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Article #26309Re: Linksys Router
From: Steen Gellett
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 06:56
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 06:56
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"Nathan Brazil" <natebrazil@[no+spam)hotmail.com> skrev i en meddelelse news:mqycnR_hAO9l56-iU-KYvg@comcast.com... > Greetings all... > > A friend of mine has done everything in his power to try to get C&C Generals > to work with his Linksys router. We know that his options.ini file is fine; > he's called support and their advice did not help. I've completely turned > off my firewall and this does not help. > > He cannot connect either "online" or via network direct connect. He's set > his firewall to "DMZ Mode" (I believe that's the name of this mode) where > his system should be wide open to anyone - including crackers unfortunately. > But that does not even work. > > I can see his name appear when I try being the server but he gets a > "connection time-out". > > We can play fine if he connects his cable modem directly to the wall and > does not use this router at all. > > It would seem that it's simply impossible to get C&C Generals working in > multi-player mode using this manufacture's router. Has ANYONE managed to > get this game working in multi-player mode with a Linksys router? > > Any "secret tips" that may help - some idea that support wouldn't even know? > (We've tried to set up a VNC but were unable to get it working). > > Nathan If you get this "program" to work with ANY router then you are the first one in the history of earth !! The "net" part of this program ( game ) has been programmed by a pair of not so well trained monkeys !! EA has released a patch that should solve the problem, ( this time 4 not so well trained monkeys have programmed the patch ) so it does not work, and EA dont fu..... care ?? > >
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!news5.aus1.giganews.com!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp1.fuse.net!mephistopheles.news.clara.net!news.clara.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.tele.dk!not-for-mail From: "Steen Gellett" <steen@gellett.net> Newsgroups: alt.games.command.and.conquer References: <mqycnR_hAO9l56-iU-KYvg@comcast.com> Subject: Re: Linksys Router Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 08:56:29 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Lines: 49 Message-ID: <3f349b1c$0$5187$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk> Organization: TDC Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.63.91.113 X-Trace: 1060412188 dread11.news.tele.dk 5187 80.63.91.113 X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit