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Ok here is the ?, Iam trying to connect to a friends ip so we can play a game (Dawn of war) ok He is on a different WAN and if it matters i can ping his gateway but that just isnt getting us far enouth. His Computers ip does'nt work cause it is the normal LAN ip that his router gives him. the ? is i guess is there a way that we can connect???
Tell him to look up port forwarding for his router.
Cheers
wireless?
games will not work multiplayer on the wireless. they dont understand wireless network somehow.
have tried it. you can transfer files and stuff but not able to play games. maybe its just the games i have tried, as somehow they always freese up whenever i have tried to connect through the wireless...
Games can't be played on wireless... I better disconnect my wireless then and stop playing DoW, Ravenshield, Eve online, City of Heros, and many others that I play. You must have meant games cannot be played accross an AD-HOC network connection, Which I'm not sure if it would work or not. I do play multiplayer games within my lan across wireless without any issues though. Chances are since it is on a "diffrent" wan that they are not on the same network and it IS a port forwarding issue.
Thanks for the help everyone
This could be perhaps that a 'wireless' network uses TCP/IP Protocol to communicate with each device. Most games AFAIK typically use the IPX Protocol. This needs to be installed on each adapter on each workstation and depending on your gateway/firewall to also be configured.Quote:
games will not work multiplayer on the wireless. they dont understand wireless network somehow
Apart from that, w/less does not work any differently from a wired network (Providing they both use the same protoco:D )
[edit] you might also want to look at point-to-point (PPTP) VPN from your router, across the wuh wuh wuh, and to your friends router. [/edit]
Theres a neat little program out there called Hamachi.
It uses the internet to establish a virtual LAN between clients. This might help solve your problem.
The last game that needed IPX/SPX was Doom IIRC. Doom 1 that is..Quote:
Originally Posted by CybertecOne
Ok, I'm glad I wasn't the only one who caught that. I'm sitting here scratching my head... wa-wa-wa-what?!Quote:
Originally Posted by SirDice
Yeah, I had to look at the date of the thread to make sure this wasn't some oldy that floated back up..
Starcraft used IPX. DoW should work fine over the internet, assuming the NAT is configured correctly. I've done it myself. 2 human v 2 Hard CPU = "challenge"
Starcraft came about sometime around 1998.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aardpsymon
Yeah, as said above, IPX hasn't been used in quite a while, but it is still an available option on most games. As for the no games on wireless, LAN games seem to not like it very much. They recognize the connection, and will start the game, but somewhere in the middle of the game you *will* get kicked. Online games work fine, though (this has been the case on every wireless network I've been on, which there have been more than I can count).
As for the OP's problem, setup port forwarding. Should work fine after that.
In the middle of the game when you get kicked, is it some kind of interference that drops the connection, or even in a completely stable w/less network would you still be d/c. I just dont think the game itself should be aware of what type of network it is running across, and thus *decide* to terminate a player during a game, there has to be more to it.
*scratches noggin*
CTO
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Originally Posted by delstar
There are plenty of options available to many programs, the point is, if you have the options set up incorrectly, the correct solution is not... changing the network to accommodate for them. You can justify all you want why you prefer not to use wireless for lan games, thats just your prefernce though... again, sorry, but have you been to a lan party recently?
In my house I have 3 wireless access points. DSL/4port/wireless to a netgear 4 port switch which has 2 linksys wrt54g connecting two it (ones a wrt54gl with dd-wrt). The wrt's are both on their own subnet. Ones DMZ'ed, the others a house access point. I can set up a game server connecting to any, of the devices and hit it from any of the other ones, wired or wifi.
You can not convince me without a specific example of a modern game, that wireless connections and lan games do not mix just because of the wireless. If you can name one that won't run over wifi that does not state the fact it can not be run over wireless in the system requirements for the network. I'll go out and buy it and if I can not get the game to run over a wireless network.... I'll eat my words.
Not sure who would agree with me here, but if a game wont connect across the wireless network, connecting everything together with cables without making any changes is not going to help.Quote:
If you can name one that won't run over wifi that does not state the fact it can not be run over wireless in the system requirements for the network. I'll go out and buy it and if I can not get the game to run over a wireless network.... I'll eat my words.
Yes, the above does have exceptions but on the basic level where the wireless network is simply an extension of the wired network.
CTO
Haha Im sorry but saying games dont work on wireles is funny. Bottom line on this one is setup port forwarding or a vpn.
http://portforward.com/ Check it out. Should be port 6112 for that game.
Just wondering oofki, how much caffeine have you had today, you have commented (at least once) to every thread on the main page.Quote:
Originally Posted by oofki
Cheers:
In all honesty 120mg. Thats all :-)