I too am one of those who disconnect every 60 minutes like clockwork. Without fail, you can time it exactly.
however, after much research I stumbled across a website that helped! Now, I wouldn't be posting this if I hadn't tried it myself. I have done, and at 10AM I was able to connect, and stay connected and it's now nearly 4pm. No disconnection! w00t!
However, this doesn't work around for the "other" disconnections like the DDoS attacks and server downtimes etc. It's for those of us running Windows 7. It's a very quick burst of a disconnection for like a second. but it's enough to interrupt the connection to RO.
This is what I found..
Method 2: Reset Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
The reset command is available in the IP context of the NetShell utility. Follow these steps to use the reset command to reset TCP/IP manually:
1. To open a command prompt, click Start and then click Run. Copy and paste (or type) the following command in the Open box and then press ENTER: cmd
2. At the command prompt, copy and paste (or type) the following command and then press ENTER:
netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt
Note If you do not want to specify a directory path for the log file, use the following command:
netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt
3. Reboot the computer.
So if that looks a little complicated, heres what to do..
Click Start, and the box at the bottom with the magnifying glass, type CMD and enter.
a black text window will pop up
it will look like this
==
Microsoft Windows [version 6.1.7601]
Copyright © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved
C:\users\(Computer name)>
==
Where it says c:\users etc type netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt
It will look like this C:\users\(Computer name)>netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt
then press enter. then type exit and hit enter.
Restart your PC and boom all done!
I know there are a few people that have been suffering the hourly disconnects and it appears it's a common problem with Windows Update. For some reason, it seems to get affected when patching iRO after maintenence. It doesn't happen every week but when it does, it's seriously annoying. this should fix the 60 min disconnects.