diff --git a/Projects/Server/Network/Packets/IncomingAccountPackets.cs b/Projects/Server/Network/Packets/IncomingAccountPackets.cs
index 9229d9611..0f6f5b83d 100644
--- a/Projects/Server/Network/Packets/IncomingAccountPackets.cs
+++ b/Projects/Server/Network/Packets/IncomingAccountPackets.cs
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ namespace Server.Network
 
                 // Comment out these lines to turn off huffman compression
                 state.CompressionEnabled = true;
-                state.PacketEncoder = NetworkCompression.Compress;
+                state.PacketEncoder ??= NetworkCompression.Compress;
 
                 state.SendSupportedFeature();
                 state.SendCharacterList();