I won't suggest the web version yet, but let me ask you this - does it have any connection-type issues?


I'm uday@ & maybe we can arrange a time to try a test. You can login with the flash version so we can chat, then we can arrange for you to try to login while we trace what's going on on the network from our perspective. that might shed some light.

but try the ini file edits. maybe we'll get lucky