Demosthenes

OP here, I ran a ping logger through CMD prompt and it looks like I'm getting timeout or >1k once every 20-60 pings. I'm on Comcast cable with a (I know it's shitty) Linksys wireless router. Once I get back to the computer in question (I live in a different city during the weekends) I'll try a hardline and let yall know the results. As I recall now I've been having random connection issues for quite a while, don't know why I didn't add 2 and 2. As aside note, this game apparently handles packet drops incredibly well when there's no server handoff like you were saying. I rarely have a problem other than the ones stated above.

Hello, I am currently running Windows XP SP3. Probably around 10% of the time I try to gate to a different sector, I get a loading screen like this: http://img708.imageshack.us/i/bug1n.png/ It's just like the beginning loading screen, only the "Loading..." bar in the bottom right is there. Note there are no red circles or From / To transferring bars. If I alt-tab to the command prompt, it shows this: http://img97.imageshack.us/i/bug2r.png/ before I terminate it. It varies between this (I force close it eventually using task manager) and crashing to desktop with this in the command window: http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1648/bug3c.png It has the normal loading screen with the To / From message bars and the red circle(s) when this happens, so I'm not sure if this problem is related or not. Also, different problem but possibly related, I've been effectively stuck right between clicking an NPC (vendor or otherwise) and the conversation window popping up, with no crashes ever from that problem, just me stuck. Exiting to Character Selection solves this problem. Here's a screenshot: http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4439/bug4u.png With both of these problems, there will be times where it's happening all the time to the point that I'm unable to do anything, and hours gone by with no problems whatsoever. Thanks in advance for your help, it's awesome what yall are doing here