networking - Can't connect to a game over remote LAN
2014-07
Jean Carlos Suárez Marranzini
First of all I want to say that I'm not entirely sure if this question can be asked here. If it can't, then please tell me and I will delete it.
There's this game called Killing Floor, which can be played Co-op over LAN. I'm hosting the game, and we downloaded Hamachi to emulate the LAN connection. But one of my friends is not able to connect at all. I think it could be a ports problem, but unfortunately his router doesn't provide port forwarding features in its software. How can we troubleshoot this or workaround the issue?
The ports needed are: 7707 UDP/IP (Game Port) 7708 UDP/IP (Query Port) 7717 UDP/IP (GameSpy Query Port) 28852 TCP/IP and UDP (Allows your Server to Connect to the Master Server Browser)
Is there a way to troubleshoot a connection to see if it really is a ports problem? Or to force it? Maybe another way to connect more freely? Any kind of help will be appreciated.
Mike
For the past week or so, my internet connection has been anything but stable. Restarting my modem/router always fixes the problems, but since it has occurred so often, I'm noticing confusing patterns which I was hoping someone could help answer.
My internet connection kicks out about 4-5 times a day. The sure-fire way to fix it is to restart my all-in-one modem/router. Sometimes I can diagnose the problem on my laptop which resets my wireless network adapter and fixes the problem, but not always. If that doesn't fix the problem, it usually reports that the connection between the modem and internet is the problem which requires a restart of the router.
The odd thing which baffles me is that my connection is supposedly lost such that no browsers can connect to sites, yet things like online games still continue to play without issue. How is this possible? I thought maybe the game was running locally on my PC but that couldn't be the answer because I was still getting messages from other players.
So my real question is: How can my internet browsers (firefox, chrome, even IE) lose connection to the internet, but other applications like online games not? Am I actually losing connection or am I mistaken?
I'd also like to add that netflix on my PS3 which is directly connected to the same access point will also lose connection. So internet browsers and netflix lose their internet connection while online games continue without an issue.
Musa
It might be a DNS issue, before you go to a website the browser has to do a ip lookup to find the ip address of the domain website. With online games they usually connect to the game server using the ip address of the server so no lookup is needed.