Re: Games from behind a firewall

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From: Chris Cole
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:28

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> If this fixes most of your problems then you probably did it correctly.
> 
> The lagging is probably coming from someone else, very likely if you are 
> playing in 3vs3 games - other people who perhaps did not have their ports 
> forwarded ;)
> 
> Once you get going it is not client/server - but there is originally a host 
> computer.  If you are the host then you need to be able to accept incoming 
> connections to setup the game initially.    If your router receives incoming 
> TCP or UDP packets unsolicited, then it won't know what to do with them, 
> unless you have setup port forwarding - and then the problem that you are 
> seeing will happen, you will appear to be hosting normally, but no one will 
> be able to join your game.
> 
> --
> LTP
> 
> :) 
> 
> 

Can port forwarding be used to solve the problem of two machines behind 
one router/ADSL modem wanting to play on Battle.net in the same game 
with someone else farther afield?

Cheers,
Chris

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