Question About Online Multiplayer

[Pax25]

My cousin also recently bought the Matrix version of the Campaign Series. We used to play head to head over the internet back in the old days, but that was before the use of complicated routers etc.

We tried playing last night but could not get the game working. I'm pretty sure it is a port forwarding issue on my end since I am behind a router. I've been reading about how to port forward on the web, but I don't know which ports I need to open.

Does anybody know what ports need to be opened to get an online game going?

I found an answer on the Matrix forum, but wasn't sure how to interpret it. The answer listed four different options. Here is the link:

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2002566

Thanks.

[Scud]

Protocol / Port (or range) / Host Port

TCP / 2300-2400 / 2300

UDP / 2300-2400 / 2300

TCP / 47624 / 47624

TCP / 6073 / 6073


So you need to set up a rules for each to open those ports, or port ranges. So the first one would be open a range from 2300-2400 for external ports and 2300 for internal (if I'm reading that right). Or make both the same range.

Make another rule, exactly the same for UDP.

Another rule for TCP, Start and End port the same (no range).

...and one more for 6073.

Your Server IP address will be the IP within your network (the one your router has assigned you). 192.168.1.## (## being a number between 2 and 256). I assign a static number to my computer to make it easier.

All of this should be found under the heading of Port Forwarding or Port Triggering in your router's manager.

Don't forget to make sure your firewall isn't the issue as well. The easiest way to tell is to just turn it off and see if that fixes it. If so, you need to set up a rule to allow those same ports.

That help?

Dave

[Pax25]

Somewhat.

I bought a new router and followed the steps of portforward.com

I opened up 2300-2400 in both TCP and UDP and I opened 47624 and 6073 in TCP. I forwarded these ports to a static IP I set up.

Hopefully this will work when I test it.