Port forwarding problem

[TeemuL]

Greetings,

I have been trying to make multiplayer work. I have read the guide that is available in the multiplayer section. I have forwarded my ports with a router specific guide I found from www.portforward.com. I also have now a static ip address as was adviced. I changed my ip address to statistic in the netword settings. I followed the guide in http://www.portforward.com/networking/static-vista.htm.

My router model is Netgear WGR614v7. I went to the internet interface of the router and in the port forward/trigger settings I forwarded ports 2300-2400, 28800-29000 and 47400-47700. I used TCP service type. I found those numbers from this forum. I also temporarily disabled the UPnP thing, but it didn't help.

I have allowed the game in a software firewall as well, by adding the game to the allowed programs.
As I have also a static ip address at the moment, I think I have then done everything that is adviced, so I don't know what to do. When I tried to connect a multiplayer game with the same game version as I have(Doomsday 1.3a) it said that I have a different version than the host. I have previously read that if I have such a message then it's a connection problem and then I should forward my ports. However there was only one hosted game so I couldn't try joining several games.

My current computer set up is the following. I have a Motorola cable modem which is connected to my wireless router(WGR614v7). The router is then connected to a total of 4 computers, 1 wirelessly and 3 with a cable. I'm trying to make multiplayer work with one of those cable connected computers. I have Windows Vista in that computer. Should I do something with the Motorola modem?


I would greatly appreciate any help as I would really love to play this game online. I have played in LAN and I have really enjoyed that.

I have previously posted this in the tech support but didn't get a single answer so I post it here now.

Best wishes,

Teemu

 

[son of liberty]

When I was settimg up my router, I realized that the set up post missed a step. I will try to remember what the step was, I will go back and reread it. If I remember what was left out, I will let you know. It is very minor, they probably overlooked assuming we would know, but it was vital to getting the system working.

 

[TeemuL]

Please tell what that missing step was, but I was using the guide in www.portforwarding.com and just looked the port numbers from here. However the guide I used wasn't specially for Hoi so of course there might have been something I should have done different for Hoi to work.

 

[unmerged(107302)]

I'm having problems similar to TeemuL and I used the portforward.com as well. How did you guys figure it out?

 

[I am.]

For me the problem was my firewall... it would not allow other players in...
so do check that

 

[TeemuL]

I have actually already solved my problem.

I just had to keep the game open, or I'm not sure if it is necessary to even host a game, and then the port appeared open when I tested it. So I think the problem was that after forwarding my ports I didn't try playing, but I tried testing if the ports were open.

I didn't even have to turn my firewall off.