Jigsaw
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Post by Jigsaw on Jan 26, 2008 20:30:21 GMT
So I have this wireless router and a wi fi card in my laptop. I was smart enough to figure out how to trigger and forward ports and could host for a few days. Now it suddenly stopped working, notching has changed in router settings but I tried to trigger the ports again, no lock though. Anyone can think of a reason why I cannot host now? any suggestions what to try? thanks
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Post by Dario on Jan 27, 2008 12:14:03 GMT
An internal IP change? You can check your internal IP by going to start -> run/execute -> type "command", a msdos window will pop up and there you type ipconfig and press enter, the IP shown there should be your internal IP. To exit the window type exit. Then make sure your router is still forwarding the port to the correct internal IP. WA no longer auto updating the external IP changes? Even though CS and DC told me it should work automatically and I did exactly what they told me to, my game doesn't update the external IP, so I have to do it manually everytime my router gets reseted. I use www.whatismyip.com to check my external IP. Nothing works? Try finding DC or CS on the IRC channel or in T17 forums. |
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Post by Jigsaw on Jan 27, 2008 14:34:15 GMT
Thanks, it is fixed for now, last number of internal ip changed from .3 into .2, do you know why?
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Post by Teletubbies on Jan 28, 2008 15:54:45 GMT
Hi Jiggers,
Unless you have a static IP address your Internet Service Provider allocates IP addresses on a lease (a certain length of time) using DHCP (if you leave your router switched on, or reboot in before the lease expires you get the same IP address. If you leave your router switched off for a while then the ISP will give your router a different IP address next time you connect to the Internet.
In the same way your wireless router uses DHCP at assign your internal IP address.
Your internal IP address changed because your router has assigned a new one when it rebooted or you switched your laptop on again, it depends which order PCs are switched on.
This can be avoided by setting your wireless router to give permanent leases, that is, it always assigns the same IP address to the same PC
Your problem should not re-occur if you use permanent DHCP leases
I always have to change my external when I log onto WA as well, I check that by just logging into my router. The the login page has the current IP address showing which I copy and paste into the WA network screen
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