Connection Timeout

[Guest]

I am trying to play my brother through a LAN, but when he creates the server and I try to connect to it, it times out after 10 seconds. So I in turn attempt to create a server for him to join, and it ends up timing him out although I can join the game I created.

I have considered that it could be a NAT/proxy issue, since both my brother and I connect to the internet through a single router. But I really have to wonder, because I can play Battlefield 1942 on a LAN just fine, I don't have to turn off firewalls or anything.

Hope someone can help. Thanks

[Jani]

Make sure you've applied the server patch.

[zerb]

Follow the directions on the download 0.5 page to find the patch.

[Guest]

I neglected to mention that both my brother and I had installed the Server Patch and we are still getting 10 second connection timeout errors whenever we try to play each other over a LAN. (Connections to an established, listed server is no problem...it's the LAN that's really driving me mad...)

Sorry.

[Jani]

Ok so do you have firewalls blocking anything over LAN? Also you may want to enable things like ICMP Echo in your firewall over LAN if you can.

Ps you are trying to connect to his LAN ip, not Internet ip right?

[Guest]

I managed to fix it...all that I had to do was specify an IP address for each computer, and then use the IP address that I specified, not what MTA suggested to for the connection. I didn't have to screw with my router or firewall...just needed the right IP address.

Thanks for the help.