I get this problem a lot too. When it strikes, it makes the game virtually unplayable.

On wed. 13 april 2011 at 18:30 (or so), i was playing with my kain when suddenly the connection goes bad (NA). although I still got the chat and even normal internet. Of course my bot got killed and i immediatly appealed to the GM that was online at that moment. However he couldn't help me because the logs he was checking didn't stated that the lag was the fault of the server.
Not sure who's fault it was because I got still the chat end internet connection, but the GM was just following rules. however I still got no Kain anymore and that frustated me alot, I asked the gm where to complain and "tadaa" here i'm.
My question or remark is, why does it matter what kind of lag it is, its ruin my play/fun, because i lost a lot of day's collecting money and stuff.

I've been wondering about this. Two clients and one will get worse lag than the other.
Now either this game uses a LOT of bandwidth and there just isn't enough to run two clients (Highly unlikely) or the server does not like opening and maintaining multiple connections to the same address/host. I've notice it when running on different computers but no where near as badly.

It's been happening for a while and every time I've looked into it I get the feeling it's not my network or the route to the server that is at fault. I don't seem to suffer as much N/A spikes when only running one client on one connection

So:
2 Clients, 1 Computer = Random N/A lag on one client.

the chat and the gameworld are two seperated connections.
while the chat-connection almost never has any problems, the secondary connection can have.

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This is exactly what happens to me most of the time.  Other times one or both will get disconnected at random as well.

Sometimes it doesn't happen at all.  I know quickly if it's on my end; 90% of the time it's not.

Try the following:

1. Open the console (the `/~ key by default, you can reassign it)
2. Enter openprofiler
3. Watch the network tab, there are two blinking lights in the top left. Red one means incoming traffic, green one means outgoing one.

Please report the status of these, and the text ("ACTIVE / GQI...") next to it.

Maybe i'm a N00b but i dont get it.
And it doesnt answer my question or remark. I still want to know why a GM/DEV can just replace a bot which has been killed due lag, due bad connection from whatever side.

I found it as well (forgot to click on the text bar, yes i'm a n00b),
and like Mr. Chips what now?

ah, now then

the red light goes off, green continues to blink very slowly, lag n/a is displayed (as usual), the graph freezes, the red will sometimes flash, the active / GQI stay at 0 ... and that is the end of my evening

I can reproduce this any evening you would like to monitor after 5/6pm gametime

TTFN

I think it's the former rather than the latter. However the N/A won't effect everyone that runs two clients but it will increase their lag a little. Perhaps this small increase in lag can sometimes cause the server to think they've D/C'ed?

Now I really hope it's the latter because I can just imagine the internet is full of tiny turtles. Robot turtles.

yesterday, for the first time after release, i had a sudden disconnect. I got the information that a whole bunch (~30) others also dropped at the same time.

it may be a conicident - but my Firefox had a hang-up at the very same time. From my small perspective it looked like my Firefox somehow killed my perpetuum-connection - hopefully it was not, as so many othere have been dropped too.