Im trying to play a game with my brother who lives 2,000 miles from me. Whenever he or I make a game and the other tries to log in, we get a window that says something about being behind a firewall or some such crap. We have both disabled firewalls for NWN2 and yet still get this. How the heck can we get this to work? (I have platinum edition and he has gold edition) I read about opeing and ports and yada yada, well, neither of us are good with PCs and this is just pissing us off and making us want to return the damn game!
I have read all over the place that people have been having issues with this. Why the hell can BioWare not fix this ridiculous issue? Why make it so damn hard for anyone to get on and play with another player?? It makes no sense. Every other game we have ever played over the net together has never needed this, why would this one? This makes absolutely no sense and BioWare needs to fix it, ASAP.
-Disgruntled player.
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Posté 29 octobre 2011 - 04:08
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Bioware didn't make nwn2. Also, did you try the answer in the FAQ. social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/158/index/3116296#6240537Remenents wrote...
Im trying to play a game with my brother who lives 2,000 miles from me. Whenever he or I make a game and the other tries to log in, we get a window that says something about being behind a firewall or some such crap. We have both disabled firewalls for NWN2 and yet still get this. How the heck can we get this to work? (I have platinum edition and he has gold edition) I read about opeing and ports and yada yada, well, neither of us are good with PCs and this is just pissing us off and making us want to return the damn game!
I have read all over the place that people have been having issues with this. Why the hell can BioWare not fix this ridiculous issue? Why make it so damn hard for anyone to get on and play with another player?? It makes no sense. Every other game we have ever played over the net together has never needed this, why would this one? This makes absolutely no sense and BioWare needs to fix it, ASAP.
-Disgruntled player.
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Posté 29 octobre 2011 - 04:13
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I've tried everything. Im really annoyed with all of this. I cant figure out how to get it to work and its driving us nuts. 
Also, what is this port stuff?? 5121? And then its saying something about "how you set your router up"... I never set up my router. It was set up for me.
Also, what is this port stuff?? 5121? And then its saying something about "how you set your router up"... I never set up my router. It was set up for me.
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Posté 29 octobre 2011 - 04:15
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Did you try what is listed in the FAQ, specifically? "I tried everything" does not answer the yes/no question of whether you tried the answer from the FAQ.Remenents wrote...
I've tried everything.
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Posté 29 octobre 2011 - 04:17
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Its hard to try this stuff when you dont know how. I tried everything I knew how to try.
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Posté 29 octobre 2011 - 04:19
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Step 8 in the FAQ doesnt help because my firewall is totally different set up. The steps dont work for mine.
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Posté 29 octobre 2011 - 04:46
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Routers are all configured differently. You can go to http://portforward.com/ and will almost assuredly find a guide specifically for your router.
Step 8 is instructions for the Windows firewall. Please provide information on what firewall you are using.
While I understand you are frustrated, I and anyone else who chimes in is trying to help. Without specific information, we are unable to do so.
Step 8 is instructions for the Windows firewall. Please provide information on what firewall you are using.
While I understand you are frustrated, I and anyone else who chimes in is trying to help. Without specific information, we are unable to do so.
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Posté 02 novembre 2011 - 08:32
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I cannot help with specifics, as i have no idea how your router works, or what you are dealing with, but i can attempt to give you some context soas to help you figure out things yourself. http://portforward.com/ will have very specific instructions, but you need to know the NWN2 ports to set it up properly. I have more specifics listed on http://nwn2.wikia.co...i/Starting_a_PW - but it's impossible to provide a step by step guide for every router as there are hundreds of them.
There are generally two issues, "port forwarding" and "firewall". Often setting up the port forward will set up the the allow rule in the firewall. Generally there is a firewall on both your router and your actual computer. Fire wall is easy, you figure out which ips and ports you want to allow and enter those as needed until it works.
The port forwarding is more complex.
