Battlefield 3 - 2 pcs and 1 router

[dfuze]

I wasn't sure if this should go here or in Computer Help, but I'll try here first. Like the title says, I have 2 copies of BF3, one on my pc and one on my kid's pc. We have separate Origin accounts. If one of us join a match and then the other tries to join, it kicks the first one out and lets the 2nd one play. Oddly, we can sometimes join an empty server just the two of us and it allows us in.

I'm at work now so I can't remember all the stuff we have tried via google searching the issue, but I think some was turning off network discovery and disabling upnp.

My router is the old sturdy Linksys WRT54g.

I'm open to all ideas, thanks in advance.

 

[KidNiki1]

i had this same issue at my house. i asked here but i dont think i ever got an answer. i never did get a chance to fix it, but one of the things i found and i was going to try is this. maybe it will work, i cant say tho. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoAcRabdxhQ

 

[PrincessFrosty]

If I had to guess I'd say the admin of the server has configured the server to not allow connections from the same IP address, because you're behind the same IP it's a safe assumption your PCs are in close proximity and are capable of screen watching each other in order to "cheat".

I don't play BF3 but I know this was very common in BFBC2, you'd either get kicked or they'd mod the server so the screen went pitch black when you were in ghost cam mode to stop screen watching.

 

[Barfo]

If I had to guess I'd say the admin of the server has configured the server to not allow connections from the same IP address, because you're behind the same IP it's a safe assumption your PCs are in close proximity and are capable of screen watching each other in order to "cheat".

I don't play BF3 but I know this was very common in BFBC2, you'd either get kicked or they'd mod the server so the screen went pitch black when you were in ghost cam mode to stop screen watching.

I've played BFBC2 with a friend, under the same router, no problem at all.

 

[dfuze]

Thanks for the link, I'll try it out tonight even though I might have already done those things, it looked familiar.

 

[dfuze]

I gave it a shot last night and it looked like the upnp wasn't disabled on my kid's pc. Gave it a test and for a quick round and it seemed to work for us. Thanks for the help!

 

[pugh]

nice.. glad it worked out for you.