DocFrost72 wrote: »Your game and your pc aren't speaking to each other. There's no connection, like if you got no phone service.
You're in a car and trying to drive from LA (your computer) to San Francisco (the server). You pull up your google maps and it says that there is NO available route (error 200). You think "WTF of course there's a route!" (Common sense)
What you don't know is that
1. There could be a tree fallen down blocking the ONLY exit from your neighborhood (router is down)
2. Floods have flooded one of the only two access roads that you can use to drive up to the gates and entrance of your destination and your GPS (ISP) doesn't know about the other gate / entrance on the back. (ISP / nodes are messed up)(many people have this problem if they're routed along the "flooded" node - that's why sometimes half a raid will disconnect but the other half stays fine)
3. (Most likely) your GPS is programmed only to search for the fastest way, but that fastest way is actually blocked by a fallen boulder. Because your GPS is PREprogrammed, it won't try to search for a second fastest way. (To make it search for a second fastest way, flush your DNS. Google it)
4. The destination you want to go to has burned down in a terrible hamster fire (server crashed).
All your map program knows is that you can't reach your final destination, but it's a *** program so it isn't telling you WHY you can't reach your destination. That's why magical elves invented something called a trace route.
What a tracert (trace route) does is measure the amount of time it takes between each step of the journey. Instead of saying it would take 8 hours to get to SF from LA, it will say that you'll take 10 min to get out of your neighborhood, 20min to get to Ventura (1 town north of LA) another 2 hours to get to Santa Barbara, etc... 20 minutes to get to San Francisco border, then 15 minutes to get to the building you want to visit.
This is really useful because if it comes back saying "it'll take 20 hours just to leave the neighborhood" you'll know that the problem is local. Similarly, if it says "it'll take 7 hours to reach the gate of the building you want to go to, then infinity hours to reach your destination" then it means we need to start writing obituaries for the three hamsters that power the ESO servers.
So do this: Goto your start bar. Type in CMD and hit enter.
Command prompt will load.
Type in:
tracert 198.20.198.110
Copy and paste the results in this message board. We will interpret for you.
my trace rout results
So do this: Goto your start bar. Type in CMD and hit enter.
Command prompt will load.
Type in:
tracert 198.20.198.110
Copy and paste the results in this message board. We will interpret for you.