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Post subject: lan to lan gaming  Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:04 am |
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I'm on a wireless lan, and so is my mate. whenever we try to play online it doesn't work? is there a reason for this? and if there is, how can i get round it?
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:47 am |
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You will need to bridge your lans together i think.
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Arma
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:41 am |
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Explain more, do you mean one of you hosts the game (server), or both connecting to an external game server?
Are the wireless lans in the same building, do they have the same ISP, can you ping the others wirless routers etc?
More info please...
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:55 am |
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like arma said need more info.
Are you sharing an internet connection?
what game are you playing...you get any error messages?
what do you mean by "it doesnt work"
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Andranov
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:00 pm |
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We're trying to play Civ4 using a direct host (because gamespy won't work). he's on a LAN at his house, and i'm on a different one at mine. When we try to connect it says the host has timed out.
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:24 pm |
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whats civ 4 like andranov ? loved 2 - last one i played. (started playing on civ 1 on the mac years ago  ) how does online work?
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:36 pm |
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well if you want to play over the LAN, you need to be on the same LAN....
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Arma
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:22 pm |
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Apocalypse=GCHQ= wrote: well if you want to play over the LAN, you need to be on the same LAN....
Not necessarilly 
If its the game that desires true lan then youwould need to do a vpn (which is an arse to set up )
More likley is the routers at either end need to be configured to 'port forward' for the correct ports that the game runs on _________________
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:40 pm |
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Arma=GCHQ= wrote: Apocalypse=GCHQ= wrote: well if you want to play over the LAN, you need to be on the same LAN.... Not necessarilly If its the game that desires true lan then youwould need to do a vpn (which is an arse to set up ) More likley is the routers at either end need to be configured to 'port forward' for the correct ports that the game runs on If you want to play via a vpn get a program like hamachi.
Its a good solution and its very easy to use.
hxxp://www.hamachi.cc
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:25 am |
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i agree with arma,sounds like u need to set up the hosts router
(port forwarding).Cant help you with that though as itried to do it here and didnt work   _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:36 am |
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Arma=GCHQ= wrote: Apocalypse=GCHQ= wrote: well if you want to play over the LAN, you need to be on the same LAN.... Not necessarilly If its the game that desires true lan then youwould need to do a vpn (which is an arse to set up ) More likley is the routers at either end need to be configured to 'port forward' for the correct ports that the game runs on doesnt that just count as playing on the internet??? 
my understanding of a "LAN" is two computers hooked up to a server, and playing by connecting directly to each other....?
two seperate LANs, both hooked up to the internet, is just internet gaming.....no??
Is there some techy thing i'm missing?? (i'm nearly sure there is  )
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Arma
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:55 am |
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LAN : computers conneted together using the same physical network. (ie your home network, your office network etc)
VPN Tunneling : secret ip hax, joins two seperate networks together as one using public networks (the internet) as transit. PS VPN = VIRTUAL Private Network.
Server : indicates a seperate computer as the game server, when we talk about Lan gaming it could be that if there are two computers playing one of them will act as the server and one will be the client.
Internet gaming : any number of 'networks' (ie computers behind home/work routers) connect to a game server seperate of all the networks.
Lan gaming, any number of computers on the same network (be it physical or vpn) connecting to a server be it game/host or dedicated.
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:00 pm |
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