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Hardware & Technical The Router discusion thread
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It might be easier if you know the standard port ED uses for P2P communication, then you wouldn't have to enter your IP every time it changes.
BTW, does anybody know if applications are able to tell the router to forward a certain port? I don't have router problems, I'm just curious. Is this what "UPnP port forwarding" is supposed to do? Allow an application to accept and forward UDP packets?
BTW, does anybody know if applications are able to tell the router to forward a certain port? I don't have router problems, I'm just curious. Is this what "UPnP port forwarding" is supposed to do? Allow an application to accept and forward UDP packets?
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Thanks for the reply
I did all of the above but it seems that I have to IP addresses... my own one that comes up on google search... 192.168... and one that appears in the admin page.. 10.something, something.
A helpful guy on here spend a good hour trying to fox it but to no avail...
The IP address starting with 10.etc. is private it seems and has no workaround.
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I think this is the problem...
Well, it is possible that your county may have an extensive net filter; however it appears that some can connect from the UAE (of which I _know_ has a national "firewall") so perhaps all is not lost?
Not singling it out; many countries use national "firewalls" to control information.
Googelin should give you our outside IP though. 10. and 192. is reserved for local networks yeah.
If you have a personal firewall like COMODO (I'm more concerned about applications sending info OUT of my pc than attacks from the outside) should pop up a window with info saying "Program is trying to accept connection from internet on port XXXX". If you allow that and get that port you could add a port forward. Someone with alpha and personal firewall just needs to look in their logs =)
PS: If you are really firewalled you could set up a VPN to bypass all firewall / blocked ports considerations. 5 bucks a month for better anonymity. Well you'd need to find a VPN provider that allows forwarding ports to you too
If you have a personal firewall like COMODO (I'm more concerned about applications sending info OUT of my pc than attacks from the outside) should pop up a window with info saying "Program is trying to accept connection from internet on port XXXX". If you allow that and get that port you could add a port forward. Someone with alpha and personal firewall just needs to look in their logs =)
PS: If you are really firewalled you could set up a VPN to bypass all firewall / blocked ports considerations. 5 bucks a month for better anonymity. Well you'd need to find a VPN provider that allows forwarding ports to you too
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Well you'd also need to configure a port redirection from the VPN provider to your local VPN network. So you would have to login there and request an open port. They might not offer the feature because this is needed not only for P2P games but for P2P filesharing too. Some VPN providers don't mind though. Check your VPN provider or post what VPN you're using.
But that SC HM works indicates some firewalling on your network, ports being blocked etc. I seriously don't know much about network admin and routing stuff though, only the basics of how to use a simple dsl router and personal firewall.
But that SC HM works indicates some firewalling on your network, ports being blocked etc. I seriously don't know much about network admin and routing stuff though, only the basics of how to use a simple dsl router and personal firewall.
This. I remember how big of an issue this was with Blood Bowl.
But all the current games which are multi-players online, have these problems ? I see badly a family which knows nothing about the computer and about the network, make the configurations like a technician
lots of people who've played tonnes of multiplayer games without having to tinker with their router configurations only had issues when playing Blood Bowl multiplayer. I'm not saying that's necessarily what's going on with Elite, but when one game out of many (Blood Bowl - and it might be fixed now for all I know) requires you to do this I'm thinking the game is as fault.
Perhaps that Frontier should make an agreement with all the Internet Service Provider of the whole world, so that these make the settings routers / modems to their customers at a distance. As they already make it for their regular update
Somehow I find it hard to believe nearly all game developers except those who made Blood Bowl does that.
How many of the other games use P2P for player interaction though? That's the difficulty, I think. You don't really want such capabilities to be enabled by default, hence the user needs to configure his router if he wants to allow it.
The process needs to be made as easy as possible though, and maybe there could eventually be a network test module to allow potential customers to check before buying.
IIRC Blood Bowl was P2P, so you're probably right. I didn't personally have to tinker with any settings (I don't even have access), but lots of others did. Which was problematic when they had no idea how they were supposed to fix it. I don't know if there's an easy solution to this.
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