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if you are running windows firewall, you need to allow quake to access the 
internet in the firewall settings

if you have a router (such as linksys) connected, you will need to forward 
the ports used by quake to the machine running quake.

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"Richanor" <surveys@snookerking.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:1140996404.447687.29020@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
>i was wondering if anyone would be able to give me a few pointers.  I
> bought quake years ago when i was at uni, and used to play with friends
> over the uni's network.  in those days the computers and modems were
> too slow to have a decent game over the internet.
>
> however i was sorting through some old computer stuff the other day and
> found my old winquake disk.  i installed it (i'm running win xp) and it
> worked fine.  i wanted to play over the internet with my brother, but i
> have no idea how to do that.  he has the same version installed.  do i
> need to run some sort of server, or can i just connect directly to him?
> I'm not really interested in playing with other people on the
> internet, but if anyone could give me a few pointers as to how I might
> hook up a game with my brother, I'd really appreciate it.
>