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FabledIntegral
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States9232 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-28 22:29:29
October 28 2009 07:05 GMT
#1
So everyone has problems hosting their own games. I'm over that - I figured I can't host my own games unless I get a static IP and forward ports, which when I did last time it permanently fucked up OTHER people's internet connections in my network for gaming (although they had perfect internet access, they couldn't connect to any other people for GAMING).

Well, suddenly this has happened to me, but I have no idea what would have triggered it. Currently when I want to play Starcraft, I can ONLY play 1v1 games. THis is because I can only connect to the host. Every other person in the lobby will have two green bars. It's driving me crazy, I have no idea why this happened suddenly.

Forwarding ports is useless I've been told unless you have a static IP, and plenty of people can play with dynamic IPs, so I'm guessing it doesn't have much to do with that. I have a direct landline connection to my router via ethernet cable. I'm not computer savy whatsoever, but if someone feels like they would like to offer advice I'd love some.

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EDIT: BGH was just an example as a I needed ot find a game with multiple ppl so I just logged on west. I'ts not usually a problem because I typically only play 1v1 on iccup (and as you see in that picture I can connect to the host).

Regards,

FabledIntegral

JohnColtrane
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Australia4813 Posts
October 28 2009 07:35 GMT
#2
whats bad about 2 green bars? i thought 2 green was good
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SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
October 28 2009 08:36 GMT
#3
yeah i know.

im usually like 5 red on iccup.
lokiM
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3407 Posts
October 28 2009 09:35 GMT
#4
don't base anything off of lobby lag, and 2 green bars is good regardless..
You can't fight the feeling.
[DUF]MethodMan
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Germany1716 Posts
October 28 2009 10:31 GMT
#5
well if just some people in a game have 2 green bars to you its good.
but if everyone but the host has 2 green bars, you can probably not see what they type.
and when you start the game it will lag horribly while in the real game you either drop or mass lag will continue.
alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
October 28 2009 11:08 GMT
#6
lol 2 green bars is great
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Snet *
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States3573 Posts
October 28 2009 11:17 GMT
#7
You must have a godlike internet connection to be strung up over 2 green bars.
Shauni
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
4077 Posts
October 28 2009 11:46 GMT
#8
2 green bars is sometimes port failure resulting in huge lag. It's probably what he wanted to show with the screen. Anyway, you are misinformed about the fact that only people with static ip can port forward. You or the guy who informed you probably mixed it up with the internal ip, which is always static if you have a router.
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jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5502 Posts
October 28 2009 14:29 GMT
#9
Yeah you dont need a static IP. Just open the ports in your router to whatever ip you have
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Starparty
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Sweden1963 Posts
October 28 2009 14:40 GMT
#10
Bgh has so much money its bound to lag. Its the obvious answer to the problem imo
The artist formerly known as Starparty
Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
October 28 2009 16:13 GMT
#11
lol ppl saying green bars are good. the only good is when u have nothing
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Ranix
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States666 Posts
October 28 2009 16:50 GMT
#12
green bars are good.
Legends never gg
DarkShadowz
Profile Joined December 2008
Sweden321 Posts
October 28 2009 17:04 GMT
#13
green bars in game like that is NOT good. It's when you try to JOIN a game it's good. It's a difference there and I tihnk most of you have it mixed up.
gumbum8
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States721 Posts
October 28 2009 17:20 GMT
#14
you now feel my pain
if you find a solution,
lmk plz
but really, has anyone REALLY been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
October 28 2009 17:28 GMT
#15
On October 28 2009 23:29 jimminy_kriket wrote:
Yeah you dont need a static IP. Just open the ports in your router to whatever ip you have

If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
rredtooth
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
5459 Posts
October 28 2009 17:53 GMT
#16
i don't get it. he doesn't have any green bars in that picture. doesn't that mean he has the best connection? the green bars of others don't have any bearing on his connection right?
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biomedical
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
235 Posts
October 28 2009 19:02 GMT
#17
confused...
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FabledIntegral
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States9232 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-28 22:27:20
October 28 2009 22:24 GMT
#18
... 90% of the time (in my history of playing SC for the last 2-3 years) 2 green bars means you can NOT connect to the other person.

It was hte same if you had a 30 green ping in age of empires II. It's meaning you're not connecting to the other person.

As soon as the game starts, every other player besides me drops, effectively ending the game for me. I can not see the other people's chat mots of the time either.

On October 29 2009 02:53 redtooth wrote:
i don't get it. he doesn't have any green bars in that picture. doesn't that mean he has the best connection? the green bars of others don't have any bearing on his connection right?


It does. .

I just can't play SC anymore, don't know what happened, and my ports ARE forwarded although I did read on multiple websites that port forwarding doesn't do anything unless you have a static IP address .
jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5502 Posts
October 28 2009 22:49 GMT
#19
Nah it just helps sometimes to have a static IP. Most routers now days keep track of which computer gets assigned which IP address and tries to keep the same pc on the same ip, i think anyways.

And fyi incase your confused there are 2 ip's. one is your internal one - the one that helps to be static. It is the ip that is assigned to your specific computer by your router. The other is your external which you dont need to worry about. Its the IP assigned to your household by your ISP, they are almost always dynamic.

You should type ipconfig into CMD and screenshot that and your router configuration so we can see if you've got everything set up right.
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doktorLucifer
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States855 Posts
October 28 2009 23:00 GMT
#20
What kind of router firmware do you have? It might help to look for a setting labeled "block all incoming anonymous connections" and make sure it's unticked.

My router had that setting switched on, and I couldn't figure out just WHHHYYY I couldn't stay in game longer than 10 seconds before getting dropped. -_-
FabledIntegral
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States9232 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-29 19:29:25
October 29 2009 19:28 GMT
#21

ipconfig
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basic router settings (i think?)
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FabledIntegral
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States9232 Posts
October 31 2009 00:09 GMT
#22
Haha I found out what was wrong. Due to the advice recommended, I took SS and posted that stuff. Then I realized that it said my local IP was 192.168.1.1 from router but otherwise from IPConfig it said 192.168.1.01. Fixed itttt. I can play nowww. Thanks.
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