johnbb

Thank you Yeti for finding more information about the network adapter settings.. I have a higher end machine and lots of RAM so the change I did will likely not impact the performance of my machine at all. However, it quite possibly won't help the disconnects either. I just thought of it as one possibility for reducing the frequency of disconnects. Thanks again for following up. Stone (Johnbb)

First of all, I am no network expert. All of what I am saying here is what my brain came up with after listening and reading a bit. When I want to run multiple toons doing some trade runs or something, I seem to get more disconnects entering stations or gating. It seems like most disconnects may be associated with loss of UDP protocol packets somewhere in the chain between the client and the server (potentially somewhere within the Internet as well). I thought about it a little and wondered whether there is anything on my end (client) that I can do to reduce the occurrences. On my PC, Windows has a single buffer receiving the UDP packets and I thought that multiple instances of the client would be trying to receive multiple packets pretty much all at the same time. If this buffer were small, the buffer may overflow from time to time and therefore generate some packet loss on my PC. So I decided to see what I could do (raise the size of the buffer). I went into Control Panel - Devices - Network Adapter - Properties - Advanced - Receive Buffers and then changed the size from 1024 to 2048. So far, I have not had any disconnects. I expect the value of the Receive Buffers on many PCs will be different depending on the resources available. Remember that this is totally just what my brain came up with based on all the information that I have heard. It may or may not resolve some of your issues.

Thank you Yeti

I vaguely remember being able to get a few bonus skill point within the game when it was live but I cannot remember how (mission?). My question for the EMU people is "Are there Missions that give some Bonus Skill Point in the emulator"?

I don't know if someone setting up a private server is at all an option these days or not. Myself and my friend used to play EnB when it was out and we enjoyed ourselves a lot. I also connected to Net7 and played a bit as well. I am retired now (I was an IT PM - on mainly mainframe applications). I was hoping to be able to set up an ENB server at home to accommodate 3 to 6 users so that I can play with a few friends when they are over at my place. I am looking at nostalgia and having some fun for a bit. I understand that it may take a while to actually set it up. I am not an expert but I can likely muddle through it eventually. I am not necessarily interested in the latest and greatest - just to sit down and play the game like we used to. If there is any chance to be able to set up a private server on one of my computers, I would appreciate it. I would also donate to the project if donations are still being accepted.