Cant get Clients

[whiz_kid06]

For a start i never get registered with ase but that doesnt atter that much however i told my friends the ip and port but whenever they try to connect they always get disconnected for connection timed out. I use a 600k broadband modem but i am starting to think that it is too slow. I have had severs up before for other games specificaly sof2. Please tell me what to do. I only want to play with my clan members and i dont want to rent a sever

[MAD_BOY]

turn firewall off, forward ports in router, etc.

[whiz_kid06]

What do you mean by forward ports. Ive turned the firewall off in my router and i dont have a windows router.

[whiz_kid06]

i meant windows firewall lol

[MAD_BOY]

forwarding ports: (damn, how to explain that) well....read the routers manual?

[whiz_kid06]

Is it a router setting could you at least explain what it means please it might help me a bit when i cahnge the setting

[Oli]

well usually routers hide ports from the computers connected to them, hence making every connection passive, however on almost every router you can forward a specific set of ports to the computer which you need to hence making the computer have no protection by the router on those ports. Most likely you need to forward the ones from your router, the ports being the ones you are using for MTA (ie 2003 for client and 2002 for admin).

To forward the ports you have to go onto the routers settings. This is usually located at something like http://192.168.0.1 or what ever the default gateway address of your router is. It should be fairly obvious how to do it form there.

[whiz_kid06]

i just dont kow how to do it because i dont know what it means. I looked in the manual it said nothing on forwarding ports. Please explain to me how i might do it.

[Oli]

whats the make and model of your router?

[whiz_kid06]

i think i might have done it let me just try and get my server working

[whiz_kid06]

i need to refrsh more often.

My router is a d-link di-604

[whiz_kid06]

no it strill doesnt god damn work. I used a thing called a virtual server thats what the manual said to do but it doesnt work. I want my server to work on port 2003. i typed in public: 2003 private:2003

[Oli]

ok here is a step by step way of forwarding ports on that specific router:

- open Internet Explorer or your equivelant web browser.

- go to this address: http://192.168.0.1

- go to the advanced tab

- go to applications on the left hand side

- click enable at the top

- for name put: MTA

- for trigger port put 2003 - 2003

- for WAN port put: 2003

- leave the types on TCP

- click apply

If this fails to work then experiment with the feature... try using UDP for example.

The manual for this router can be found here

[Dgtadude]

is that a router or a hub ?

if it is a router .. is it pretty old ?

[whiz_kid06]

No it still doesnt work. I followed your instructions and i basically got the idea but there was only the following feilds what is on the right it what i entered.

Name - Mta

Trigger port ####-#### - 2003-2003

triger type - tcp

Public ports ##################### (i didnt know what to put)

Public type- tcp

there want anyting about wan

[whiz_kid06]

its not old i bought it a couple of months ago. thats all

[tbot]

The types should be UDP, not TCP...