mp problems

[Laffertytig]

tried to play a MP game last night with 5 other guys. we met in vnet and even though we all tried to host a game, noone could join which i havent seen happen before. everyone had their routers and firewalls turned off so dont think that was the problem.

we then tried using hamachi. one guys took an age to get into the game using the hosts ip addy but he eventually got in. however the game ctd'd after an hour and when we all tried to connect again i had the problems this time.

i just couldnt connect to the game no matter what i did. eventually i got on when someone else hosted but it was painfully slow. i had both my zonealarm and windows firewalls turned off so that cant be why i was having problems. ive never had this problem before playin MP paradox game or any other for that matter.

is there something i have to do to my pc, ie opening ports etc?

 

[Lothos]

If you have your router turned off then how are they accessing the web? hehe

What version are you playing?

What patches have you applied?

Are you playing with any mods?

 

[Laffertytig]

i wasnt me who had the router (ive never had one) but the other guys said they had it switched off???

we were playin with AM with latest patch (1.1) and no mods.

on vnet none of us could connect to anyone else. we then tried it with ip address and once again we couldnt connect.

it only when we used hamachi we had some success. only one of the guys had probs connecttin but he eventually got it. after the ctd i was the one who couldnt connect while everyone else could.

it was only after someone else hosted that i got in. any ideas why this would be? we're playin again this sunday so wouldnt mind tryin to get this sorted

 

[Laffertytig]

im tryin to follow the instructions in the sticky above about forwarding ports but im stuck at step 3. when i enter my ip into my browser window it doesnt take me to my modem setting. what am i doin wrong?