Timeline for Which chess server is most stable in mainland China?
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| Dec 12, 2019 at 9:03 | comment | added | PhishMaster | You are welcome. ICC may not be your favorite, but it might be useful here or there. Overall, it seems to be dying anyway. I never really used it, but the FICS might still have more users since it is free, and thus, get you paired faster. | |
| Dec 12, 2019 at 9:01 | comment | added | jf328 | Thanks for the detailed explanation! I don't like ICC only because it doesn't have my favourite 5+5 time control, while custom time control takes forever to pair. | |
| Dec 12, 2019 at 8:57 | vote | accept | jf328 | ||
| Dec 12, 2019 at 8:38 | comment | added | PhishMaster | Oops, the second reason was that the traffic will flow along a different route since you are going somewhere different. | |
| Dec 12, 2019 at 8:24 | comment | added | PhishMaster | servers too. That said, again, ICC might be a good option if you need an alternative server for two reasons: The "lightweight" protocol (meaning it is not heavy on resource usage), and that it is a different protocol than newer servers use. Then, after a while, you can try chess.com again later. | |
| Dec 12, 2019 at 8:22 | comment | added | PhishMaster | the traffic. I know from personal experience, that the major providers will not talk to end-users, and only to major ISPs, and that you, generally, just have to wait it out. There are NOCs (network operating centers), and when there is a problem, it usually shows up on one of many big screens in red, so they know about the problem, and usually get right on it. Typically, within a few hours, the problems have been resolved. In the meantime, you can try to get to another server, but if the router problem is close to the beginning of the route, you may have problems getting to other | |
| Dec 12, 2019 at 8:19 | comment | added | PhishMaster | Connections use different "protocols". Think of it as different lanes on a highway. One lane may be blocked, but the others open. I have owned a computer networking company for 24 years now, and I had one client once, who could do everything, but not connect to the VPN since that "lane" had a problem. The other possibility is that somewhere beyond your initial Internet connection, there is a bad "hop". When you go from your location to any server, you go through up to 30 routers, and each jump is called a hop. Sometimes, there can be a problem with a router, and it tries to reroute | |
| Dec 12, 2019 at 8:06 | comment | added | jf328 | The issue I don't understand is this. The moment I lost connection in chess.com, I opened my browser and see if I could connect to www.amazon.com. And I could, a bit slow, but it loaded. So maybe my connection dropped for a sec, but chess.com couldn't reconnect me anymore | |
| Dec 12, 2019 at 7:54 | history | answered | PhishMaster | CC BY-SA 4.0 |