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[joe]

I know this is kinda off topic, but do you know anything about battle.net? because I play warcraft III online and I'm having trouble hosting games, so if you know anything about it, but I'm not sure you'd play this sort of game.

it's just you're the guy who always helps us out in out troubles, so if you know nothing I will go find someone I don't know on some other forums to rescue me from my plight

[Nemesis]

I don't play online games, but that doesn't mean I can't try to help you! Are you getting any specific error messages? Where exactly do the problems occur?

[joe]

well it's just you can host custom games, but to do that you need to connect to the network or no-one can join them, and I have done a thing with a port number or something where you set it to a number between 6112 and 6119 in the game's options menu and I have told the windows firewall to allow exceptions for warcraft III, and I'm not sure what else might be impeding my gaming experience whatthat I need to bypass, but when I try to host a gmae I'm just left waiting for something to happen, so no error messages or hints that could help you out really...

[Nemesis]

Okay. Do you have any other firewalls / security programs installed (and running) on your computer? Also, in what manner do you connect to the Internet? Direct cable to your modem? Or are you using a router, wireless or not? Just say it when I get too technical!

[joe]

I use a belkin 54 g wireless router and as far as I can tell I don't have any other firewalls... but I do have avast antivirus, but that wouldn't stop anything would it?

[Nemesis]

No, but your router might! I'm not familiar with Belkin routers, so you'll have to dig up the manual for this one. The idea is that most routers have a kind of integrated firewall inside. These firewalls can block "game traffic"! You need to lookup how to give your game the necessary permissions. Sitecom routers (which I use) have a separate tab in their settings for that.
Too technical and your Internet modem isn't integrated into the router? Haul your computer to the modem and connect to it using a standard networking cable! It may be a bit radical, but that way you can find out immediately if your router is interfering. Good luck!

[joe]

k... I understood everything up to where you said "modem isn't intergrated into the router?" and after that it made no sense, but I will find a manual for my router and see what it says

[Nemesis]

Sorry. I knew I should have explained that part a little better even before I clicked the Post Reply button! Let's forget about it and try again. Please read the complete post before attempting anything!

I've done a bit of research and I believe this is what your network looks like.



Sometimes the modem and router are just one device ("the modem is integrated into the router"), which basically means that you have a modem with an antenna. You don't have such a device.
This is your router (or at least a model that looks like it).



Am I right so far? Please correct me if I'm absolutely wrong!
Now, this device is connected to your modem using the kind of cable you see below. I don't have a picture of your modem because I don't know the brand.



This is what I called the "standard networking cable".

So you're having problems hosting games... Let's bypass the router to see if it interferes in any way!
Take the cable running from the modem to the router. Unplug it at the back of the router. Go to your computer (assuming you have hauled it within cable's reach!) and locate the slot of the network card. Here's a picture to give you an idea what the slot should look like.



Plug the cable into the slot. The cable is now running directly from the modem to your computer. After the cable has been plugged into your computer the system should automatically detect the network. I can help you if it doesn't.
Start WoW or whatever other game you want to host. Does it work properly now? If so, then the problem was the router! If not, then we'll try something else...

[joe]

ah... it could be difficult getting my computer within the reach of the modem, but I could have a go.

also I have found the thing where you put the ip gateway or whatever it's called into the web browser and you come up with the router's setiings and stuff and found a thing where you can put blizzard's battle.net into the table and I try that with what I believe to be my ip address and it doesn't seem to save the new settings, but I'm not sure how it's supposed to look if it does, but I still cannot host the games, so I guess I'm dragging my computer downstairs... hi ho silver away!

and also it isn't WORLD of warcraft nemesis!!! not WORLD of warcraft! =p! *tantrum* world of warcraft is all rubbish! this is WARCRAFT III, which is much better.

well it is a real time strategy game which is tonnes more fun than massivly multiplayer online role playing games anyday! ANYDAY! like ghostmaster! I love that game ghostmaster.

end of jibber-jabber.



-and of course thanks so much for the diagrams and everything! it really does help a lot, as well as reminding me somewhat of blue peter.

[Nemesis]

LOL You're welcome! And sorry about mixing up those games!