Alright, Tl.net, i need help.

I was helping a friend out, who had that infamous latency problem while getting people to join his sc games.
Well, i tried to open up his ports, but still people wouldn't join.
So, i resetted his router, expecting everything to work.
The computers can't even connect to the internet now.

It's a siemens router.
Help?

Argh, i try to make his gaming experience better, but i screw up his whole internet. I'm so embarrassed

EvilTeletubby

Baltimore, USA22258 Posts

October 16 2006 10:16 GMT

All you did was change his SSID and encryption back to their defaults. All you need to do is simply setup the wireless network again.

Most routers by default have NO encryption, which means any wireless computer can simply join and configure them.

You want to...

1) Have any wireless computer look for the default SSID (network name) and join it (note: if it's encrypted, you'll want to use a direct ethernet connection)

2) Bring up the router utility page; it's usually 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 (just type it into IE)

3) You'll probably have to put in a default username//password, look up his particular model on this page.

4) Navigate the utility and setup his network again, making sure to encrypt it, and write down the WEP key. Then go to each computer that you ~~fucked up~~ disconnected, and rejoin the new network and enter the WEP key.

Edit - And can't really help you with the original problem you were trying to fix, I don't really even know exactly how the workaround for that works.

miNi

Korea (South)2010 Posts

October 16 2006 10:33 GMT

This isn't a wireless connection by the way, but i know what you're getting at.

"Set up his network again" just how?

EDIT: I can enter his router configuration page, but i just don't know how to set it up again.

mAKiTO

Colombia4171 Posts

October 16 2006 10:40 GMT

2) Bring up the router utility page; it's usually 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1

go from there

type the username and pass

and start selecting the setting that you want

miNi

Korea (South)2010 Posts

October 16 2006 10:45 GMT

my router page is 192.168.254.254
from there, i just cant seem to find where to start the thing.

Alborz

Canada1551 Posts

October 16 2006 10:46 GMT

try reseting the router to factory defaults; to do this hold down the "reset" button on your router for about 30 seconds or more. atleast thats how most linksys routers work.

miNi

Korea (South)2010 Posts

October 16 2006 10:50 GMT

i resetted it, but that's what caused the problem in the first place.
-_-;;

Mr_Pink

United States338 Posts

October 16 2006 11:05 GMT

On October 16 2006 19:08 miNi wrote:
Alright, Tl.net, i need help.

I was helping a friend out, who had that infamous latency problem while getting people to join his sc games.
Well, i tried to open up his ports, but still people wouldn't join.
So, i resetted his router, expecting everything to work.
The computers can't even connect to the internet now.

It's a siemens router.
Help?

Argh, i try to make his gaming experience better, but i screw up his whole internet. I'm so embarrassed

Make sure the blue cables go in the blue holes and the red cables go in the red holes, do a system restore, and say 3 hail marries, after that everything should be good.

miNi

Korea (South)2010 Posts

October 16 2006 11:29 GMT

Ok, I found out how get it working, PPoE or something
but i need the user name and pass : /
I'll have to call them up tomorrow.
Thanks guys

/close thread

pinenamu

United States770 Posts

October 16 2006 11:29 GMT

#10

oo that sucks, gl fixing it
I don't know anything about networking so no help here.. :x

edit:
posted at the same time in above msg o.o

nice to know you fixed it

A3iL3r0n

United States2196 Posts

October 16 2006 11:33 GMT

#11

Wait wait! I have a router problem! My roommate and I (both run off the same router and,) can both join battle.net but can't join the same game.

Edit: It's a NetGear router.

SoMuchBetter

Australia10606 Posts

October 16 2006 11:45 GMT

#12

on one computer,
start menu > run > "regedit"
go to the hkey_current_user > software > battle.net > config and create a dword value key named Game Data Port and give it a decimal value such as 6112. this changes the port sc uses to whatever you enter. do the same with the other computer, but use a different value. now go into your router and set it so that it fowards to the ports you set

it will let you both join the same game, as long as someone else hosts. It will also let both computers host their own seperate games without the latency errors.

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

October 16 2006 12:03 GMT

#13

I think 6112 is the default SC port, so you'd want to make it 6113, 6114, etc (i think it goes up to 6118)

Make sure you choose "decimal value" and not "hexadecimal value"

I've noticed that this isnt a 100% fix, since sometimes I got this weird error where we couldnt find eachother's games but could play under a 3rd host with no latency. But then another time it'd work just fine.

weird stuff.

A3iL3r0n

United States2196 Posts

October 16 2006 12:08 GMT

#14

On October 16 2006 20:45 SoMuchBetter wrote:
on one computer,
start menu > run > "regedit"
go to the hkey_current_user > software > battle.net > config and create a dword value key named Game Data Port and give it a decimal value such as 6112. this changes the port sc uses to whatever you enter. do the same with the other computer, but use a different value. now go into your router and set it so that it fowards to the ports you set

it will let you both join the same game, as long as someone else hosts. It will also let both computers host their own seperate games without the latency errors.

Thanks to both for the help! One quick additional question: How do I access the router and have it forward to the new port settings?

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

October 16 2006 12:13 GMT

#15

does makito's thing not work?

A3iL3r0n

United States2196 Posts

October 16 2006 12:15 GMT

#16

nvm, i'll give it a go

Edit: Okay, I've gotten into the server page, and I go to the port forwarding page, but from there I'm not sure how to correctly set-up a forward to my new port.

lol. there's a default port for age of empires.

EvilTeletubby

Baltimore, USA22258 Posts

October 16 2006 12:45 GMT

#17

On October 16 2006 20:29 miNi wrote:
Ok, I found out how get it working, PPoE or something

Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet - so he has DSL. ^_^

Bah, DHCP ftw.

CubEdIn

Romania5359 Posts

October 16 2006 16:25 GMT

#18

On October 16 2006 20:33 A3iL3r0n wrote:
Wait wait! I have a router problem! My roommate and I (both run off the same router and,) can both join battle.net but can't join the same game.

Edit: It's a NetGear router.

This is tricky, but you COULD get it to work. Search gg.net for router 2 players or something like that, you'll find an article with a solution, but it's a tad too much work than I was willing to do, so I can't guarantee it works.

Also, by "setting up" the router, you need to set up it's IPs, DNSs, Gateways. When you resetted it, all these had erased, so you need to call the ISP and ask what to do. If it's PPPoE then you still need to call the ISP for the username/pass.