temxs
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- Ottawa, Ontario
Win XP service pack 2 2g ram p4 3.0ghz
Brief history of the situation;
A customer couldn't play his favorite game anymore (Combat Flight Simulator 1), logging into the Multi-play feature, TCP/IP would not respond when his friend's server is up. He called a technician which resulted in the whole internet connection crashing.
I was then called into the scene, and setup the Linksys router properly. This gentlemen plays his favorite games, Battlefield 1942 as well as many others, however, the one game still not responding to multi-play is Combat Flight Simulator.
I've tried setting up the router with the specific port forwards, then DMZ, and still nothing. As a test I then took the router out of the equation and connected the PC directly into the modem, the multi-play friend's IP shows up, it works.
I've tried to understand the cisco linksys router, I disabled the firewall features aswell to test.
I've officially ran out of ideas, I also tried with another linksys router and the same result, nothing. The only way the game works is without the router, but all the other games work perfectly.
I've probably been at this too long and need a fresh pair of eyes on this, any ideas ?
- The game has not been functional with the router for ~14 days now
- The firewall with windows xp is disactivated and the other software is Avast. Added the exceptions list anyway including the game and specific ports. (the game runs without the router present, didn't spend too much time on this issue because of it)
- Another router was tried with the same result (different router although still linksys)
- No software was installed according to the customer since the problem started. Which leads me to believe it could/may be result of a windows patch/update but which patch would specificaly block the game using a router and not using the modem directly.
Brief history of the situation;
A customer couldn't play his favorite game anymore (Combat Flight Simulator 1), logging into the Multi-play feature, TCP/IP would not respond when his friend's server is up. He called a technician which resulted in the whole internet connection crashing.
I was then called into the scene, and setup the Linksys router properly. This gentlemen plays his favorite games, Battlefield 1942 as well as many others, however, the one game still not responding to multi-play is Combat Flight Simulator.
I've tried setting up the router with the specific port forwards, then DMZ, and still nothing. As a test I then took the router out of the equation and connected the PC directly into the modem, the multi-play friend's IP shows up, it works.
I've tried to understand the cisco linksys router, I disabled the firewall features aswell to test.
I've officially ran out of ideas, I also tried with another linksys router and the same result, nothing. The only way the game works is without the router, but all the other games work perfectly.
I've probably been at this too long and need a fresh pair of eyes on this, any ideas ?
- The game has not been functional with the router for ~14 days now
- The firewall with windows xp is disactivated and the other software is Avast. Added the exceptions list anyway including the game and specific ports. (the game runs without the router present, didn't spend too much time on this issue because of it)
- Another router was tried with the same result (different router although still linksys)
- No software was installed according to the customer since the problem started. Which leads me to believe it could/may be result of a windows patch/update but which patch would specificaly block the game using a router and not using the modem directly.
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