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Article #26813Re: C&C Generals Online
From: HeXetic
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 01:42
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 01:42
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I think Generals wasn't designed with being able to connect 2 computers via a shared connection to other people on Generals Online. There's probably an article in the EA support database about this. Try http://techsupport.ea.com/ and click on "technical support" -- - Tim G. "TWiSTeD ViBE" <twisted_vibeNO@FKINSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:br9hpu$9cv$1@kermit.esat.net > Hi > > Myself and a friend both play C&C Generals online from the same connection > (a 2MB adsl line in the UK) yet we seem to have problems with keeping a > connection at the same time. > > Are there any firewall issues, ports I need to open or configuration changes > that could fix / improve this? > > Also whilst I'm posting is there any way we can run a dedicated server for > LAN play as adding lots of computer players does slow the hosts computer > down... > > Thanks in advance! > > twisted
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!internal1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp1.fuse.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!prodigy.com!prodigy.com!pd7cy2so!shaw.ca!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "HeXetic" <hexemail@hottic.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.command.and.conquer References: <br9hpu$9cv$1@kermit.esat.net> Subject: Re: C&C Generals Online Lines: 28 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: <H29Cb.10480$aF2.1162536@news20.bellglobal.com> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:42:27 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.229.163.132 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1071193383 64.229.163.132 (Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:43:03 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:43:03 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit