Issues, Workarounds & Localization

Hello EVEians

Now firstly this method works 100% as long as you have no other issues with playing any other online games apart from EVE Online.

Basically how a socket disconnection (SD) happens is that you stop clicking on everything in EVE and perhaps alt-tab out to look at some work or Facebook or whatever and then your EVE client stop sending Data to the EVE server for a few seconds, this then means that the EVE server thinks you have DCed (disconnected) and it closes the connection.

Now the workaround or FIX or whatever you want to call it is to do the following:

PART A
Firstly contact your ISP (Internet Service Provider) then you ask them to come to your home and setup your router for DIAL-UP connections over ADSL.
Now for those of you tech-savy people, this means that you enable the setting named "Bridge PPPoE Frames Between WAN and Local Ports" on your routers WAN connection setting. HOWEVER be aware that this may be named differently in other routers and even be in a different place. The router I used is a D-Link.

PART B
Now that you have the ability to dial out over your ADSL connection, you simply do the following:
NB: I use windows 7 (as should you all) and I will be giving instructions on only Windows 7

1) Open your Network And Sharing Center
2) Click on the option to "Setup a new connection or network"
3) Now click the option to "Connect to the internet"
4) Now click on "Setup a new connection anyway"
5) Then select "No, Create a new connection"
6) Then select "Broadband (PPPoE)"
7) Now get your Username and Password from your ISP and enter it into the corresponding fields, tick the box remember password and give the connection a name then click connect.


If your settings are right and you have enabled the setting in your router mentioned in Part A then you will connect to the internet.

HOWEVER you also must do the following:
Tech-savy people must assign your computer a static IP address under your LAN connection or WiFi connection.
Also you must remove the "Default Gateway" and the "DNS Addresses" so that you will not get internet through that connection.

People who are now Tech-Savy should tell there ISP Technician to please give there computer a static IP address to the router and to not fill in the "Default Gateway" or "DNS Addresses"

This means that WHENEVER you need internet you must DIAL that connection.
That connection can be found by clicking on the "Small Computer" looking icon in the BOTTOM right of your screen.

Now that you have an active and working dial-out connection you can play EVE Online without the SD's messing up your game-play.

I would advise CCP to PIN and LOCK this thread so that there are not 100 pages of people asking stupid questions and giving incorrect advice. No offense to those people but please test your theories and ask your ISP or local IT Technician before asking the WWW.

Ill go ahead and try this, although the socket closed issue seems weird. At one point half of TQ had this incl. almost entire corp, next time its just random drops, even during doing PvE stuff, but idk whether that counts towards the packet sending stuff which I dont understand.

I would advise against this unless you really know what you are doing.

This "Fix" does nothing else than moving processing of PPPoE communication from your ADSL router/modem to your PC and eliminating one NAT step.

Which also means that if you have more than one PC on local network you will effectively cut Internet access to other computers.
And it can also mean that your PC will get assigned a public IP address which directly exposes it to the Internet and if your firewall and security settings are not up to date you are much more likely to get attacked by some random virus.

It might help if your ADSL router is faulty/slow or unable to process network traffic correctly, but it definitely is not a magic cure and if this was the case, changing the router/modem to a more powerful/recent model would be the correct action.

Locking this thread, as people are simply using it to argue about the technical knowledge of each other.