battle.net over router? (wc3)

[bleuiko]

My roommate and I are trying to play warcraft 3 over battle.net... we have different keys and can login to battle.net seperately... so that's not a problem. the problem is that we're behind a router with only 1 IP... is there a way so that we can both login to battle.net? When we both try to do battle.net at the same time, one of us can't connect

its a dlink router if that helps

thanks all!!!
bleuiko

 

[PowerMacG5]

Unless battle.net allows the same external IP connect more than once at the same time, no. When you use a router, it creates a subnet so that x amount of computers can use the same external IP at once. The only problem is that the port that you are using can only be forwarded to one computer at a time. I would say no because of the port issue, and the single external IP shared between two computers.

 

[SCSI]

I have a Linksys router and my son and I can play on B.Net simultanously, but we can't play in the the same game. However, that was in StarCraft/BroodWar. I have WC III but my graphic card is to old to support the game, but try this; you setup a game profile in the west server and you roomate setup a profile in the east server.

 

[joinT]

You could also try changing the port forwarding for one of your PC's.
Also, I heard that the Linksys router works best for this type of need.

 

[bleuiko]

we finally figured it out.... we port forwarded and put one of us on DMZ.... it works now =)

 

Originally posted by: joinT
You could also try changing the port forwarding for one of your PC's.
Also, I heard that the Linksys router works best for this type of need.

linksys is a dream for this. Had 4 of us playing on a lan against people anline. No problems what-so-ever.

 

[WarSong]

our d-link di-711 has no problem doing this either.

 

[DJediMaster]

Can you guys join games that were created by your other client PC's behind the router? I'm trying to get this to work but port forwarding doesn't help this.