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I have a Verizon DSL connection. I am new to being the one who has to maintain the net. We have the Verizon modem and plugged into it is a belkin router. I did not alter the configuration on either of the devices. We get a net connection, though I have issues joining any form of online game. Some refuse to connect, others are slow.
I have read that perhaps I need to use the modem in "bridge mode" to the wireless router? Would that fix my issues? Or do I just have to open ports or something similar. I really have no clue what could be the problem. Could someone advice me how to get this working?
Also some examples of symptoms. I am unable to traceroute past so many steps, Urban Terror says my ping is around 50ms but the game is very very laggy. Battle.net (through wine) will connect at my friends house, but not at my internet, it just crashes. Now any gamespy game I try to join says game session is no longer available.
What you probably need to set up is port forwarding in your router for the games. A lot of games use ports that need to be set up to forward to the computer playing the game. – MaQleod – 2010-11-21T00:51:54.347
Any guide to doing this? I set up a forwarded port for gamespy with no luck. Though it might have been because I only did it on the modem and not the router. Should I try bridge mode? – NightwishFan – 2010-11-21T01:24:56.883
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you need the port forwarded all the way through, modem and router, or if you do bridged mode on the modem, then it just needs to be set up in the router. You can try here for walk-throughs based on your hardware: http://portforward.com/
– MaQleod – 2010-11-21T01:34:08.217Setting up bridge mode just disables any access to the internet even if I set up the router. Port forwarding is too complicated or just simply does not help. I am going to try completely disabling my software firewall though I honestly doubt that will help any. I think this is just something that is designed to fail. – NightwishFan – 2010-11-21T04:35:13.243
Sorry to bump this again. I think I figured it out, but still have no idea how to proceed. Apparently my router needs ports forwarded? Why do some routers seem to "just work" with any game even though I have not manually forwarded ports? – NightwishFan – 2010-11-21T15:01:45.517