Multiplayer problem. Could not connect.

[Scotters1]

A buddy of mine and I played the game at my house. He had a labtop and I used a desktop. It worked great!

A week later he called me from his house and wanted to play. We tried several times to get it to play online. It was weird, because at first he found my game, but we couldn't advance, and I discovered that my firewall was blocking him. After selecting unblock, we tried again, and he could never find the game. We both took turns as hosts, and tried both TCP and UDP.

Any ideas? Did we do something wrong?

[RD Oddball]

Sometimes it takes quite a bit of fiddling with the router settings to get the proper ports opened. Hoping someone else here has posts at their fingertips that go into detail about the various ways to set your router up.

[Scotters1]

After reading the manual, I discovered that you must use your external IP address. Now when I tried to host the game, it only showed one ip address, so I assume that was my external address. I use comcast cable for my internet, so can anyone help me out here? Any suggestions on what we can try? This is the first time that I have ever done something like this, so I'm in the dark. How do I "fiddle with the router settings?" What else can we do?

Thanks!

[xe5]

Use What Is My IP .com

[Andrew Williams]

19.2 IP ADDRESS
19.2.1 EXTERNAL IP ADDRESS
»» There are web sites such as whatismyip.com and checkip.org that
will display the user’s current external IP address. Additionally,
there are freeware applications such as Get My IP Address and IP
Address Monster that will display the user’s external IP address.
»» One of the easiest ways for the HOST player to determine his current
external IP address is to start Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem, click the
Multiplayer button on the Command Screen, then click the HOST button
Note: A connection to the
Internet or LAN is required.
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Fighting online
on the Multiplayer Screen. The Host’s IP address will then be displayed
in the lower left of the screen, to the right of the Search button.
»» It is important for a HOST player who accesses the Internet via a LAN, from
behind a router or through a proxy server, to provide the JOINER players
with his external gateway IP address. In such cases, when the HOST uses
the Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem Multiplayer Screen to determine
his IP address there will often be two IP addresses shown, the local IP
address followed by the external or gateway IP address. It is the HOST
external gateway IP address that must be provided to JOINER players.