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Computer settings that won't allow hosting games?

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SkylineSC United States564 Posts January 13 2010 16:14 GMT #1 I use to be able to host games no problem when I'm at using school's internet. brought the PC back home, and I can't make games... I messed with the ports and still no. whatever, but then I took my computer back to school, and I can't make games either. Ports are all open in both cases, and I use to be able to make games when I'm at school but now I can't. I never had to mess with the internet before at all. I use portchecker and the ports are all good to go. are there any computer related settings that I could have changed unknowingly that is causing my issues???

djcube United States985 Posts January 13 2010 16:21 GMT #2 By hosting games, I assume you mean other people can't join your games, right? Did you change the rank limit settings at all on iccup? If you did, /r l 0 0 sets the rank limit back to default.

Kerotan England2111 Posts January 13 2010 16:22 GMT #3 What I had to do to get hosting games to work is to create a service on my PC which si something which isn't covered by most port forwarding help.

DivinO United States4796 Posts January 13 2010 16:37 GMT #4 Is this LAN or Online? EDIT: I'm a lurker!

RebirthOfLeGenD USA5860 Posts January 13 2010 16:38 GMT #5 Try changing the firewall setting I would imagine? I can't really think of anything else. I know on vista unless I hit run as administrator I can't even get on battle.net. Try going into windows firewall setting and disabling it then see if you can host. If you can then re enable the firewall and allow starcraft access through it.

SkylineSC United States564 Posts January 13 2010 16:39 GMT #6 i think by changing the rank limit from min:2000 max:2000 to something reasonable, i was able to fix it. feel like an idiot. i thought the thing reset it self each log-in so I never bother to see what I had set it on. QQ

Mortician Bulgaria2332 Posts January 13 2010 17:29 GMT #7 Bnet has some problems with dynamic IPs, I believe

citi.zen 2509 Posts January 13 2010 18:31 GMT #8 Are you using a router? Port forwarding is an issue with bnet... I hate that crap.

CharlieMurphy United States22895 Posts January 14 2010 20:39 GMT #9 There is a way to fix this but it takes a lot of time, dedication, and internet research. I fixed some issues by updating my routers firmware among other things. I still can't do anything from work comps where it doesn't lag to hell.

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