Battle.net, realm down?

duragezic

Lifer
Oct 11, 1999
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This is kinda software question too but whatever. Pretty much everyday that I play Diablo 2 and am joining games, I'll get a failed to join game message, then kicked back out to the login screen, then if I proceed to login, I get a Realm Down message. This happens at least once a day when I play I think, but the realm is always back up within 2-3 minutes. But I only get it when joining a game, and I don't know if the realm really goes down because if I'm playing or something I never get disconnected and get the realm down message.

I'm pretty sure other people get this too...

But my question is, how does the realm just go down? I don't really understand how it just goes down every once in a while for a minute or two then is fine. Same with the schools servers. Seems like the dumbass guy is always like "SERVERS DOWN!". My computer just doesn't happen to go down every once in a while...