Ok... Here is my problem. I just got this new router that I bought and I set it up so that my Windows Vista (piece of shit computer ) and my Windows XP () are connected to it. I don't have any problems with the speed of my internet with both computers in use of it but when it comes to playing on Battle.net, I don't have the best latency in the world. With my normal direct connection from my modem, I would only have 1 'bar' if you will of latency on battle.net. Now when I make a game, no one can join my games because of the high latency and I appear to be having 3-4 'bars' when I enter a game that someone else has made. Is there any way that I could change this so that my latency could be low again without getting away from my router and going back to my modem?

That isn't latency. You need to set up port forwarding on your router so that it knows where to sending incoming connection requests. Otherwise it cannot know where to send them.

That should be fun to figure out... I don't even know how to do that and I know I didn't see anything to do that in the program that is for it... Anyway I could find ways on how to do that then, I wouldn't mind searching through the internet to find out how to do it if no one knows off hand. Thanks for the start though

http://www.google.com/search?q=port+forward&

Ok I read through the tutorial on how to get Starcraft to port forward and what not, but when I try to enter the IP address of my router, it doesn't want to go to it and always trys to add an http:// in front of my IP address... Then is comes up asking me to find a web page which isn't what it shows in the tutorial and I can't buy PFConfig...


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Ok... I figured this all out now... I am going to test this as soon as I can but it looks like everything is going to be working now since it says that everything was done the correct way. Thanks for the help guys, will let you know how everything turned out,

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Oct 29 2007, 11:40 pm by Joshgt.

Because I did a lot.

Portfowarding is easy as pie I don't see why so many people have problems with it.

The hardest part is probably knowing the username and password.

The tutorial seemed to work pretty well and everything seems to be working ok... I knew my username and password but one of the big problems was understanding the 'url' for my router... Couldn't figure that one out until I realized that I was putting in the wrong number,

192.168.0.1?

Lol.

Something like that, hahaha... but keep it a shhhh...

I think that's the default IP for a router... or something.

No its the default gateway but close enough .
192.168.0.1
192.168.1.1
192.168.2.1

Most likey 192.168.1.1

Zomg ima hax u!


Lawls.

Did you get your problem fixed though?

It seems like everything is fixed so far, I went back into my router and looked to see if everything was still in there to forward Starcraft like I want it to and it still shows up. I'm guessing that solved the whole thing but if I find something odd come up like that again, I will know where to come,

It would be wise to port forward all Blizzard games that you own..

Yeah, I have port forwarding, but what sucks is that mine and my brother's computer are connected to the same router, and it doesn't let us forward the same port for both computers. He always keeps it so he can host.

You can change the port number used on the various Blizzard games. On WC3, there is an in-game setting; for the rest there is a registry setting. The location was something like HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Battle.net\Configuration and you need to make a DWORD value called Game Data Port at that location. Be sure to click Decimal before you enter in the number.

you can forward port 6112-6114 for you and port 6115-6119 for your brother

The game only requires one port.