Taking an inordinate amount of time to log into FAF

[Ferball]

Yes FAF is pretty much down. Seems like it happens often on friday nights. Server overload?

[aimnkill]

Same problem here

[Ze_PilOt]

Yes.

The only way to solve it is not trying every 2 seconds to relog.

And not restarting the lobby because "you can't join" or "you can't host".

I will not work, and you will be able to join when the overhead is gone.
Doing these things only increase the time the server has to recover.

The most heaviest thing the server has to do is actually login you in, sending the whole game and player lists.

In fact, there will never be an overhead if you stop quitting/joining the lobby all the time when something seems wrong.

So stay in the lobby, wait a few seconds, and it will be all right. The server didn't crashed

[TheStrategist]

Yes but often times I get a disconnect error, even though the server is still up, i'll have to log in again.

Something like "TCP connection failed" or something

[Ze_PilOt]

Try a trace route then. (tracert faforever.com)

[Suspect]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is a traceroute? and how do you do it? I get the same TCP error. Thanks

[TheStrategist]

attached is the result. It timed out even though I can access the site and lobby no problem.

[TheStrategist]

thats because you need to type http://www.faforever.com

Nope

[-_V_-]

Nope his command is right. DNS issue ?

[Ze_PilOt]

Well at least you know why it doesn't work well. You have to sort it out with your provider.