nope sorry is exactly right, heres the history of my correspondence with evenbalance on this issue

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My first trouble ticket

Cannot respawn when I have PB enabled on MY server, I'm on dialup, even when I manually update the game by downloading the 3 files from the evenbalance site, I can spawn for the initial spawn but when I die I cannot respawn. The game doesnt seem to recognize that I have selected a spawn. Before the patch I could manually update and play for a bit then I would get kicked for not returning packets or something, now I cannot play past the first death period. Is there a fix for this?

Thier first response

The Key Packet kicks and spawn problems are an issue where the client is not able to send information to the server. BattleField is a high bandwidth game, and mods such as DC use even more. Old phone lines, the call distance all affect an already slow connection. PunkBuster need to communicate with the server, and as long as the game cannot do that, the kicks will happen.

My response back

So your saying thats the way it is and it cannot be fixed? Thats funny, the 3rd or 4th PB update caused this problem. It wasnt there before that, I cannot get broadband where I live and have been gaming on this line since doom 2 doing modem to modem connects. Ive played the whole Descent series, 1, 2 and 3 multiplayer on this line. Played Tribes 1 and 2 on this line, have had clans in all of those games and played competitively in ladders and leagues on this line. Not to mention playing BF42 since there was nothing but Wake Island on ladders and in leagues with my clan on this line and never had a problem like this until that PB update. This is a PB issue and you are causing me to close my rented game server to the public and probably move on to a non-pb game because you wont fix this. I'm not the only one, look at the punksbusted forums, people with ISDN are having the same problem. If I turn PB off on my server the game runs fine with no problems but when I turn PB on I cant respawn. Are you telling me this cannot possibly be fixed? Just tell me so I can move on if thats the case.

Their response

I'm sorry that you are not able to play. The reason why the old update "started" to do this is that we required that PB actually COMMUNICATE with the server. Before that, we just let PB sit there, and if there was no communication, there was not a kick. So cheaters realized this, and then just removed PB entirely..and could play. We had no choice but to require that PB send and recieve info. This stopped the cheaters, but opened up the massive network code issues in BF games. The low bandwidth network code was ignoring PB requests to send a packet, and the kicks started happening. To "fix" this would require us to allow cheaters free run in the games. PB is optional, and we know that some people are not able to use it anymore. But there is nothing I can do to help.

My Response back

So your saying you added to the low bandwidth network code so it wont work properly now? You know you havent stopped the cheaters right? Just alot of people that WERE customers of EA, thats who you stopped. OK fine then, I'll move on to a game that is free of the PB trouble, one less BF42 game server for the public to game on, one less team competeting in a PB "supported" game. Thx for absolutely nothing

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There it is, like it or not, if you want to play BF42 on dialup...NO PB SERVERS FOR YOU

Cenega od półtora roku nie jest dystrybutorem serii Battlefield. Jusz Secret Weapons było wydane w Polsce bezpośrednio przez EA.

Ze taj powiem gowno prawda.
Mam ten sam problem co ten koles. Nie moge sie zespawnowac po smierci. Dziala to na niektorych serwerach (na 3C dzieje sie tak zawsze i nie moge sobie pograc albo robie co chwila restart)
Mam neostrade stara wersje bez limitu z predkoscia 768 Kb/s. Wiec niech nie pieprza mi tu o modemach.
To jest imo dosc powazny blad i mam nadzieje ze mi za pare dni przejdzie jak przeinstaluje bfa.

Gra wyszla bez PB, wiec nie bylo problemu z modemami.

ja akurat mam łącze 64 kbps z kablówki jak narazie nie ma problemów, zdarza sie wysoki ping że giera skacze lub kick za wysoki ping jednak zdarza sie to żadko

Co bylo a nie jest nie pisze sie w rejestr.
Problem jest "teraz" i od "teraz" moim zdaniem powini umiescic informacje na pudelkach.

Ze taj powiem gowno prawda.
Mam ten sam problem co ten koles. Nie moge sie zespawnowac po smierci. Dziala to na niektorych serwerach (na 3C dzieje sie tak zawsze i nie moge sobie pograc albo robie co chwila restart)
Mam neostrade stara wersje bez limitu z predkoscia 768 Kb/s. Wiec niech nie pieprza mi tu o modemach.
To jest imo dosc powazny blad i mam nadzieje ze mi za pare dni przejdzie jak przeinstaluje bfa.

Ps. Die_Hard a jak u ciebie z update??? pomoglo ??