Valkyrie problem

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Hi,

I just tryed to get onto Vnet tonight with all of the new EU2 patchs.
I get 57 trys to find a channel and then it says there is some kind of internet problem.

I am running Win98se, i have no firewall,
I am with a cable company in America with a 512k cable. The cable company says they are not a NAT but they are something like that and i do not have an individual IP. It would cost bigbucks (i asked) to get a personnal IP address so hopefully that is not the problem.

I do have a brand new Printer/Fax/Scanner thing from Canon, although i did take its file out of the startup directory.

Any ideas? please? Thoughts? Help!

Mike

 

[JohnMK]

I'm sorry to report but you need a static IP address. They are indeed using a NAT regardless of what they say. By the way, how much money are we talking about? I pay an extra $15 to lease 6 static IPs.

 

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fix

Hi all,

Actually, the IP address did not matter....

I had a sygate firewall that i THOUGHT i had completely disabled a while back, but
seemingly it was still running. I just deleted it and voila i am on Valkyrie!

I played for quite a while today, it was fun but i wish more people had been there. We had ZERO connection problems
so i was very impressed with the MP stability fixes!

Mike 'please show up at Valkyrie' Johnson

quote for today:

interviewer:
"That said, do you have any ideas for a really scary reality TV show?"

Kurt Vonnegut:
'C students from Yale.' It would stand your hair on end.

 

[Prince Eugene]

Originally posted by JohnMK
I'm sorry to report but you need a static IP address. They are indeed using a NAT regardless of what they say. By the way, how much money are we talking about? I pay an extra $15 to lease 6 static IPs.

It depends.... I don't have an individual IP and play MP fine. You only need one to host. With my ISP it costs 115$ a month for ONE static IP.

 

[JohnMK]

It's a rule of thumb. Sure in super special circumstances you can avoid it IF you can negotiate with them to allow the passthrough of incoming Directplay TCP connections. But most of them will not do that for you so you're stuck needing a real IP.