Here I adress 2 factors,
1, the fact that It is difficult to log in to fakeserver to play your online games,
And
2, When you host a game people cannot see them.
So please bear with me and read the "article" throughly
Heres the "article"
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These are the same basic directions You would use to Allow your self to Host any game,
but You would need to know which ports that particular game uses,
These are 2 ports that shogun uses,
8793
AND
18321
It use them For hosting games, and receving UDP's That allow you to see other hosted games,
these 2 ports are always used, So you can open them but id advize you only leave them open for Shogun.
However fake server is begining to puzzle me,
it accepts incoming ports from almost any range,
and every time some 1 logs in the port number changes,
I.e
I log in to fake server and it registers,
My-ip.adress:1200
then trish would log in.
and it would register,
Trish-ip.adress:1201
then some 1 els would log in
and it would use,
There-ip.adress:1202
And so on.
So there is No 1 port number i can give out that will guarantee you a place on fake server,
Infact,
If i told people to open port
1205
This would not neciseraly guarantee that you could connect as that port may not be the one shogun has now decided to use.
But also, Fakeserver dosent always let people log on 1st attempt,
even if shogun is attempting to connect on an unused and open port,
So unfortunatly The only thing i can tell people to do Is just try again untill it does eventualy log on,
Some times it will be 1st time,
for most it will be some where between 1 in 3 and 1 in 7 attempts will connect,
Others may find it even more difficult.
As for hosting games behind a router,
It seems even with the correct ports open.
People cannot host a game sucsessfuly,
This is becous your router conects to the interenet and you then connect to it,
So people only see your routers ip adress and not Your pc's ip adress
I.e
you router registers you on to the internet. and its Ip adress is,
11.11.111.111
and your real ip adress for your pc is
11.22.121.221
The game then registers you on to fakeserver as,
11.11.111.111
When it should register you as
11.22.121.221
So people then cannot see your game,
Heres the deal in more precice detail
When you host a game, other joining players need to be able to connect to your Pc, but when the incoming connection request reaches your router, your router does not know which pc it should forward the request to, so instead it just ignores the request. This is what is happening when other players are unable to join your hosted games.
But dont worry You can Fix this,
The solution is to configure your router to do port forwarding/port mapping. This tells the router to forward requests from certain games directly to your pc's local/private IP address
You should check The documents that came with your router.
As this would tell you how to set up port forwarding correctly for your device,
Your device will be difrent from the next persons device,
so I cant really tell you how to set up yours, But your documentation can.
However, If you dont know where your documentation is.
I can send you to this web page which will help you set up port forwarding,
This Is how you would configure any Game. so people can see your Hosted games,
Remember,
here we are trying to allow SHOGUN to forward the ports, 8793 and 18321, To YOUR pc's local address. "dont say allow all programs to forward to these ports as that could compromize your system security"
this page will dislpay your local adress, and help you configure a multitude of Firewalls and routers to forward the ports needed from your router to your pc,
http://portforward.com/routers.htm
This is the only way people behind a router can host games, and allow people to see them,
Im sorry about the fake server login problem's But really There is nothing we can do about it,
The thing is just Annoying,
P.s
You could tell your router to forward ALL ports that shogun tries to send or receve data on, (port 1 to port 9999) or port range 1-9999
(DO NOT tell it to allow ALL programs to forward ports as this could also comprimise your computers security, But allowing SHOGUN To forward things would Just allow Shogun to do so And there for is safe to do.)
This would guarantee shogun game hosting capabilaties to you,
and could help you log on to fake server slightly faster
"but fake server will still probably take multiple log in attempts to connect"
Thank you for your time,
and I hope this helps you host your online games "not only shogun"
ShambleS
EDIT
this is a link to SpeedTouch. 580 wireless router configuration details,
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/hardware...edtouch580.asp
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