server unavailable

Hey Mikey,
The game is notoriously picky with connections, and if you're prone to packet-bleed (over patchy wireless, or cause your ISP's routing is funky), don't have ports 1001-1005 UDP open, or have a really restrictive antivirus or firewall you can run into all sorts of trouble.

While that is the same message as youll get when the servers go down, if you can relog instantly then it'll probably be your ISP or local connection responsible

 

I'm not sure about a 1/1000 loss causing disconnection.

Perhaps I'm best off asking @Wartai or @NCSGeek what they think the problem might be. They're the tech support gurus

 

Are you on Wifi or a cable?

What's your modem, and can you use a non-proprietary modem with your provider?

Do other people with your provider have a problem with packetloss or spotty connectivity?

 

Hmm, sounds like the access point might be the issue, have you by any chance got a longer ethernet cable to try run across the house without the AP or are you able to shift your laptop/tower closer to the modem itself? Not asking you to go and buy a 20/30m cable or tear your house apart, but just wondering if there was a way you could try rule the AP out, because if restarting the AP is giving you some improvement, I'm thinking that may be the issue. I had difficulties trying to play through a router used as an AP (wanted better wifi in my room for my phone) while connected back to the same modem/network I always use.