this is getting serious

stumpy wallace · Post by **stumpy wallace** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:16 am

ive tried to fix my connection doing everyhitng from A-Z i think the problem is that i get lagged out if im on for about 2 min 9 secs then my dad says o y dont u reinstall the game... i siad sure what harm could that do? now i time out every 2 min 9 secs while trying to upload the game

stumpy wallace · Post by **stumpy wallace** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:37 am

I m a genious! ! ! ok for future notices for peeps who might have the same problem change ur DMZ to ur IP adress and ur finished

Tynerion · Post by **Tynerion** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:40 am

Woot Stumpy! Congrats on fixing your problem.

Now I know who to call when I have problems..

Trekman · Post by **Trekman** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:52 am

stumpy wallace wrote:.....change ur DMZ to ur IP adress and ur finished

Grats for finding the reason - and I want to suggest a "version 2" of your fix

:

If you mention DMZ ("DeMilitarized Zone") I suppose you are using a firewall, either as software on your PC or in a Cable/DSL router.

Setting your PC into/as DMZ means to disable all firewall functions for any network traffic of your PC. Although that solves your AC problem it also "opens" your PC to the Internet as if no firewall is used at all.

After you have found out that ports blocked by the firewall were the cause of your AC problems you can implement a solution without opening *every* port, thus keeping most of the firewall protection :

1) Start the AC Konfiguration where you set 3D Settings and Connection Port

2) check that "I want to specify my port" is selected and enter a fixed port address above 1024, for instance 9000.

3) in your firewall disable DMZ and create a Port Forwarding Rule to pass UDP 9000-9013 to the internal IP address of your PC.

If you want to play AC from more than one PC in your local LAN you can repeat the above steps for those PCs with different port numbers.
For instance I use 9000-9013 for the main PC and 8000-8013 for the notebook (on my Linksys Cable Router).
Although for the Internet and AC I only use one IP address the router delivers the AC packets to the correct PC according to the different port ranges and I even can play on both simultaneously through an active firewall.

stumpy wallace · Post by **stumpy wallace** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 3:08 am

or to summerize

type in ur Ip adress then goto settings Virtual DMZ then change last 2 #'s to ur IP adress's last 2 #'s

Kfin · Post by **Kfin** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 3:57 am

stumpy i use dmz hosting and never have problems with pirates.
Then again i dont use my soc sec# or anything like tht on my computer so what would anyone see. Grats on ur trial and error those always seem the most satisfying once u have figured it out