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unmerged(26252) · 2004-07-30T12:49:57+00:00

Dear All: I would be grateful for any help you can offer. I have posted this request for assistance in the MP forum as well. I'm new to MP and V.Net has been down, so for my maiden voyage, I have been trying to join through the internet option in the MP interface. My computer is unable to find the game. I'm using 1.4 GHz Athlon Windows XP Norton Antivirus 2003 (disabled during attempted MP connection) All other programs are pretty vanilla DirecWay 2-way satellite internet connection XP software firewall is off In the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties menu of my DirecWay connection, specific IP addresses and a subnet mask are selected, as is a preferred DNS server. These are the way the program was set up, I've changed nothing. Don't know whether my connection would work without them. "Enable LMHosts lookup" is enabled (Have no idea if it's relevant) In the NetBIOS setting, "Default" is selected (have no idea if it's relevant) In TCP/IP Filtering: 1) "Enable TCP/IP Filtering (All adapters)" is NOT enabled. 2) "Permit All" IS selected for each of TCP, UDP, and IP ports and protocols "Enable IEEE 802.1x authentication for this network" is currently enabled, though I've tried with this NOT enabled and also had no luck. That's all I can think to tell you about my settings. A word on DirecWay, this is a highspeed 2-way satellite connection. I have had no trouble logging on to internet game servers of, for example, Starcraft, but recognize that HOI is a horse of a different color. DirecWay's Achilles' Heel is the latency caused by the time required to beam signals into space and then beam them back down. Theoretically, I could use a "terrestrial" setting, which would allow me highspeed satellite downloads but traditional dial up modem speed uploads. I haven't tried "terrestrial" mode, b/c this would require me to subscribe to a traditional dial up service in addition to DirecWay, and until I'm convinced this would solve my problem, would like to avoid the extra $20/month expenditure. I also understand that DirecWay uses a NAT and firewall, but those are in DirecWay's control, and I doubt that I have any ability to influence those settings or disable their application. Any thoughts or help you can offer would be GREATLY appreciated. Your Servant, - azstarbird

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Start date Jul 30, 2004

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Cross posting is against board policy.
So since the MP forum is more apropriate for this question I will close this thread.
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