Trouble With Hosting IN MP

[Porter Trill]

hey there,

Me and my roomate have a cable connection and a router so we can both be online, and neither one of us can host a game in total war multiplayer. Is there a way around this?
Can we disable something on the router? does anyone know how the LAN games work? what do we need to do for that? can we simply run a CAT 5 network cable between our 2 ethernet ports and will it work? or is there some kind of elaborate setup?

[Gregoshi]

Hi http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif Porter. We don't get too many LAN questions. I did a search in the Apothecary and came up with these:

Not exactly what you want but may be of interest (http://www.totalwar.org/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=2;t=8035;hl=lan+and+game)

General home networking info (http://www.totalwar.org/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=2;t=1556;hl=lan+and+mp)

This one suggests firewall may be problem (http://www.totalwar.org/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=2;t=1882;hl=lan+and+mp)

That is all I could find. Hopefully a real expert will come along.

[Puzz3D]

Porter Trill,

The router will stop you from hosting internet games, but you can still join games hosted by someone else. You should be able to play LAN games with your current setup by going to the multiplayer/LAN menu option in the game and having one machine host. The other machine should see the hosted game through that multiplayer/LAN option. The only requirement is that tcp/ip protocol is installed (which it will be since the machines are on the internet), and that the two machines have an ip address in the same subnet. That is the first three numbers of the ip address are the same. The last number in the set of four would be different since it identifies a particular machine. You can check that by running winipcfg in the run box. The router should have already given ip addresses in the same subnet to the two machines via DHCP if you have the machines set for dynamic ip address in the network control panel properties for tcp/ip.

[Porter Trill]

you know what's really weird? my roomate who is off of the hub CAN host games, and i can join his games, so we can play. But for some reason, I can't host games. I dont' have a firewall or anything on my system. Doesnt make any sense.

[Puzz3D]

Porter Trill,

I thought you said it was a router, and I assume there is a built in hub on it. If your roomate is bypassing the router/hub, that's why he can host. However, that puts his machine outside the router and your machine inside the router, and you cannot play LAN games that way. If you hook the two machines together with a CAT-5 cable, I believe it has to be a crossover cable and not a straight through cable. If going through a hub, use regular straight through CAT-5 cables.