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Article #26656Re: Need help with Generals' Direct Connect!
From: HeXetic
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 06:13
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 06:13
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The Direct Connect option is almost completely unable to traverse firewalls or routers, it's meant purely for local networks. You'll have to use the Internet play option instead. -- - Tim G. "Kot Zloj" <kot_zloj@pisem.net> wrote in message news:f25c320d.0310250435.7dbaac1e@posting.google.com > Me and my friend are trying to direct connect but when he connects I > can see him joing but I can't see him choosing any army or color and > after about a minute it says "player dropped, not responding". > I have a DI-614+ router and an ADSL modem. I've tried DMZ, port > forwarding but it doesn't seem to work. What should I do?
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