Yeah this has definitely been bugging me a lot about iCCup. Takes so damn long to find good games sometimes. And it definitely doesn't help when the + Show Spoiler [so emberassing] +

D- i haven't played in forever, k? and i was always noob

population is so low. One a side note, I was wanting to play WarCraft III the other month and they don't have a working ladder for that AT ALL. You either play Dota games or sit in the custom game lobby for 30 mins.

This should definitely be on top of the fix list. Can't disagree.

letian

Germany4221 Posts

January 15 2013 06:33 GMT

#62

Yeah, same here. I can't host game on ICCUp, just sitting and waiting for somebody to make a game.
And it is next to impossible to join a 1x1 game, cause the seat is already taken 95% of the time. That is how I got playing only 2x2

letian

Germany4221 Posts

January 15 2013 06:37 GMT

#63

On January 14 2013 12:39 R1CH wrote:
I'm very surprised iccup hasn't added upnp support to their launcher yet. 99% of routers could be automatically configured via upnp, it would save so many headaches.

This is a good idea. I wonder if we could address iccup staff with it. Hell, I would even pay 5 bucks for it.

Qwyn

United States2779 Posts

January 15 2013 06:56 GMT

#64

Wasn't there some guy who designed a replay extension with unit tabs and such that also wanted to design auto-matchmaking and custom hotkey layouts?

Sentenal

United States12398 Posts

January 15 2013 07:10 GMT

#65

With alot of people I think it might be an issue with their routers themselves. Years ago, I had problems with hosting, and port forwarding and all that never solved the problem. Then eventually I changed internet providers, got a new router, and all the sudden port forwarding worked like a charm. After that, I can host games. Occasionally I get random times when I can't, but when that happens, for some reason it was my anti-virus software, and I just had to disable that for a bit to get to hosting again.

Deleted User 268575

146 Posts

January 15 2013 07:48 GMT

#66

Although the majority of people who try to host games have this problem, I don't think this issue is the main reason that BW isn't doing so well. I mean, it's not like if you can't host games, you're not able to play at all. There's still people who host games and if you want to play with friends all you have to do is the LAT trick or get someone else to host.

Falling

Canada11469 Posts

January 15 2013 07:54 GMT

#67

Bah. It wasn't portforwarding. My friend must have a terrible internet connection or something. Terrible, terrible lag

thezanursic

5497 Posts

January 15 2013 10:23 GMT

#68

I agree, with portforwarding it makes finding games a lot less frustrating, but I really don't know what can be done and how feasible it would be.

pebble444

Italy2503 Posts

January 18 2013 14:47 GMT

#69

I suddenly woke up yesterday and Was able to host.
It appears my Anti-virus program was blocking my port.
Here is how i set up on my router:
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Here is how i set up on my standard windows firewall:

And finally here is how i set up on my Anti-virus program:
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Hope this helps someone

Taefox

1533 Posts

January 18 2013 16:42 GMT

#70

On January 14 2013 12:03 AFKing wrote:
Iccup only works like occasionally at my school, but at least we can lan :\

When you're the only one who plays Bw in a region then who u want to play via LAN with ? LAN isn't the big deal

Liquid`Drone

Norway28781 Posts

January 18 2013 19:22 GMT

#71

I ended up paying $20 for the portforward.com tool after having tried to fix it myself with their guidelines.

back in the day not being able to host wasn't that big a deal cause most people could host, but it seems that modern routers need to be fixed manually so a lot less people can make.

I can definitely sympathize with those saying not being able to host killed their bw spirit, cause I've like, quintupled my bw time after I got the port forwarding working.

Megaliskuu

United States5123 Posts

January 18 2013 19:38 GMT

#72

On January 19 2013 04:22 Liquid`Drone wrote:
I ended up paying $20 for the portforward.com tool after having tried to fix it myself with their guidelines.

back in the day not being able to host wasn't that big a deal cause most people could host, but it seems that modern routers need to be fixed manually so a lot less people can make.

I can definitely sympathize with those saying not being able to host killed their bw spirit, cause I've like, quintupled my bw time after I got the port forwarding working.

Does their 'tool' work even if you don't have any router access? I'm in an apartment complex where they provide the internet so I can't mess with router

. Even worse I can't be in a game with more than 1 other person or else everyone discs.

Edit: nvm it wouldn't

Liquid`Drone

Norway28781 Posts

January 18 2013 19:57 GMT

#73

yea I can't picture it working without router access.

RaGe

Belgium9950 Posts

January 18 2013 20:18 GMT

#74

After reading this thread I'm pretty sure iCCup just has hosting problems outside of port forwarding (meaning correctly forwarded ports don't lead to being able to host) these days. Which seems really weird cause afaik even lobby hosting is P2P.

Harem

United States11393 Posts

January 18 2013 21:18 GMT

#75

On January 15 2013 16:48 Jemah wrote:
Although the majority of people who try to host games have this problem, I don't think this issue is the main reason that BW isn't doing so well. I mean, it's not like if you can't host games, you're not able to play at all. There's still people who host games and if you want to play with friends all you have to do is the LAT trick or get someone else to host.

I dunno about you but being forced to play only vs Peruvians on Python all day would be a fate worse than hell.

R1CH

Netherlands10342 Posts

January 18 2013 22:05 GMT

#76

On January 19 2013 05:18 RaGe wrote:
After reading this thread I'm pretty sure iCCup just has hosting problems outside of port forwarding (meaning correctly forwarded ports don't lead to being able to host) these days. Which seems really weird cause afaik even lobby hosting is P2P.

Iccup doesn't really "host" anything, it's all P2P.

Capresis

United States518 Posts

January 19 2013 03:17 GMT

#77

Hey. I need to tell everyone how I'd been trying to fix my router the last ten days. You don't know how many hours I spent trying to fix it... Everyone says it's easy but I tried so many guides, called my ISP so many times... Agh so frustrating. Then I contacted xboi209 who offered his services in this thread a few pages back. The following day he remotely connected to my computer and fixed everything within two minutes flat; my ports, the brood war colors glitch, ranks display glitch, and my broken leg. Then he sent me on my merry way. Such a damn professional. Thanks xboi209, you don't know how grateful I am (=

Falling

Canada11469 Posts

January 19 2013 04:10 GMT

#78

Frick!
Dunno what's up today, but both Garena and Hamachi are not working. Everybody has been port forwarded, firewalls exceptions have been made, yada, yada. No one can see each other's games and can't tunnel each other in Garena.

Not very happy.

sundersoft

91 Posts

January 19 2013 04:52 GMT

#79

I guess you could hook the windows sockets DLL and have it do TCP/UDP punch-through (using STUN or something similar) whenever someone using the hook joins a server hosted by someone also using the hook. It would also need to translate the ports that Starcraft uses to whatever ports it gets from the punch-through (e.g. if Starcraft sends to an IP address on port 6112, the actual port to send to would be looked up by the DLL; same for recieving a packet). Although I'm not sure if Starcraft actually uses multiple ports. The hook may also send and intercept private chat messages to set up the connection if the STUN server requires the client and server to be able to communicate beforehand.

oovv

366 Posts

January 19 2013 11:58 GMT

#80

Please, someone find a solution!:D