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On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 21:36:25 -0500, "Sminky" <arlanrose@cox.net> wrote:

>A friend of mine and I have tried to play D3 via tcp/ip and can't seem to
>get anywhere.  We type in an address and nothing happens...no games appear
>to join in on.  We have even tried connecting to each other w/o success.  We
>are both using cable broadband (Cox ISP) on WinXP computers.  He is using
>XP's firewall and I am using Symantec software, but tinkering with and/or
>disabling the firewall doesn't seem to make any difference.  I have even
>tried putting his IP address in as an allowed computer w/o luck.  We're
>stymied.  Any suggestions as to what to try next?
>
>Sminky
>

 Do either (or both) of you use a router on your broadband connection?

 Even if you aren't, it's almost certain that the IP addresses you are
using are internal to Cox only, -not- public IP addresses, so pretty
much the only way your two machines could see each other would be if
you were by chance on the same network segment at Cox. Not very
likely.

 Tell me the first couple of octets of your IP and I can tell you if
they are public or private, ie 192.168.x.x or 10.10.x.x.

One thing you can try would be to open up a DOS command window
(Start-Run- type in "command") and try to ping your friend. Once the
DOS window is open at the C: prompt type "ping x.x.x.x" .(Replace the
x.x.x.x with your friend's IP address.)

HTH
Mike


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