Please, for the love of God, help me to host any game online!

Ok, maybe I'm doing something wrong (one would think so with my number of failed game hosting attempt climbing into the hundreds of thousands), but I have tried to do just about everything to get a host up. I have shut off every firewall I could find, tried DMZ and port forwarding and I can not ever get anything to work. Right now I have a linksys running v24-sp1 dd-wrt repeating the signal from a netgear WGR614 v6. I am seriously starting to doubt that our crappy local ISP out in the country here is capable of even allowing this because it won't work for about 6 different people from our same ISP and we are all about to go crazy. If someone can guide me through this God-forsaken process, please, have mercy on me...Please, for the love of God, help me to host any game online!
First,two routers not exactly the best methodology, You will run into issues like trying to RDP, and a bevy of other issues towards configuring any services which in your case have become a nightmare, I would suggest getting rid of one of those routers, and purchasing a WAP or two, and connecting up that way. There is really no muss or fuss when it comes to connecting up that way, besides its relatively cheap.



Second, check your ISP, they may have your ports blocked from RDP, and the such. Some wireless providers are well known for doing that.Please, for the love of God, help me to host any game online!
[QUOTE=''Valkyrie_44'']First,two routers not exactly the best methodology, You will run into issues like trying to RDP, and a bevy of other issues towards configuring any services which in your case have become a nightmare, I would suggest getting rid of one of those routers, and purchasing a WAP or two, and connecting up that way. There is really no muss or fuss when it comes to connecting up that way, besides its relatively cheap.



Second, check your ISP, they may have your ports blocked from RDP, and the such. Some wireless providers are well known for doing that.[/QUOTE]
I realize using 2 routers is only going to complicate things further but I have been running my own personal network here for programming purposes but I haven't been using the other comp much lately so I could ditch it. What is the problem with RDP? I don't know much about networking yet so please enlighten me. I already have a wireless card, I just hadn't been using it. I also needed the ethernet connection for a virtual machine I had been using and the router allowed me to aviod having wire running through the middle of the house.
I will check with my ISP on that, does anyone else have any suggestions?
[QUOTE=''camalslayer'']I realize using 2 routers is only going to complicate things further but I have been running my own personal network here for programming purposes but I haven't been using the other comp much lately so I could ditch it. What is the problem with RDP? I don't know much about networking yet so please enlighten me. I already have a wireless card, I just hadn't been using it. I also needed the ethernet connection for a virtual machine I had been using and the router allowed me to aviod having wire running through the middle of the house.[/QUOTE]

RDP= Usually means Remote Desktop, so I don't get the context. Camalslayer, you have two routers, disable DHCP on the second one, so the main router will assign ips itself. Make sure they are running on the same subnet Eg 192.168.1.1 Then port forward on the main router, if this doesn't work your ISP is blocking inbound traffic, sucks :(
Turn off your goddam firewall.
[QUOTE=''clembo1990'']Turn off your goddam firewall.[/QUOTE]

Probably nothing to do with that, I'm assuming he is using Windows firewall, and I doubt he clicked ''block'' when it asked him.
The way I most recently had it setup was static DHCP on the router connected to my computer and DMZ enabled, routed to my computer which is always the same thanks to the static DHCP. Then the router connected to the modem was supposed to be port forwarding to my personal router.If I disable DHCP on my personal router the main router will assign IPs to my computer which is connected to my personal router? To set my router up as a repeater I had to differentiate the subnets so the main one is 192.168.1.1 and mine is 192.168.69.1. The optimal solution in my case would to be able to continue to use my router to access the wireless from the main router (as I am doing now) and be able to do my hosting from the secondary router but its getting quite complicated especially since I don't understand this as well as I should. I'm guessing I'll probably end up ditching the secondary router however and just go back to wireless cards for each machine.
And no, it has nothing to do with the firewalls, my symantec has all the proper exceptions added to it and is configured correctly.
In the end... if everything else fails....best thing to do would be throw everything out, and get an all in one Router/Modem/Firewall.



I recommend Netgear DG834G, they work wonderfully and are easy to configure...even having an onboard DMZ Server for hosting games (I do it with COD4 sometimes), and double hardware firewall for protection....
[QUOTE=''camalslayer'']And no, it has nothing to do with the firewalls, my symantec has all the proper exceptions added to it and is configured correctly.[/QUOTE]



Just in case...Symantec gets in the way...I'm sure u tried turning it off?
[QUOTE=''JigglyWiggly_''][QUOTE=''camalslayer'']

I realize using 2 routers is only going to complicate things further but I have been running my own personal network here for programming purposes but I haven't been using the other comp much lately so I could ditch it. What is the problem with RDP? I don't know much about networking yet so please enlighten me. I already have a wireless card, I just hadn't been using it. I also needed the ethernet connection for a virtual machine I had been using and the router allowed me to aviod having wire running through the middle of the house.[/QUOTE] RDP= Usually means Remote Desktop, so I don't get the context. Camalslayer, you have two routers, disable DHCP on the second one, so the main router will assign ips itself. Make sure they are running on the same subnet Eg 192.168.1.1 Then port forward on the main router, if this doesn't work your ISP is blocking inbound traffic, sucks :([/QUOTE]



I was using RDP, ( I use it alot to connect to work and into my home network), as an example of how having two routers noted can become a real pain in the hoo-haa when an outside location is trying to connect. With one of Carnal's router's utilizing DD-WRT, (which I have had issues with in the past). Sure, disabling one router's DHCP, and making the it a client is all fine and dandy, but two routers still is not a great idea especially when a WAP and switch can do the job more effectively, and efficiently with less time spent on configuration. Unfortunately, as I had noted and as you had Jiggly, I have this really bad feeling that ISP is blocking, which if that is so, I do hope that someone over at that particular ISP has an unfortunate incident where a movie reference of 'beans' and 'franks' occurs.
[QUOTE=''camalslayer'']The way I most recently had it setup was static DHCP on the router connected to my computer and DMZ enabled, routed to my computer which is always the same thanks to the static DHCP. Then the router connected to the modem was supposed to be port forwarding to my personal router.If I disable DHCP on my personal router the main router will assign IPs to my computer which is connected to my personal router? To set my router up as a repeater I had to differentiate the subnets so the main one is 192.168.1.1 and mine is 192.168.69.1. The optimal solution in my case would to be able to continue to use my router to access the wireless from the main router (as I am doing now) and be able to do my hosting from the secondary router but its getting quite complicated especially since I don't understand this as well as I should. I'm guessing I'll probably end up ditching the secondary router however and just go back to wireless cards for each machine.[/QUOTE]

Organize what you just said better, I don't follow at all. Here is what you should do, or atleast I think.

1. Second router, disable dhcp.

2. Find ip of your computer

3. Main router, port forward the needed ports or pseudo DMZ it.
Wrong Forum, this should be in hardware.