A router does the job of allowing you to have a lot of computers behind a single address, this is true no matter how many computers you have where you live. While you might just have a single computer, the router has no idea if that is the case, and needs to be told where locally your system is.
To do this is uses Port Forwarding rules.
Now lets make some assumptions, your computer and router have ip addresses, both on the internet ( public ), and internally on your LAN ( local )
I am for simplicity give example numbers, please look up your actual numbers and use those instead.
Your public ip address lets say is 99.99.99.99
Lets say your buddy has the ip address of 88.88.88.88 and you don't need to know any more than that.
A router ususally has the ip address of 192.168.1.1, this is generally the same address as they have you use to configure your router. This is called the gate way address. This means your router has the two address 99.99.99.99 and 192.168.1.1 depending on which side of the network you are on, either public or local.
Now your computer will have a ip address assigned to it. Generally all the devices ( WII, Xbox, laptops, etc ) will each have their own ip address. I am going to say for example your ip address is 192.168.1.99. ( you run the dos command "IPconfig /all" without quotes to get this info )
The router when you send a message out, keeps track that it came from 192.168.1.99, it goes out to 88.88.88.88, and then 88.88.88.88 sends a message back containing whatever you requested, it then routes it back to 192.168.1.99.
But if you are outside the router needs to know where to send request internally when it's not known. If it does not know it just ignores it.
So what you do is figure out the port is being used ( ports are specific channels on your ip address ). You set up a rule that translates or routes any traffic from outside your network hitting port 5121, and have your router send such traffic to 192.168.1.99.
Generally it looks like
port 5121
Send to
ip: 192.168.1.99 ( which is your computers ip )
port: 5121
There is a more lengthy description http://nwn2.wikia.co...i/Starting_a_PW on how to do this, and the port forward site is generally needed to figure out your router.
There are generally two issues, "port forwarding" and "firewall". Often setting up the port forward will set up the the allow rule in the firewall. Generally there is a firewall on both your router and your actual computer. Fire wall is easy, you figure out which ips and ports you want to allow and enter those as needed until it works.
The port forwarding is more complex.
A router does the job of allowing you to have a lot of computers behind a single address, this is true no matter how many computers you have where you live. While you might just have a single computer, the router has no idea if that is the case, and needs to be told where locally your system is.
To do this is uses Port Forwarding rules.
Now lets make some assumptions, your computer and router have ip addresses, both on the internet ( public ), and internally on your LAN ( local )
I am for simplicity give example numbers, please look up your actual numbers and use those instead.
Your public ip address lets say is 99.99.99.99
Lets say your buddy has the ip address of 88.88.88.88 and you don't need to know any more than that.
A router ususally has the ip address of 192.168.1.1, this is generally the same address as they have you use to configure your router. This is called the gate way address. This means your router has the two address 99.99.99.99 and 192.168.1.1 depending on which side of the network you are on, either public or local.
Now your computer will have a ip address assigned to it. Generally all the devices ( WII, Xbox, laptops, etc ) will each have their own ip address. I am going to say for example your ip address is 192.168.1.99. ( you run the dos command "IPconfig /all" without quotes to get this info )
The router when you send a message out, keeps track that it came from 192.168.1.99, it goes out to 88.88.88.88, and then 88.88.88.88 sends a message back containing whatever you requested, it then routes it back to 192.168.1.99.
But if you are outside the router needs to know where to send request internally when it's not known. If it does not know it just ignores it.
So what you do is figure out the port is being used ( ports are specific channels on your ip address ). You set up a rule that translates or routes any traffic from outside your network hitting port 5121, and have your router send such traffic to 192.168.1.99.
Generally it looks like
port 5121
Send to
ip: 192.168.1.99 ( which is your computers ip )
port: 5121
There is a more lengthy description http://nwn2.wikia.co...i/Starting_a_PW on how to do this, and the port forward site is generally needed to figure out your router.
Modifié par painofdungeoneternal, 02 novembre 2011 - 08:33 .
