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[quote="PROWLER"]Hi, So, I have laptop which is sat next to my main computer at home. I use it for transferring items on my characters and sometimes crafting (use the mouse click-lock so it just gets on with it).. It is connected to my house wi-fi and works perfectly well. I spend a fair bit of time away and take my laptop with me. I don't usually have any time for Soma on these occasions ... but, I have been trying on the last two times away ... Each time, the laptop connects to the guest wi-fi (hotel etc.) and usual stuff works fine (Skynews blah blah blah). Sometimes the webpages are a bit laggy because the hotel networks are often a bit crap. But, they work. However, I am suffering a problem with Soma all the time. I can log in but then it quickly becomes seriously laggy and then just locks up. This happens within a couple of minutes if I try to craft and almost immediately if I do anything else. Once it does this, it freezes permanently and doesn't recover. Task manager shows it is active with figures churning around. I have turned off the clicklock (always leave the bugger on by mistake) and I have deactivated Windows firewall but it makes no difference. Since Soma plays fine on my wi-fi at home, I am quite sure I need to do something to make it work on a 3rd party network ... Any ideas? Please don't be too technical, I have an almost zero understanding. Prowler [/quote]

[quote="PROWLER"]A little bit more info; In the morning, on the same wi-fi, Soma works fine. I had a full strength signal the whole time both when it works and when it does not. Could be other people streaming Netfix (or something) that causes Soma to fail because they have stolen all the internet?[/quote]

[quote="FOXTRCK"]If you're frequently staying away, do you stay at a certain chain of hotels? If so, I'd speak to them and explain your problem as a "regular customer", imagine you'll get help if you are a regular. You'll likely need to tell them the port / ip address you use to connect to soma - to pass onto their IT team but I don't know what that is.[/quote]

[quote="PROWLER"]Thanks Fox. Does that mean it [b]IS[/b] other folk on the same wi-fi robbing the internet (I don't know the right phrase but you know what I mean) ? [/quote]

[quote="FOXTRCK"]I can't remember the right phrase or wording myself for what I mean but for example - often home routers have a setting that will "prioritise" streaming or gaming 'traffic' for you. Businesses that offer guest wifi, like hotels, mostly have some professional setup to do the same thing and it's enabled. Mainly with the aim to ensure no one gets a bad experience for 'general use'. So rather than it being that "other people" are stealing it, as you say, its simply the hotel is giving you a smaller slice of the pie and prioritise people that that are browsing websites (HTTPS / 443) over people watching podcasts and gaming. I imagine if you try one of those older, "Local" type of B&Bs that provide wifi, its probably unfiltered and you might get a more reliable connection to everything including Soma. Well that's what I would try next in your shoes, short of trying to talk to someone in a larger chain depending how comfortable you are. [/quote]

[quote="PHARMA"]over wifi u can get slight packet delays. with soma theres a counter in the packets and if it goes to far outside the range the server stops replying to incoming packets as they dont match the count then u dc while being hit by mobs etc. bad if u get caught in pvp in that situation[/quote]

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