- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
It always checks for updates, with everybody, everytime you connect into the game lobby. Deal with it.
When the network connection is lost it simply means that you and the host lost connection. (Duh.) You can't change that, you simply "lagged" out, in a sense. It happens to everybody.
[Edited on 6/7/2006]