Player name already in use??

[Kilaya76]

I have no idea what this is: often my game just freezes as if lagging, and after some moments I eventually get disconnected. But when I try to log back, I get the message "your player name is already in use" and I have to wait a bit before I can log back in. It seems that during this time my character is still in the game, standing idly.
 
Anyone got an idea about how I could fix that? Imagine if this happens when you are right in the middle of a fight. :(

[Cruzel]

If you disconnect, your client stops sending packets to the server, once that happens you have aprox. 58 seconds before the server will log your PC out. (I've timed it roughly)  This is more of a result of gamespy sucking, tbh. if you change server lists or login/out more than once within a set period of time. couple minutes? The master server can have issues authenticating you, cutting you off from most/all the servers.  

in short; Gamespy sucks, but your PC is not standing idly IG ignoring people for the time it takes for you to get back IG. Sometimes you will be clear within a minute, sometimes it takes hours. Again, Gamespy sucks.

[Kilaya76]

But that doesn't seem to happen because I log in/out more than once, sometimes it can happen right after I log in without having played the last hours. Furthermore, there are days when this never happens, and days when it happens like 5 + times a hour.
 
Is there nothing to be done about it? :(
 
Well, thanks anyway.