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In the game you need to set to "find other connection"

| Hi,
| I'm looking for some help connecting to online game play from behind a
| router.  I had it working once but had to reinstall the game after a recent
| patch and now i can't figure it out for the life of me . This was online
| direct tcp/ip connect to a friend.  He hosted and I enter multiplayer but my
| IP listed comes up as the routere'd IP rather then my actual IP from road
| runner.  When I tried to connect to him It just kept timing out.  Finally I
| tried to host and entered my road runner IP that the router uses as the
| connection and we both connected to that instead.
|
| Supposedly according to the readme file it's me as the client that should be
| the easy part, not me hosting  :)
| Anyone have some tips?  Should the game be showing my tcp/ip port as the
| routered port, like 192.168.123.137 or should it be showing the actual
| roadrunner IP in that space and if so, how do I get it to do that?
|
| Thanks
|
|

I have a linksys router and I have to set up IP forwarding in the router set
up to forward the ports to the 192.168.1.### that my race box is on. You
will also need to make sure that "find connection another way" is checked in
your connection setup, but yes you should see your local IP in game.

MadDAWG

Yes I have to do it for both client and host. If I don't Sierra.com will
long on, but I will not get any pings. I have my router set as a  DCHP
server for my home network so that may have something to with it. Also yes I
am using the ports from the read me. Something really sounds backasswards if
you can host with out IP forwarding. I'd set them up as forwarded to your
*** box, and see what happens. It couldn't hurt. If that works I'd be
finding out why stuff is getting thru your router next.

MadDAWG

No, to connect as a client you only have to enable the "Use alternate
Connection" option and restart the game.

-Larry