Wirehead Studios

Ugh... First the European server went down, then the forums.

It's good to have you back. But there are still some problems woth the European sever.  For  a few days it wasn't visible at all in "The all seeing Eye".
Now I everything is fine for me but  Ashen cannot. connect. He keeps getting a timeout out, which is a bit weird, since we have basicly the same connection.  If any of you guys can help, please do..

UPDATE: ok, so I get a timeout as well. But the game server works fine with me, while Ashen still cannot connect. and he cannot access the forums as well

We did have some technical difficulties, but they've since been resolved and both are back online for the forseeable future.  About those timeouts, what kind of connect are both of you on?  Are you behind any firewalls?  The server is located in Amsterdam, so I'm not sure if geography might be a concern as well.  If you can do a traceroute to the server and email it to Dicion maybe we can help pin down what's causing the trouble.  I'm guessing it's a router between here and there somewhere.

I have a cable connection, while Ashen has ADSL. We  basicly share the same servers for connections "with the world". But there are slight differences. He gets a timeout somwhere in niderlands.  Oh, and we both  turn off the firewall  for mp. Everyting used to be ok, he used to have ping about 45.  Anyway here's a log from tracert :


 1   152 ms   157 ms    20 ms  war-ru1.tpnet.pl [213.25.2.29]
 2    15 ms    16 ms    21 ms  z.war-ru1.do.war-r1.tpnet.pl [213.25.5.9]
 3    26 ms    15 ms    15 ms  war-b2-pos5-0.telia.net [213.248.79.233]
 4    34 ms    30 ms    34 ms  hbg-bb1-pos1-2-0.telia.net [213.248.64.201]
 5    40 ms    40 ms    55 ms  ffm-bb1-pos0-2-0.telia.net [213.248.64.213]
 6   104 ms    39 ms    38 ms  ffm-b1-pos3-1.telia.net [213.248.68.10]
 7    38 ms    39 ms    40 ms  telia.d-f-4-so023.de.lambdanet.net [193.45.9.170]
 8    44 ms    42 ms    42 ms  D-2-pos000.de.lambdanet.net [217.71.105.29]
 9    46 ms    46 ms    47 ms  TE2-1-pos130.nl.lambdanet.net [217.71.96.89]
10    77 ms    58 ms    64 ms  lambdanet.network.2fast.nl [217.71.101.122]
11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
15     *        *        *     Request timed out.

ok, we are having some server issues there.... they should be fine for now... however.. we are making one FINAL (hopefully) server move later this week... *ugh* hopefully this will resolve all the problems... do me a favor.. do a traceroute to artemis.drwilco.net and show me what you get..

the new location for our server will be in the same rack as that one.

Here you go. Ignore the ping, tracert was perfortmed with emule in background. At least this one's workin!

Tracing route to artemis.drwilco.net [209.162.234.22]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

 1    54 ms    64 ms    26 ms  war-ru1.tpnet.pl [213.25.2.29]
 2    48 ms   186 ms    68 ms  z.war-ru1.do.war-r1.tpnet.pl [213.25.5.9]
 3   135 ms    55 ms   182 ms  war-b2-pos5-0.telia.net [213.248.79.233]
 4    95 ms   152 ms   129 ms  hbg-bb2-pos1-2-0.telia.net [213.248.64.205]
 5   126 ms   101 ms   114 ms  hbg-b1-pos0-0.telia.net [213.248.65.50]
 6   126 ms   189 ms    73 ms  dtag-01697-hbg-b1.telia.net [213.248.103.234]
 7   277 ms   285 ms   233 ms  YTO-SA1.YTO.CA.net.dtag.de [62.154.5.201]
 8   169 ms   265 ms   249 ms  62.156.138.110
 9   208 ms   182 ms   214 ms  142.46.130.2
10   237 ms   185 ms   204 ms  national-gw-fe-106.fibretech.on.ca [216.16.232.30]
11   295 ms   381 ms   393 ms  artemis.drwilco.net [209.162.234.22]

hmm well then thats the wrong address hehe

let me get you the real address where its moving..

Ok, now you lost me. You gave me the wrong address or  is it hte right one buti it was supposed to cennect through different servers?

Phew... finally, everything is working fine withe the european server... except  both wireheadstudios org and net  don't redirect me to http://www.wireheadstudios.org/index.php (http://www.wireheadstudios.org/index.php)

I have the logo but after clicking on it I get a page source. Well at least it does under Moziila, Ie works just fine

we know, and we're working on it.. :)

In the meantime..


*waves hands*
You do not see page source... instead you see a wonderful webpage...

yes.. wonderful webpage....

Seriously though... I'm in charge of the european server, so if theres problems, questions, etc, just use these buttons down at the bottom of this message to reach me :)

They all work... choose whichever you want

Everything is fine now. Everything is fianlly working... Execpt Games Keeper no longer shows up whenever  I'm on the european server. Well, honestly no one really shows up on the server. At least when I play (usually after 10 p.m.).

But anyway, a few days ago there was something interesting going on. Before connecting I had a ping 70. When I entered the game I had ping about 400-700 but the funny thing  is that there was a sort of time acceleration. Every match lasted half the time it should, when gaining a Quad it would last for like 4 seconds and most of the time I had no idea where I was because of  high ping.

BUT, I gotta admit that playing that way was great. No really, it was.

Maybe it's a good idea for a mod? ;)  

Ok i too got some serious connection troubles with Pluto, warden and i did some test and it seems like my ISP Telia has for some strange reason "banned" Pluto on one of their dialup servers , i have a hard time just to access the forums and irc just tought you wanted to know Dicion.

quite wierd...

i've noticed that recently, europe in general's routing has been going to shit...

hopefully its a short-lived trend...