Quick Starcraft question

[nick1985]

Me and my brother are trying to join the same game on Battle.net. Whenever one of us tries to join the other's game, it says that the latency is too high, and we cant joing. Now, we have a DSL line, so what on earth could be the issue?

 

[villageidiot111]

You will both have the same IP, so maybe the game is getting confused.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: villageidiot111
You will both have the same IP, so maybe the game is getting confused.

Hmmm...likely. Anyway to solve this issue?

 

[Xylitol]

Try opening up a port for Starcraft
Maybe thanks to the other person-the game latency IS to high 😛

 

[dugweb]

yup, Ive had this problem before. bnet alots a certain amount of bandwidth per IP maybe?

 

[Alphathree33]

For technical reasons that make sense according to Blizzard, you cannot play two BNet games from the same IP address.

Even if your locally assigned DHCP addresses are different, your router has the same global IP assigned by your ISP, and that's the one BNet sees.

 

[Xylitol]

Quick question as it may be the answer
When you host a game, can people on B-Net join your game?

 

[Cooler]

Just do a lan game with him.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: Cooler
Just do a lan game with him.

yeah that works, but we wanted to play other people online

 

[0roo0roo]

http://www.techimo.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-7339.html

 

[Midlander]

If one of you has access to a VPN, you can use that as your other connection. We have had three on one SC game through the same router using this technique (2 VPN connections). DSL or cable works.