hosting games

[homeskilit21]

does anyone know why some computers cannot host battle.net games?

[A-Thousand-Lies]

does anyone know why some computers cannot host battle.net games?

Because of the firewall or router activated on some computers.

[homeskilit21]

yah, i haev my computer set up on a router, is their anyway around this?

[Reign of Kalos]

Open port 6112. Do this through router management, either you already know how to get there, or you contact the person who put the system in, who will most certainly know how to. In other words find the system administrator and they could do it, assuming that they are willing to open a deliberate security hole in the router.

[Bartuc the 1st]

well I deleted it and have wireless [2.4 gh]
and I cannot host
is it my router?is it somthing else?

[Reign of Kalos]

well I deleted it and have wireless [2.4 gh]
and I cannot host
is it my router?is it somthing else?
What do you mean deleted it? Deleted what? You can't have removed router management, it's the underlying programming of the device. Without that it won't do anything more than look cool.

[Bartuc the 1st]

uhhh firewall.......firewall can be disabled too

[Reign of Kalos]

uhhh firewall.......firewall can be disabled too
Well yeah the firewall can be disabled, but how in the name of Ner'zul was I suppose to know what you were refering to when you mentioned 'it'? And the chances are that you haven't forwarded the port to your machine. It's more than just letting it through the router, but directing the flow after that point. That is done by internal IP's. I take it if you worked out how to disable the firewall (A little risky if you ask me, sort of defeats the point of having one, aside from the centralised gateway) then you can tell it to forward. Unless you just removed the firewall on your computer (Far more likely) and haven't actually touched the router.

[homeskilit21]

i set up my router myself and i still dont knwo what your talking about, i dont think i have a router management (i could be wrong) but all i think i did was plug it in, hook up the comps and it worked fine.

[Reign of Kalos]

i set up my router myself and i still dont knwo what your talking about, i dont think i have a router management (i could be wrong) but all i think i did was plug it in, hook up the comps and it worked fine.
Didn't it have an instruction book or online website to aquire help from? Try google'ing the routers name / number combination, there should be some sort of notes on it. Remember that a router acts like a firewall as well, it blocks intruders. The only way it know if something like Bnet isn't an intruder is by telling it so. Is it a Linksys or a Netgear (God forbid something more obscure)?

[homeskilit21]

its linksys, it came with a book, i dont remember anything relative to this in it (it wasnt very big) but ill try the website.

[Reign of Kalos]

Ok Linksys. This is a bit rough as you didn't mention which type (the list of numbers/letters mix that acts as ID to what class it is) so it's all generic.

Firstly, go to http://192.168.1.1/
It will prompt you for a username and password.
Leave username blank and put in your password, 'admin' by default.

Then go to advanced tab --> forwarding
Put in the port number (6112) and check either TCP, udp, or both (don't use a linksys anymore, haven't in years).

Then you have to figure out your computer's IP address. If you aren't sure of it, hit the "setup" tab and then go to 'dhcp' and then dchp client table, should be a mention in there.

[Divine_Pie.exe]

Baleted....

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