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Re: Starcraft trouble . Please help .

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From: Luc The Perverse
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:07
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cal wrote:

> I have a problem and it seems to be with RTS games mostly but it does
> happen on others too .
> Me and my friend can never play each other online with games due to
> not being able to see the servers we create or it saying the opposing
> persons lac is to high . 
> He is on AOL and i am on Virgin . Does anyone know what could be
> causing this very annoying problem . 
> any help is much appreciated 
> cheers cal
>

AOL could be the problem.

Could be a firewall on either machine.

Could be you don't have the right UDP port forwarded (or none at all)

Or it could be all of the above :)

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Cheers!

Luc The Perverse
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