Trying to play PC Games online with two machines on the same network...

[Chapbass]

AT, need a little help!

I've experienced this problem on several games, and its getting frustrating. The best I can explain this is through a scenario im going through right now.


Myself and several friends are trying to play Rise of Nations together. Theres 4 of us. Myself and person 2 are both in the same apartment. Person 3 is at a 2nd location, and person 4 is at a 3rd location. So two of us are on a LAN together, the other two are at their separate places.


I went to host a game, and it seems like either player 2 can connect to me (either by my external IP or by LAN ip), or the two externals can connect, but whenever everyone tries to get on, everything gets totally messed. Itll kick someone, or not let them connect, or something.


I've had similar problems with other games, and even non pc games, like COD Modern warfare 1 several months ago, several PS3s in the same house, and we couldn't connect to the same party.

Anyone have any ideas why this might be? I have myself as DMZ, no firewall problems as individually everyone can see everyone. We even tried something like Hamachi to set up a vpn, didn't seem to work.

Come on AT networking gurus, come through for me!

 

[Jamsan]

I've had great luck in the past using an app called Tunngle. It's very similar to the way Hamachi works behind the scenes, but different on the front end. Instead of creating a private network and having your friends join, you basically just join an existing room for the game you want to play and you'll be on the same network as others and can play. I've never used it for Rise of Nations, but have used it with several other games that didn't work over Hamachi (especially with Vista and 7 clients).

This article goes into greater detail on how it works, what games it works for, etc. The application is currently only available in German (the website / registration is English), so the article also has the step by step on how to get the application going if you don't know German.

http://versatile1.wordpress.com/200...-enabled-pc-games-over-the-internet-for-free/

 

[Chapbass]

Thanks for the suggestion, jamsan. I'll look into it tomorrow night.

Anyone else want to chime in with suggestions?

 

[BATCH71]

Thanks for the suggestion, jamsan. I'll look into it tomorrow night.

Anyone else want to chime in with suggestions?

Hi,

I had similar issues hosting WC3 when my wife and I play together here.

You will need to do port forwarding on the router and assign each a port forwarding address so the router will no which packets to send where.

The other solution is to have one of the "single" other players host and that will eleviate the problem also as port forwarding "may" not be needed then.

I am not a network expert but I do no enough to get me in trouble.

Hope this helps 😉

Dave