Topic: Who Here Knows How To Configure A Router For Online Gaming Through A Cable Modem??? (Read 4491 times)

Cleaven · « **Reply #20 on:** August 02, 2003, 05:56:17 pm »

Yes

ActiveX · « **Reply #21 on:** August 02, 2003, 05:59:08 pm »

What about routers that do not have a both setting for UDP/TCP?

dderidex · « **Reply #22 on:** August 02, 2003, 06:30:20 pm »

Okay, what then?

I've search on these forums, and configured every port to pass-through even suggested (way more than needed, I'm sure). I've even tried putting my PC in the DMZ of my router - still no good. XP firewall disabled, zone alarm turned off (or with everything in 'trusted' zones). Nothing seems to matter - OP always detects the firewall and says I cannot connect.

When I try to use Gamespy directly, it tells me that my internet IP address and local IP address are different. Well, that's true. It reports that this means I will not be able to host a server and many games with have problems. Since OP uses Gamespy arcade, I assume that's what its problem is, too.

There has got to be some way around this, but I can't find it searching here.

(BTW, FWIW, I have no problem using DirectPlay games - America's Army, Tribes 2, UT2K3, etc - all those connect to internet servers just fine. I can even host with the proper ports open! But, OP just stubbornly refuses to work.)

Cleaven · « **Reply #23 on:** August 02, 2003, 06:30:38 pm »

The Linksys seems to be the best router for setting up SFC (1,2,OP & TNG). There are other routers can do it as well, and even more routers that don't support things like port range forwarding. If there is no choice for UDP or TCP then it's probably both, but I don't know.

Cleaven · « **Reply #24 on:** August 02, 2003, 06:35:36 pm »

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Okay, what then?

I've search on these forums, and configured every port to pass-through even suggested (way more than needed, I'm sure). I've even tried putting my PC in the DMZ of my router - still no good. XP firewall disabled, zone alarm turned off (or with everything in 'trusted' zones). Nothing seems to matter - OP always detects the firewall and says I cannot connect.

When I try to use Gamespy directly, it tells me that my internet IP address and local IP address are different. Well, that's true. It reports that this means I will not be able to host a server and many games with have problems. Since OP uses Gamespy arcade, I assume that's what its problem is, too.

There has got to be some way around this, but I can't find it searching here.

(BTW, FWIW, I have no problem using DirectPlay games - America's Army, Tribes 2, UT2K3, etc - all those connect to internet servers just fine. I can even host with the proper ports open! But, OP just stubbornly refuses to work.)

The settings I describe above (with the addition of disablling UPnP) allow me to play all 4 SFC's online and use GSA with full function (I have to turn of the GSA firewall warning).

rmahannah · « **Reply #25 on:** August 02, 2003, 10:10:08 pm »

My router does not allow me to enter that many port forwards... I just have to disconnect from the router and hook up directly to the cable modem in order to play GSA or TCP/IP...

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