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mrmin123
Korea (South)2971 Posts
So me and my friend ran into this problem after we tried to play public games on an ICS connection in his room, and got unbearable lag. So after some research we found out that we can play together in the same game without lag as long as there isn't anyone from outside our little LAN in the game. We can also play games with other people separately, but simultaneously. But we want to play 2v2s and such together against other people online, and it starts lagging like a bitch.
Now, I've looked around and there's a thread from 2003 here (Router and Starcraft), and there's some talk about crazy linux iptable shit (???), and apparently some routers that support multiple computers on a LAN being able to play on Battle.net with other people.
But of course, this is 3 years old. Are there any new solutions/routers out nowadays that can alleviate this problem? We're particularly worried since we're moving to our own place next year and we'll all be sharing the same connection, and we want StarCraft.
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mrmin123
Korea (South)2971 Posts
Fuck my life - refined my search. Does this shit work? I can't check at the moment.
http://teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=31166
On November 30 2005 14:04 MoooN wrote:Show nested quote +On September 01 2005 20:38 SojT wrote:
hey, im moving into an apartment with a friend of mine that also plays broodwar and we often play together... i know that if you use a router its impossible to play together - but is there another way? possibly a hub? any help or suggestions is apprecaited its not impossible lol Start -> Progrms -> run : "regedit" ---> "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Battle.net\Configuration" add a new key with the name: "Game Data Port" as DWORD-value you enter the Port you want to use ,e.g. 6113. there are only some ports allowed ... i think between 6113 and 6118 now you have to forward the port you just entered to you intern ip ( in the router menue) = you can play together
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It works, make sure the value is decimal and not hex. Most dlink routers work for sc without messing with the registry. Also, just joining games instead of creating will make it work sometimes.
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mrmin123
Korea (South)2971 Posts
So should I be adding a New Key, String, Binary, DWORD, Multi-string, or Expandable String Value?
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On April 13 2006 16:56 mrmin123 wrote:
So should I be adding a New Key, String, Binary, DWORD, Multi-string, or Expandable String Value?
DWORD
Game Data Port
Decimal 6113
On your router, set packet forwading (on some Virtual Server) to your PC IP. Note, packets are UDP.
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mrmin123
Korea (South)2971 Posts
Okay, it looks like it might work on a router, but what about on an ICS? It's basically battle.net -> computer1 -> access point -> computer 2 right now, and the above regedit solution does not work.
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The registry crap is bullshit. I've tested it. Before any port forwarding, I couldn't host games. After forwarding port 6112 (default port), I could host games fine. After using that registry trick, I set the port to 6113, and forwarded 6113, and guess what? I couldn't host. The "Game Data Port" registry thing does NADA.
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ask you ISP if they can give you sepperate IPs, some kind of package deal so that you guys dont lag when sharing data packets in programs. just drive a hard bargain eventually they will give you some kind of deal, trust me i work in sales.
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On April 14 2006 02:12 CharlieMurphy wrote:
ask you ISP if they can give you sepperate IPs, some kind of package deal so that you guys dont lag when sharing data packets in programs. just drive a hard bargain eventually they will give you some kind of deal, trust me i work in sales.
I don't see him being able to convince his ISP to do that without more $
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someone can maybe check it out? it would help a lot of players that cannot create or play together
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On April 13 2006 23:29 ButtFace wrote:
The registry crap is bullshit. I've tested it. Before any port forwarding, I couldn't host games. After forwarding port 6112 (default port), I could host games fine. After using that registry trick, I set the port to 6113, and forwarded 6113, and guess what? I couldn't host. The "Game Data Port" registry thing does NADA.
Thats because you have not public IP. If you do, portforward works.
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United States5262 Posts
I'm Korean and I don't know.
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On April 14 2006 16:41 Ashur wrote:
Thats because you have not public IP. If you do, portforward works.
Port forwarding works just fine, unless I use that registry thing to change the port bw connects with, then all of a sudden port forwarding doesn't work? No, port forwarding does work, but the registry thing does not. Anyway, sorry for being rude in my first post. And Ashur, could you please explain what you were saying about the public IP? Thank you.
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I wrote to Netgear support about the aforementioned router and here's the response I got:
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Regarding your concern, please note that this router will support your purpose. It does support multiple computers behind 1 router with 1 IP address to be able to play StarCraft simultaneously on the same realm.
I hope it should resolve your concern please feel free to revert for further support.
Regards,
Vidhu Rai
Netgear Support
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I also found this post on a forum (read the last post)
http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=68029
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wow, that then woudl be great, maybe if some can install that program and test it... :D
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"It does support multiple computers behind 1 router with 1 IP address to be able to play StarCraft simultaneously on the same realm."
What are they actually saying? "The same game?" or just "both computers in BNet at the same time"? "The same realm seems rather vague to me.
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I wrote back to them again to make sure. Here's the response I got.
"Regarding your concern please note that it is possible that the two computers can play in the _same game_ with other people present (that are from outside the LAN) without experiencing heavy lag."
I also wrote to them regarding the 2 different versions of the WPN824 router (v1 and v2), and this is what they said:
"Regarding your concern, yes both the WPN824 versions supports the Starcraft multiple gaming capability and the difference between both the versions is that in v2 we can turn off the LEDs."
The v2 is also more stable. ^_^
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mrmin123
Korea (South)2971 Posts
The netgear page that mentions StarCraft capabilities is on NETGEAR Korea, for firmware 2.0.15. The US WPN824 support page only has up to firmware 1.0.19. Can I actually use the Korean firmware on a US version of the WPN824? I don't want to buy the thing over here just to find out that the firmware fix doesn't work on my versoin of the WPN824.
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