Official RIVA thread

[Dean Roddey]

But if the network connection is down for an hour, it's irrelevant what we do, since you couldn't be doing anything while the network connection is lost. I think that the main issue is that the network connectively blinks out for four or five seconds and that causes the socket connection to be dropped between the client and server. This happens at a level below what we can control.

But, if we allowed for some way for the client, after loss of connection, to try to reconnect to the same session on the server, which it would keep open for, say, 15 seconds worst case before giving up, that would allow the client to reconnect to that same sessiona again after an intermittent wireless network failure. The server would just completely redraw the screen to make the client get back into sync again where it was before.

That's something that's probably reasonably doable and I think it would address most problems. So you might get periodic 'please wait' type of dialog boxes as its trying to get reconnected again when the connection is lost. But it would come back to where it was, as long as it can reconnect in some fairly short time.