Phoenix Online.

[Tim Procter]

Thought this was worthy of a thread as last night its the first time in three weeks I have managed to join a session, Bloody crap server.

Managed to spot Machasm (Adrian) and Toolman (Tim) doing some nice 3D flying before it kicked me off after 5 minutes.

Tried to join again with no success.

Oh how I miss flying with others online on the sim, Roll on the day its fixed.

[mattie-lodge]

The question has to be asked, when this is going to be sorted out?

I tried an online session with Tim the other night for about 30 mins and it wouldn't let us connect. I've also tried with Jamiem as well, struggled to connect and eventually it worked.

Does anybody know what the problem is?

[jimheli]

i just don't bother any more , don't even bother to do updates now , as every time i look here theirs another one & its the same as before. i just use it as a practice sim now , i do have a copy of real flight that always works online maybe not the top of the heap but works . cheers jim

[heliTV]

Thought this was worthy of a thread as last night its the first time in three weeks I have managed to join a session, Bloody crap server.

Managed to spot Machasm (Adrian) and Toolman (Tim) doing some nice 3D flying before it kicked me off after 5 minutes.

Tried to join again with no success.

Oh how I miss flying with others online on the sim, Roll on the day its fixed.

I managed to get into that one for a while until I got booted out too...

Tried a local session with my lad yesterday and it worked fine... maybe it just uses the server to control session and most of the traffic was routed locally...

Have to wait until Christmas day now as Phoenix is one of his Xmas presents!!

Let's hope Phoenix sort it...

[arby]

The question has to be asked, when this is going to be sorted out?


Does anybody know what the problem is?

I had the following reply to an email I sent to support re online issues, back end of Nov

We are currently developing this aspect of Phoenix greatly, and we hope to
improve connection-related issues vastly in the very near future, as well as
adding many new online features.


So at least they are working on it.

rgds

Bob

[Tim Procter]

I got a similar reply this week.

Hi Tim

We are sorry that you are having problems connecting to online sessions.

Connection problems as you suggest in your email are nearly always router related.

On your router, have your forwarded UDP ports 9000-9005 to your computer’s internal IP address?

Also, we are currently spending a great deal of effort on reworking and improving the multiplayer/online aspects of Phoenix, and this will be included in the next update.

Best Regards

Phoenix Support

[Toolman]

I too seem to be having more connection problems of late.

For me the problems are basically when hosting, my Phoenix session will invariably crash. Its just a matter of how long I get before it crashes. Sometimes it can be as little as 10 mins, though I do get close to an hour sometimes. If I leave a session running there is a good chance it will have crashed when I come back.

The other problem I notice is sometimes when someone joins with a poor connection speed, it brings the whole session to juddering hault. I don't know if it affects just the host or everyone in the session.
I wish they could come up with a system which anaylses the connection & PC speeds and set that person as the host, then if they leave transfer the hosting to the next best and so on.

Still its pretty good when it works.

Tim.

[Tim Procter]

Still its pretty good when it works.

Tim.

Its really good when it works Tim, I take it that was you flying on the session I connected to.

[Toolman]

Yup that was me,
Hosting a new session now rcheliaddicts3

Gonna log session crashes!
1. After 5mins! doing well!
2. After 15 mins.
3. Wow its done an hour now & no more crashes, cool!
4. Another half hour & session went odd & tranny batteries flat. Not sure it actually crashed though.

Tim.