Getting booted

[alyce]

After reading the readme and FAQ, people wishing to only play on other people's server only need 3 things. Download eqhosts.txt, EQW, and your login and password for this bulitin board.

Did exactly what is says.
I am trying to play in someone's server before I try to create my own.
After trying a lot, I managed to make a char in the heliacal.net dev server, and just got to log her on once.
Every time I try to make a char, or log on the char that I made I get the "you have been disconnected" message.

I am using windows 98 as OS, have cable connection. And I don't have a firewall.

Any idea what this could be? It's strange that I managed to log on once but then never again :(

Than you

~ Alyce ~

[AardRiven]

I'm having a same problem.

[Izzen]

Try change your datarate to 10. It fixed my problem.

In your EverQuest directory, there's a DataRate.txt file. open it and change 5.0 to 10.0 save it then run Everquest.

[Mogul]

i'm having the same problem.

I tryed to look for the datarate file there isn't one in my eq directory as far as i can tell. Are u sure its called datarate.txt? cause i did a search on it just to make sure i wasn't missing it and it turned up nothing.

thanks ahead of time for any info.

[AardRiven]

I didnt have datarate.txt either, so I created one with a single line,

10.0

but it made no difference either way

[Xarslik]

This may be the result of a faulty setup on their side, or a problem with your computer's DNS (Domain Name Resolution) if they're using a hostname (eg www.myserver.com) to listen on.

Possibly they've changed some settings recently which broke your ability to connect.

Try connecting to another server to see if it's you or them.

[Mogul]

i figured out what was causing it. It was that i had a few compatibilty things on. Not sure if u guys have the same thing but make sure none of the compatibilty things are on if ur using xp.

long story why i had the on but i just got eq so i am a newbie to eq. It just dawn on me when i was heading to bed.