Umm, what

[DEECONX]

Spent the afternoon flying and dying for quite a while, then after dying a flaming death off a cv, it booted me off. When I logged back on this is what I got....




I went to my firewall from control panel and cant find a way to do this, let alone know where to look. But why now? Been flying and dying for a week or two and suddenly today this happens. I haven't changed anything as far as security or settings go. What do? 

[Delirium]

You need to set up an exemption in regards to Aces High, or you need to run AH without the firewall present. I would recommend the former, rather than the latter.'

  What kind of firewall do you have? If you let us know the type, we can walk you through the process.

[DEECONX]

"Windows Firewall with Advanced Security"

[DEECONX]

OK so far what I have done is:

Windows key + X
Control Panel
System and Security
Allow and app through Firewall
Aces High
OK



still won't work... what did I miss? 

[Zimme83]

I have seen that message a couple of times when AH server is for some reason unavailable, it doesn't seems to have anything with my windows firewall (its not on) to do at all and when the computer can access the server again the message disappears.

[Delirium]

What does your ping plot say, Kassill?

[DEECONX]

What does your ping plot say, Kassill?

My what?

[The Fugitive]

Download this program and install it.

http://www.pingplotter.com/downloads/pngplt_1.exe

Start the program and in the top left add this address

71.252.137.154

in the bottom left click the trace button and let it run for 5-10 minutes.

Capture a screen shot and post it here. Any "red" or lots of lost packets is bad. Posting the picture will give clues to these guys as to where the trouble might be.

Basically the warning your getting is saying the game can't reach the servers. The ping plot may show why.

[DEECONX]

Well idk, it started working again. I'll try that tomorrow just to see what's up though, thanks guys

[The Fugitive]

Your ISP may have just had a problem and it took them a bit to fix it, thats why your connection went south.

[Bizman]

The firewall message you got is a generic message for almost any kind of connection related errors. Back in the days of Windows98 and early XP ZoneAlarm was very widely used and AH had to be re-allowed after every update, hence the mentioning ZA by name. A modernized version might be something like "Connecting to the AH server has failed, check if something has changed since the last time you've run AH."

[Skuzzy]

Actually the firewall message is triggered for the explicit failure to open any type of network connection.  There are two points of failure.

1)  The local PC.
2)  The Internet connection, itself.

The game assumes it is a firewall issue, when, in fact, it can be other problems.  Sometimes a reboot of the PC and/or the Internet router will clear up the problem.  Consumer grade routers, due to the caching of connections, can easily run out of open paths for connections.  Once that happens, a reboot of the router will clear it up.

[USCH]

Actually the firewall message is triggered for the explicit failure to open any type of network connection.  There are two points of failure.

1)  The local PC.
2)  The Internet connection, itself.

The game assumes it is a firewall issue, when, in fact, it can be other problems.  Sometimes a reboot of the PC and/or the Internet router will clear up the problem.  Consumer grade routers, due to the caching of connections, can easily run out of open paths for connections.  Once that happens, a reboot of the router will clear it up.

i agree, when my connection sucks I get the message you saw, for a moment then it lets me in after a few seconds.