Gnashing my teeth

[cliometrician]

I'm desperate here---I can no longer connect for MP. A couple of weeks ago I could play if a friend hosted, though I could not host. Then, about 7-8 days ago I had to replace my router. Since then I've been unable to play MP.

Ok, I went through the entire port-forwarding instructions. On the Port Forward website I used their port checker to see if my port was open. I got two messages:

Ping Result: we were not able to ping your router

Port Check Result: your port is open!

I still can't host or join and I've grown weary of trying....but there has to be a solution somewhere. Can anyone help?

Let me ask this question. When you get to the last stage of port forwarding, and you've clicked on "virtual servers" on your router, you are asked to put in your IP. My internal IP is 192.168.2.4

The number I filled in was the static number that I thought I had created:
192.168.2.40

Still nothing.

I have to be doing something wrong---just don't know what it is.

Oh, yeah, here's something even crazier. When I try to log on for MP for Sid Meier's Gettysburg, I'm kicked off the internet just for attempting to log on. No one I've talked to has ever heard of anything like that. It's strange.....being kicked off just for trying to connect? Yeah, that all happened after I changed routers.

[Little Powell]

cliometrician wrote:

I'm desperate here---I can no longer connect for MP. A couple of weeks ago I could play if a friend hosted, though I could not host. Then, about 7-8 days ago I had to replace my router. Since then I've been unable to play MP.

Ok, I went through the entire port-forwarding instructions. On the Port Forward website I used their port checker to see if my port was open. I got two messages:

Ping Result: we were not able to ping your router

Port Check Result: your port is open!

I still can't host or join and I've grown weary of trying....but there has to be a solution somewhere. Can anyone help?

Let me ask this question. When you get to the last stage of port forwarding, and you've clicked on "virtual servers" on your router, you are asked to put in your IP. My internal IP is 192.168.2.4

The number I filled in was the static number that I thought I had created:
192.168.2.40

Still nothing.

I have to be doing something wrong---just don't know what it is.

Oh, yeah, here's something even crazier. When I try to log on for MP for Sid Meier's Gettysburg, I'm kicked off the internet just for attempting to log on. No one I've talked to has ever heard of anything like that. It's strange.....being kicked off just for trying to connect? Yeah, that all happened after I changed routers.

If your IP address is 192.168.2.4, then that's the number you need to put into your virtual servers for the port you are forwarding (not 192.168.2.40)

To verify you are putting in the correct address, you can open up a command prompt.

Start -> Run -> Type CMD. Type in ipconfig in the dos window.

Look for your IP address. Make sure that's the number you are putting in as your virtual server.

[cliometrician]

When the ip address of 192.168.2.40 did not work, I did the same thing for 192.168.2.4, and the same thing as well for the default of 182.168.2.1

None of those worked. Still struggling

[KG_Soldier]

http://www.amazon.com/Time-Cross-Econom ... 93312186#_

Is that your favorite book?

[norb]

I have never seen port forwarding referred to as virtual servers, are you sure you're in the right area.

[cliometrician]

Can't remember where I got that term. But I've been through the port forwarding instructions at least three times now. There is something else going on--since trying to play MP Sid Meier's Gettysburg now throws me off the internet each time.

I have somebody from the Best Buy Geek Squad coming to my home next week to try and tackle it.

[cliometrician]

www.amazon.com/Time-Cross-Economics-Ame ... 93312186#_

No, it's not my favorite book, but it was first published when I was in graduate school....some thirty years ago. When I taught history I did include it in my historiography of slavery lecture.

Did you find the book on my Librarything.com list?

My favorite book: FRONTIER DEFENSE IN THE CIVIL WAR: TEXAS RANGERS AND REBELS, Texas A&M Press, 1992. [ I wrote it [

[Little Powell]

norb wrote:

I have never seen port forwarding referred to as virtual servers, are you sure you're in the right area.

It's referred to Virtual Servers in my Belkin router. Each port you setup are listed as your virtual servers.. Yeah, I thought it was weird too the first time I saw it.

It must be something else.. Do you have a virus scanner that might be causing it? Maybe a firewall enabled?

Or if it's a Belkin router, make sure your local IP is also specified in the DMZ feature.

[KG_Soldier]

"Did you find the book on my Librarything.com list?"

No. . . I had to write an essay on it in a U.S. Economic History class as an undergraduate years ago -- found it thought provoking and interesting.

Given your name, I thought perhaps. . . .

[cliometrician]

"Did you find the book on my Librarything.com list?"

No. . . I had to write an essay on it in a U.S. Economic History class as an undergraduate years ago -- found it thought provoking and interesting.

Given your name, I thought perhaps. . .

Ah.....cliometrician. Now I get it, and yes, that's where I got the name, now part of my email address. And yes, I was using computers at the time in my historical research (back in the 70s). But that was back when the computers were huge used spools of computer tape, and we used punch-cards to input data.

Yep, I'm that old!