I don't know what could be causing this. Well, I got some screenshots, tried connecting through LAN and external IP (own dedicated ob-server), changing rates... nothing helped. http://myfile.ch/?d=C0A522FD4
Bumping this. This happens to me too, and about 6 testers I asked to test it. And it happened on the official server aswell. Who has an explanation for this. It makes testing harder. Is it a bug or are we doing something wrong, OB dedicated server + empires = is it supposed to not work?
If anybody who has server rcon would set the timeout to something higher, you could see if it's the server or just the connection that's timing out.
Well I tried with 5 different machines now (told others to host and such) but good idea, lets try this.
Set the server rcon for timeout from 65 to 140, didn't time out. Set it back to 65 reconnected, didn't time out. Weird. Problem is gone.................?
It could have been a bug in the source dedicated server which suddenly got fixed by Valve without us noticing it. Or did it just work because you changed the timeout to a different value and then back again? However, let's go test on the testing server :D!