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FSXA Bad multiplayer connection

mdm248111

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So I have always had a "-1" for my multiplayer connection when hosting. I did some research and found that it is because of my router having a firewall. So last night, I disabled the firewall and added port forwarding: 23456 & 6112-6122.

After doing this (last night; sunday 2-14-10) I finally had a connection of 180 and a green bar. I tried hosting again tonight, yet all I get is -1 and red again?!?

:confused:

PS. I have Road Runner highspeed from Time Warner Cable, and a Linksys router.
 
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I feel your pain!! Granted my issues are with FS9 but...

I'm one of four who use to fly regularly on the weekends... until a few months ago. I've always hosted and I've always run through a router that has always been configured correctly. FS9, TeamSpeak, and FSNav never had a problem connecting or maintaining a connection...

A few months ago we suddenly had a slew of connection issues too numerous to detail. We've purposefully changed, repaired, reinstalled, tweaked, and reset every bit of software and hardware... Nothing seems to work. I've even used FSHost with marginal success. I've searched the Web for solutions and found a few that seemed to work.

Recently it has become possible for my Maryland-based wingman and I to connect with no major issues but my Florida-based and Canadian-based wingmen are still unable to maintain a stable connection.

Is it the Internet? Is it our ISPs? Is it our hardware? Our software? Why were we able to have so many perfect sessions before and not now?

So much frustration...
 
mdm248111 said:
So I have always had a "-1" for my multiplayer connection when hosting. I did some research and found that it is because of my router having a firewall. So last night, I disabled the firewall and added port forwarding: 23456 & 6112-6122.

After doing this (last night; sunday 2-14-10) I finally had a connection of 180 and a green bar. I tried hosting again tonight, yet all I get is -1 and red again?!?

:confused:

PS. I have Road Runner highspeed from Time Warner Cable, and a Linksys router.
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Sounds like you not using a static address…

My system is different to yours, I’m still on my trusty XP and 2004, but this is what you need to understand…

When you open ports, you open them to a specific IP “inside”…

Now if it’s not static, then when you switch another machine on first, and restart the next day… you become 10.0.0.4 and not 10.0.0.3… wrong machine is now seeing the open ports… because the router by default also does dynamic IP assignments…

I think you had it, but the IP is not static, a setting on the router.

Its like you learning to kiss mary, but then the next day you go off to sarah’s house, and get a fat slap, that’s what the machines are doing ;)

Not to be confused with the dynamic IP of the NAT router, which also changes… if you dont understand that, its like kissing a girl on another planet :D
 
CrashTestDummy said:
Sounds like you not using a static address…

My system is different to yours, I’m still on my trusty XP and 2004, but this is what you need to understand…

When you open ports, you open them to a specific IP “inside”…

Now if it’s not static, then when you switch another machine on first, and restart the next day… you become 10.0.0.4 and not 10.0.0.3… wrong machine is now seeing the open ports… because the router by default also does dynamic IP assignments…

I think you had it, but the IP is not static, a setting on the router.

Its like you learning to kiss mary, but then the next day you go off to sarah’s house, and get a fat slap, that’s what the machines are doing ;)

Not to be confused with the dynamic IP of the NAT router, which also changes… if you dont understand that, its like kissing a girl on another planet :D
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khaos_56k said:
Excellent observation! I'll bet that maybe his problem.

Wish my solution was that simple...
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Thanks!! That happened to be the solution! I had my forwarding to 192.168.1.101 instead of " " 1.100. :eek:

Thanks again!:D
 
He he, you’re a pilot, mention a beautiful woman, and kapish, the man gets it.

I think it’s all in the etymology of flying… it’s in the pilot gene ;)
I looked up Cockpit, which they say comes from the cruel sport of cock fighting!
Well then I ask, where did JoyStick come from… ha ha

I think when the first pilot looked at an airplane, the instructor said, get into the cockpit, grab your joystick, think of a beautiful woman, and fly for England… and every plane took off the first time ;)

Nothing has changed ;)
 
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