Hosting Issues

[uriel005]

I opened the port through the router using port forwarding exceptions, I disabled my windows firewall and my avast firewall has already made an exception for port 1802 both in and out tcp/udp. Every time I try to test the connection I get a failed result and the updater works so it appears that I can access the network. I have set my IP to a static number on IPV4 I got the ultimate edition specifically to play with a group of friends and I have run through the gambit for trying to get this to run and still cannot get people to join my game. Please help.

[damned]

uriel005 do you have a modem/router and a wifi/router? if so you might actually have them setup as two networks doing two lots of firewall/nat...
if you need help send me a PM.

[Meliath1742]

Damned probably remembers my situation. I had my personal router connected to my providers modem/router. We pulled out all the tricks and simply could not get my combo to work. Eventually I was forced to remove my personal router and start using the providers modem/router by itself (much simpler) and everything started working. No problems since. One thing I discovered is that my wife's computer needed to use the internal IP address and everyone else uses either the alias (words) or the retrieved external IP address.

[Nylanfs]

Yes, anything behind your modem uses the internal ip address.

[damned]

Damned probably remembers my situation. I had my personal router connected to my providers modem/router. We pulled out all the tricks and simply could not get my combo to work. Eventually I was forced to remove my personal router and start using the providers modem/router by itself (much simpler) and everything started working. No problems since. One thing I discovered is that my wife's computer needed to use the internal IP address and everyone else uses either the alias (words) or the retrieved external IP address.

Hi Meliath1742 - its perfectly possible to set it up behind the two firewalls you just have to set that NAT up properly on both. modem/router nats to wifi/router wan which nats to PC - but it is much, much easier when there is only the one firewall in place.