Same problem here now, although I've played M&B: Warband fine for years including MM and NW, and all of the sudden, out of the blue, i have this issue... any ideas yet?
I tried:
- Port forwarding for Warband
- Internet Radio on while playing the game
- checking for double rgl_config.txt
- Secure connection is 0
- max connections doesn't work
- Verifying game cache through steam
- Deleting and reinstalling Warband
- Reinstalling Steam
Sidenote; I noticed the same as Umbra on the taleworlds forum
His post
WOW! I honestly thought I was the only one with this problem. I started getting this problem several months ago. I have been thinking it was my cable internet all this time.
A couple things:
1. The reason I thought it was my connection is because my cable modem is sitting right there on my desk. When I get disconnected from a Warband server, I see a couple of the lights ("online" and "link" lights) on the modem go out for maybe 4 or 5 seconds then come back on and my internet connection returns. The power light and downstream lights stay on. I don't know how the game could cause this...maybe there's something inherent in the game connection that causes a lot of line "noise" and just causes the modem to crash? Perhaps a "Steam" thing? I have no clue.
2. Until recently, I haven't been playing any other online games. When I started playing another game roughly 2 weeks ago, I noticed I wasn't disconnecting. Having that happen plus reading all these comments leads me to believe there is something goofy with Warband.
My internet dies for 3 seconds or so whenever this occurs, and with a speedcheck done it does not seem to be my internet, and the router has no mentioned problems and is designed for my provider (KPN) by Logitech to ensure optimal prestations for gaming.. However I agree this looks like a router problem, but I've had this router for half a year and in that time it worked better then the old one.. I am going to try to fool around with the settings for that, this sounds starts to sounds like the NAT problem the Playstation 3 experiences.
Speedtest Results
Download speed 91.1 Mbit/s
Upload speed 73.1 Mbit/s
Ping 17ms
(while 3 other computers are being used)