Routers and IP games

[Night Stalker]

Originally posted by Nanobyte: I'm so confused. The only manual I got with the router is this 6-page instruction booklet on how to set it up. I don't think it includes anything about configuration and ports. What I'm using is a Linksys WUSB11 v. 2.6

The WUSB11 is not your router - it's your wireless network interface for your upstairs computer. The router is the box you connect between your cable/dsl modem and your computer downstairs. Maybe a BEFW11S4 or BEFSX41 if you are using all Linksys. Hopefully you are not using Windows connection sharing.

Anyway, you need to check the documentation for the router - there should be directions for port forwarding there.

[Nanobyte]

Originally posted by Ziroc: quote: Originally posted by Nanobyte: I'm so confused. The only manual I got with the router is this 6-page instruction booklet on how to set it up. I don't think it includes anything about configuration and ports. What I'm using is a Linksys WUSB11 v. 2.6

in your browser, type '192.168.1.1' and enter ONLY the password, and if you haven't changed it, it's 'admin'. then you will be in the routers menu.

click on Port Forwarding, and enter the port needed.[/QUOTE][img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] Dan, you're my new best friend!
Alright, I'm at the port forwarding screen, and they have my ip address listed several times with a box at the end of each. Is this where I enter the ID2 port #?

Edit: Um.. I found the port #'s in the readme, but they're four digits or more. This is the configuration:

Service Port Range	Protocol	IP address
[upto5 digits]~[upto5 digits]	(TCP,UDP,or both)	192.168.1.[upto3 digits]

And what I have found in the readme is 4digits~4digits and 5digits.

[ 01-04-2003, 09:53 PM: Message edited by: Nanobyte ]

[Night Stalker]

Originally posted by Nanobyte: quote: Originally posted by Ziroc: quote: Originally posted by Nanobyte: I'm so confused. The only manual I got with the router is this 6-page instruction booklet on how to set it up. I don't think it includes anything about configuration and ports. What I'm using is a Linksys WUSB11 v. 2.6

in your browser, type '192.168.1.1' and enter ONLY the password, and if you haven't changed it, it's 'admin'. then you will be in the routers menu.

click on Port Forwarding, and enter the port needed.[/QUOTE][img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] Dan, you're my new best friend!
Alright, I'm at the port forwarding screen, and they have my ip address listed several times with a box at the end of each. Is this where I enter the ID2 port #?

Edit: Um.. I found the port #'s in the readme, but they're four digits or more. This is the configuration:

Service Port Range	Protocol	IP address
[upto5 digits]~[upto5 digits]	(TCP,UDP,or both)	192.168.1.[upto3 digits]

And what I have found in the readme is 4digits~4digits and 5digits.[/QUOTE]the port (range) goes in the first collum. TCP goes in the second. You computer IP goes in the third. Get your ip by going to a dos prompt and type ipconfig. Your IP will look like 192.168.1.X NOTE this may change if you use DHCP so you may have to do this each time you want to host a game or configure the networking info for the computer manually. (DHCP is an auto config for networking)

[ 01-04-2003, 10:12 PM: Message edited by: Night Stalker ]

[Ziroc]

Originally posted by Nanobyte: quote: Originally posted by Ziroc: quote: Originally posted by Nanobyte: I'm so confused. The only manual I got with the router is this 6-page instruction booklet on how to set it up. I don't think it includes anything about configuration and ports. What I'm using is a Linksys WUSB11 v. 2.6

in your browser, type '192.168.1.1' and enter ONLY the password, and if you haven't changed it, it's 'admin'. then you will be in the routers menu.

click on Port Forwarding, and enter the port needed.[/QUOTE][img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] Dan, you're my new best friend!
Alright, I'm at the port forwarding screen, and they have my ip address listed several times with a box at the end of each. Is this where I enter the ID2 port #?

Edit: Um.. I found the port #'s in the readme, but they're four digits or more. This is the configuration:

Service Port Range	Protocol	IP address
[upto5 digits]~[upto5 digits]	(TCP,UDP,or both)	192.168.1.[upto3 digits]

And what I have found in the readme is 4digits~4digits and 5digits.[/QUOTE][img]smile.gif[/img] here is my setup, Icewind Dale uses Gamespy I believe to host games, so use these ports:



Make SURE where it says 'IP address' that your PC has the same IP. Yours may be 192.168.1.2 or .3 or .4... do what the other member said, and type 'winipconfig' or click on your network settings in control panel and click on TCP/IP and see what yer IP is. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Let me know if it works for ya!

[ 01-04-2003, 10:48 PM: Message edited by: Ziroc ]

[Larry_OHF]

Ziroc, can you explain to me why you have UDP enabled and not the TCP on your example? Why are the other ons both chosen? On my router utility, I can only enable one or the other. I have the spot to place the outgoing, and if it is TCP or UDP...then I have another spot to place the incoming, with the choice of TCP or UDP. Then I can choose to enable it. ALso, the title of the thing, like your's. My understanding is that TCP is a message that gets broken down into fragments and reassembled,,,but the UDP does not break down in transit. I have chosen UDP, as you did in your example, but I want to know if that was the right thing to do.

By the way...I do not have the option to put in an IP address.

[ 08-07-2003, 11:13 PM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]

[Cloudbringer]

HELP!

This is JUST the problem I'm dealing with now! Only I host IWD and BG2 games and since the LynkSys router was installed nobody can connect! I did go in and change ports for BG2 supposedly...but I'm not even sure we got the right ones. (I'm at work so I can't check what we put in). Don't think we set up the UDP, though, maybe that's the problem?

Nacht read someplace that some designer on BG2 said it needs 'control of ports', so we wondered if it was even POSSIBLE to host a game of BG2 with a wireless network router in place.

GREAT thread, and VERY timely for me!

[Larry_OHF]

Cloudy, look at what Granamere told me in the NWN forum concerning the same thing, and see if it helps.

[Cloudbringer]

Larryl, thanks, but it's not the firewall that's the problem, I think. Plus I'm not sure of the ports for BG2. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Cloudbringer]

BUMPING for

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!

[Bungleau]

Cloudy,

Have you checked the Linksys website? When I first set up my cable modem with a Linksys, it gave me very good instructions, and I believe I've seen similar instructions for setting up on-line gaming environments. You might check there to see if you can find something that will help.