Winsock Problem

[GoatIronMaidn]

It appears that XP has some of the same online gaming problems that W2K had. Whenever I try to host a game of Quake 2, I go along fine for a couple of minutes and then it shuts down to the console and gives me a &quot;WSAECONNRESET from <ip address>&quot;

I understand it has something or other to do with Winsock. I've read the knowledge Base artices on it. But I haven't found a solution that works.

It would have been nice to blame this one on Comcast and thier anti-gaming policy, but it is a windows problem.

Anyone have any ideas how to disable what needs to be disabled?

 

[linney]

Are you playing this over a dial up connection. If so make sure you haven't set it to auto disconnect after a period of time. There is a little bit of information here......

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&q=WSAECONNRESET+windows+xp&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=WSAECONNRESET+windows+xp+quake&btnG=Google+Search

 

[GoatIronMaidn]

I have run the same searches. I have even contacted hundreds of people who have made those posts and none were able to give a resolution to the problem. MS even has an article that is closely related for Win2k:

http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q317506

But, it is written for sys admins and programmers and I can't make heads or tails of it. There is also one specifically for XP, but I can't find the url at the moment. This has been going on since the inception of the Quake series and all other games that use the Quake engine. I just can't seem to figure our why 25% of the people running these games have this exact problem and noone has ever resolved it that I've contacted.