Alright, I bought a Linksys BEFSR41, and when I play online games, me and my network, can play and interact fine, but if i make a server, we cannot come into my server, only one of us can. I've got the ports for the game opened, just wondering if anyone has some ideas. P.S. - It may be something to do with the dhcp, I haven't seen anything like it. May just be the router, should've stuck with the d-link, lol.
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Linksys BEFSR41 Problems
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Good Luck!
It has nothing to do with DHCP. Though I don't condone the use of DHCP because it takes up network traffic (get off your rump and configure your computers so they know who they are), I believe I can help you. Your router's IP address is probably 192.168.1.1 ; type that into your web browser. you should get the configuration page to your router come up. your default password is 'admin'. click the application/gaming tab, then click on the "UPnP fowarding" sub-tab. your problem is (most likely) that the server you set up behind your router isn't the one recieving incoming connection requests, your router is. find the port/ports your server accepts incoming connections on, and (using the UPnP window) set up your router to foward the necessary ports to the ip address your Server is at, save the changed, and play away. If that doesn't work you've probably got a poorly configured personal firewall or misconfigured client/server.
Khoeth Mora
patton525@hotmail.com
feel free to Contact me at patton525@hotmail.com
It has nothing to do with DHCP. Though I don't condone the use of DHCP because it takes up network traffic (get off your rump and configure your computers so they know who they are), I believe I can help you. Your router's IP address is probably 192.168.1.1 ; type that into your web browser. you should get the configuration page to your router come up. your default password is 'admin'. click the application/gaming tab, then click on the "UPnP fowarding" sub-tab. your problem is (most likely) that the server you set up behind your router isn't the one recieving incoming connection requests, your router is. find the port/ports your server accepts incoming connections on, and (using the UPnP window) set up your router to foward the necessary ports to the ip address your Server is at, save the changed, and play away. If that doesn't work you've probably got a poorly configured personal firewall or misconfigured client/server.
Khoeth Mora
patton525@hotmail.com
feel free to Contact me at patton525@hotmail.com
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