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Finally fixed my daughter's destiny zoo problem (caterpillars, baboons, etc) and comcast with technicolor modems.
Solution was to set up a separate router using tomato or dd-wrt and a vpn account with IPVanish.
I am visiting my daughter right now here in San Jose, CA. I saw first hand how often she would get kicked out of destiny. She was getting booted out every time she tried to join a public event, or even randomly in the middle of a strike. This was happening every 15 minutes.
What I did was to get an Asus RT-66U router, install tomato shibby on it, put it right in front of the xbox 360, and set up a vpn link (openvpn) to IPVanish's servers in Seattle. We've been playing all day today and destiny has been rock solid.
Also, I had brought down another xbox 360, I also set that one up for myself to play on. For this one, I used an Asus RT-N16 router flashed with DD-WRT, also set up to vpn into IPVanish's servers (this time I tried their San Jose servers).
Both of us were able to play all day on destiny without being kicked off even once!
Total cost : around $100 - $150 per router,
$6 per month for the ipvanish account.
Being able to play Destiny uninterrupted: priceless sigh of relief!
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That's awesome that you were able to fix your connection issues. I seem to keep getting errors especially in the weekends for some reason. Per the bungie description the reason I get is that I am trying to connect through a mobile/cellular service. I am on broadband cable not mobile/cellular so I don't see how I keep getting those errors, bee and baboon I think were ones I got. I am running both my PS3's in wifi since the router, a Netgear wndr3700vr1, is in another room but now I'm thinking of running cables to them to see if this fixes my issues. Having the cable guy come check our my network since it's not only destiny that I am having issues with. Wifi drops sporadically and the cable wigs out whenever someone in the room gets a cell phone message. Quite annoying since this had recently started happening about a month ago. Maybe my router is on its last legs or the modem is?