[thepossum]

But here I am

Connecting to a different service perhaps

To be more specific it is the Play Brdge Now button

[thepossum]

I have done some further testing using developer tools in Edge, and tested by my Wifi and Mobile hotspot. Rebooted Windows, installed all updates. Checked in Edge and Chrome etc
Chat GPT tells me the problem is not anything to do with my internet or routing and that the issue is something to do with this

f it fails in exactly the same way via your phone hotspot, then this is not your router, DNS, VPN, antivirus, or Edge configuration.

What that means (plain English)

Your internet is fine

Your device is fine

Your browser is fine

Bridge Base Online’s real-time server endpoint is not accepting your connection

The key line is still this:

WebSocket connection to wss://v3proxysl13.bridgebase.com/ failed

That host (v3proxysl13) is a specific regional WebSocket proxy used by Bridge Base Online.
Your login request succeeds (“loginRequest OK”), but the live game socket never establishes, so the app reports “User is not connected”.

Sadly it has now been at least two hours since my Play Bridge Now button was noticed not to function. My BBO app doesn't work either

Just checked a USA VPN. Nope

Also very sad nobody else on the forums to talk to or read my messages

[jillybean]

thepossum, on 2025-December-22, 19:19, said:

Also very sad nobody else on the forums to talk to or read my messages

Sorry, too busy trying to signon to BBO

[a_user]

Was lost but now is back online...

[diana_eva]

There was a major outage, and the Forums were also down through it, which was why we could not post updates here. Systems are operational now. We'll post an announcement once we have more details from the techs.

[thepossum]

Thanks. Have had occasional routing problems with Windows recently so did some tests

[Huibertus]

BBO is just unstable, it happens often you can't log on because supposedly there is no internet, while you of course have no issue anywhere else on the internet from the same device.
You also get disconnected from tournaments you are playing, very frequently. If you are very lucky you can reconnect on time, but usually it takes too long, a disaster for maintaining TCR at a decent level.

I guess it is what it is. It does cause me not to be prepared to pay for anything here.