You're talking — and suddenly TeamSpeak is gone. Everyone else too. Reconnecting fails. It's almost never you, and almost never the server. It's a DDoS attack: someone pours junk data onto the line until there is no room left for your voices. It usually lasts a few minutes — then everything is back to normal.
Picture a road leading to our server. Normally your voices travel along it — light traffic, everything flows. In a DDoS attack someone deliberately sends tens of thousands of empty trucks down that same road. The road isn't broken, it's just full. And because your voices can't get through any more, TeamSpeak drops you.
The three letters stand for Distributed Denial of Service. Distributed means the trucks don't come from one computer but from thousands at once, often from hijacked machines whose owners have no idea. That is exactly why you cannot simply lock out the attacker like a single troublemaker.
Important for you: no data is lost in a DDoS. Your account, your permissions, your channels and the online time you have collected all stay untouched. It is a traffic jam, not damage.
Three signs that together almost always mean an attack — and not your internet.
The clearest sign. If it were your internet, only you would drop. If everyone drops at the same moment, it is the line to the server.
TeamSpeak tries, waits, gives up: "Failed to connect" or a timeout. Restarting doesn't help — the road is still full.
YouTube loads, your game runs, this page opens. Only that one server is unreachable — then you know for sure it isn't you.
An attack costs the attacker money and attention — it stops on its own. Just wait and try again in a few minutes. You don't need to reinstall anything, reset anything or write to anyone.
Five to fifteen minutes. In the vast majority of cases TeamSpeak connects normally again afterwards — without you having changed a thing.
We run several separate servers. An attack almost always hits just one of them — the others keep running. Simply take the next one.
Open the server list → Step 3In the Net Radar you can see live ping, packet loss and every detected incident of the last 14 days for every server. That is where it says what is really going on.
Open the Net Radar →Two curves give it all away: bandwidth explodes — and at the same moment all users drop at once. Check your own TeamSpeak server: that pattern is exactly how you spot a DDoS.
On ts3index.com such graphs are publicly visible for thousands of TeamSpeak servers — you will find the spikes there in abundance. And anyone who searches YouTube for "teamspeak server ddos attack" and sorts by upload date has material for a whole movie night. 🍿 We are not inventing the problem: it is daily life for every larger TeamSpeak server.
So that nobody thinks the server is broken when it happens, our early-warning bot explains to you on quiet days what an attack is and that it passes. As a private message right inside TeamSpeak, in your own language. During an attack no message would get through any more — that is why beforehand.
For years we ran one big TeamSpeak server with a fat licence — hundreds of slots, a full house. That is exactly what makes a worthwhile target. Since around 2020 there was constant fire, and from everything we found out, mostly from people who run a TeamSpeak server themselves. Competition, TeamSpeak style.
Our answer was not an even bigger licence but the opposite: several small, separate servers. A small server is uninteresting as a target, and if one does get hit, the others keep running. Fewer slots, less stress — and there is still always one free for you. The whole story is under "About us".
If your TeamSpeak server is suddenly offline, all users drop at the same time and reconnecting fails, that is as a rule a DDoS attack — not broken software and not a fault on your own line. Wait a few minutes and it will run again.
With us you don't have to set anything up or pay anything: our TeamSpeak servers are free, there are several of them, and our early-warning bot tells you in advance. How each individual server is doing right now you can see live in the Net Radar.