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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: benches243 on January 08, 2007, 05:57:57 PM
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ok im haveing prob with makeing 8 player arena's. so i do everything right except no 1 comes into my arena. and i dont no 1 person that likes teams and dont like smog8. so i set everything up right but i cant have ppl come in. im on a wirless internet and its pretty fast. i have dsl. and the computer im on is an insperon 2200 dell. and i havent had 1 prob with ah yet with the computer im on. the wirless network security is off and windows stuff is off. i dont no y its not working. and help would be appreciated.
thanx,
mike
im not afraid of dieing but im derified of letting my girl saunder down
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you have to go into your routor access .. set up your pc for 2000-6000 ports open for Aces high ... also do the same in anyother firewall program you may have .. if it still wont host correctly set you pc up as dmz host .
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i set the stuff to 2000 to 6000 port and it still dont work im not sure how to make my computer a dmz host my dmz is on. does my ip address matter?
thanx mike
im not afraid of dieing but im derified of letting down my girl saunder
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also for the ports what should be the name of it like aces high or aces high 2??
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Did something change with the patch? I used to be able to host fine before the patch, but now I can't. My router's still forwarding ports 2000 to 6000 to my internal address, and my software firewall is still giving Aceshigh.exe full permissions.
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Hello?
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Benny, im not sure since I do not have a Firewall myself.
But I think you need to reallow AH for it - even if it says that it still allows the aces high.exe. The patches change the exe file, that means that the firewall only allows the OLD aceshigh.exe, not the changed one.
RE: Hello.... did you ever think about the fact that its weekend? ;) Skuzzy is HOPEFULLY not in the office... he hangs out on this board weekends way too much IMHO.
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Originally posted by Schatzi
Benny, im not sure since I do not have a Firewall myself.
But I think you need to reallow AH for it - even if it says that it still allows the aces high.exe. The patches change the exe file, that means that the firewall only allows the OLD aceshigh.exe, not the changed one.
RE: Hello.... did you ever think about the fact that its weekend? ;) Skuzzy is HOPEFULLY not in the office... he hangs out on this board weekends way too much IMHO.
Weekend? No, I'm going through withdrawal and it is difficult to think rationally. Yes, I reallowed Aceshigh.exe, and I also checked the events log to make sure incoming and outgoing connections were not being blocked when I put up the server. I'm not network smart, but I've followed all of the directions and explored every possiblity I can think of. It's worked until the patch, and I can't figure out why it won't work now. And not being able to fly is driving me crazy.
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Hehe, I understand the withdrawal part :).
Are you only unable to host? Or cant you join any H2H server hosted by someone else either?
Also, are you sitting behind a router? Then you might have to check the Router-Firewall as well....
And lastly, id just try turning off Firewall completely... see if you can host then. That will at least tell you if the Firewall is the problem or not.
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ive never been able to host a game. im behind a linksys router and im wirless on a laptop. to open the ports i have to give it a name so should i do aces high.exe? and above it said from a different guy to make your computer a dmz host? how do i do that.
thanx
mike
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Originally posted by Schatzi
Also, are you sitting behind a router? Then you might have to check the Router-Firewall as well....
And lastly, id just try turning off Firewall completely... see if you can host then. That will at least tell you if the Firewall is the problem or not.
I tried turning off the firewall completely, and still I show up as having zero players.
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Do not select "LAN" when trying to host or join a game in H2H.
Does this help?
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will i go in to creat internet game and i get everything the settings and the plane its just no one can get into ah. thats the problem my fire wall is off and i did the nameing of the ports as aceshigh2.exe and still i cant host and all of my other firewalls r off. so i dont no what to do.
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Nor do I. Confirmation from Skuzzy that the port forwarding system has not been changed would be helpful.
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Benny, if the system had changed, hed have stated so already. Take his no show as a confirm that it is still the same.
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You're right. I rolled back to the previous patch, and it didn't fix the problem. It must be on my end. I tried totally disabling my software firewall, and that didn't work either. So I guess it's some setting on the router that I've overlooked. I just can't figure out what it is, as I've got the correct ports forwarded.
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If the game stopped working after the patch, it is due to a firewall triggering. By the way, if you are running McAfee or Norton firewall, you cannot disable them. You actually have to remove the software from your system to disbale them.
And yes, routers have firewalls also, unless you have specifically disabled it.
The ports range from 2000-6000 for both UDP and TCP.
Remove the firewall and try it.
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Here are some useful tips from someone who spent six months attempting to figure out how to host:
1. Sometimes your router's firewall must be "DISABLED" so that port forwarding will take effect.
2. Sometimes you have a DSL modem which is actually acting as a router which has a firewall in it, yet another router is hooked up to the DSL modem which is a router in itself. Since the DSL modem is a router, it has its own firewall, so un-plug your computer from the current router, plug it directly into the DSL modem, go to: Start>All Programs>Accessories>Command Prompt
Type in: ipconfig
Press Enter, now, the IP address located next to: Default Gateway should be copied and placed in the address bar of your internet browser. Such as this:
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/917_1166627466_step4.jpg)
Just make sure it doesn't read the same address.
Now, make sure that ports 2000-6000 on both UDP and TCP are forwarded to your computer's name (Or IP address, which is too located in the "ipconfig" from "Command Prompt".) or to your router. Now this should clear up the DSL modem. Alright, un-plug yourself from the DSL modem and back into the router you are using.
Now confirm that ports 2000-6000 on both UDP and TCP are being forwarded to your computer's name or your computer's IP address. NOTE: Since you just un-plugged from your DSL modem and re-entered into your DSL router, your IP address has changed. So open Command Prompt (Start>All Programs>Accessories>Command Prompt) again and run: ipconfig
Now, make sure that the ports are being forwarded to the IP address listed in Command Prompt.
Remember, these are tips, not resolutions to your problems, I hope this helped you out.
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ok so do i have to uninstall norten on my computer? my posts for the firewall driggering and the gamming ports r open and they r both open tcp and ucp. i have all my windows firewalls and regular firewalls off but i tried to turn everything in norten off. thanx
nown a cool13 in the air
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
And yes, routers have firewalls also, unless you have specifically disabled it.
The ports range from 2000-6000 for both UDP and TCP.
Remove the firewall and try it.
It's 2000-5000 again? Or is it 2000-6000?
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I'm hosting on 2000 - 6000 with no problems, try that.
EDIT: Just remembered, I think I wasn't capable of hosting when I only had 2000-5000 open on UDP and TCP, might wanna try 2000 - 6000.
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I just went from 2000-6000 back to 2000-5000 and then back to 2000-6000. I'm going to take a few screenshots and post them to show my exact settings. Perhaps someone can see a problem.
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Did you try un-plugging from your router and going straight into the DSL modem? That way you can check if it too has a firewall. That's all I can imagine is wrong at the time being.
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
If the game stopped working after the patch, it is due to a firewall triggering. By the way, if you are running McAfee or Norton firewall, you cannot disable them. You actually have to remove the software from your system to disbale them.
And yes, routers have firewalls also, unless you have specifically disabled it.
The ports range from 2000-6000 for both UDP and TCP.
Remove the firewall and try it.
Had that problem at work, trying to re-install some software on a customer's pc--they are windows services, and if ya know the funny names they use, you can stop their tasks there (my computer/manage/services)
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HOORAY! Woohoo! I feel happy! Roscoroo was right, it was the DMZ, not the port forwarding. A router reset had undone the modem's DMZ.
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:)