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Eben aus Redmond eingetroffen! Mein letzter Strohhalm nach dem ich gegriffen hatte, nach einer wochenlangen Odysee bei Microsoft's help pages und help lines, tech chat etc.

Habe dafür aber die wohl grösste Sammlung der Welt an default und non default e-mails in meiner privaten inbox, die's bei MS so gibt für technische Fragen

Hi Tom

I got the following information from our lead communications programmer. Unfortunately, I don't think there is much to offer in way of a fix.

Bruce

Hey Bruce,

Unfortunately AOK on the Zone suffers from a lot of connectivity problems with recent network hardware such as NATs and firewalls, because we never wrote support for those devices back then (nor do I imagine that we'd go back and patch it at this point.) The best solution for problems like this is to try and use a direct internet connection (no NAT/router network hardware) if available, and to do things like opening/forwarding ports to try and work around the issues. Upgrading to the latest version of DirectX (using windowsupdate.com) may also help.

As for ping 30, I've never heard of that issue in particular but it likely just means that (as guessed) the zone can't establish a connection between the two players (IOW: ping 30 is the lowest reported ping, which is probably just a bug that means that a connection can't be established.)