Quote Originally Posted by mDaWg View Post
Quick reboots usually never fully reset your connection... Especially since almost everything out there has a time-out period in which things will just auto-reconnect with no issues. Doubt you'll get a new IP from your ISP that fast either. Leases usually last an average of 8 hours from an ISP, so you'd have to be offline for a maximum of 8hours otherwise be down during the window when the lease expires and the DHCP server hands that IP to someone else. Only way you're gonna get a new IP faster is if you do a release/renew on the router itself, which in most cases ISPs deny access to the release and the router ends up releasing it only from itself, not the DHCP server... which in turn results in the same IP address.

Once again, pretty sure anyone who may have seen this as a fix is just caught up in a coincidence. It would not make any sense from a technical standpoint for this to work with this type of error.

Anyway I'm done caring. I'm online so I'm going back to playing.
LOL, after posting what I did I thought about it and remembered that SE did talk about doing something to clear 3102 characters on a regular basis, possibly a lesson learned from Beta 4...

Agreed about getting a new IP address, it's unlikely that the lease time on an IP address from your ISP is so short that simply resetting get's you a new one, and the address behind your firewall is irrelevant. I removed my long post from earlier, because on reflection I agree that it is almost certainly coincidence and people are attributing the 'fix' to something that they did, when in fact SE reset their character.