Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2005-08-11 at 05:28:52
Hi,
Does anyone knows how to play the same game on battlenet using a single WAN connection without lag?
Is this possible? I have heard a lot of different thing about this...
Thanks for your help.
VooDoo
Does anyone knows how to play the same game on battlenet using a single WAN connection without lag?
Is this possible? I have heard a lot of different thing about this...
Thanks for your help.
VooDoo
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mini Moose 2707 on 2005-08-11 at 09:50:39
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Report, edit, etc...Posted by Yoshi da Sniper on 2005-08-11 at 11:49:26
I play Starcraft on a WAN connection all the time. Even on my laptop on battery. I always get zero lag.
Heres some things you can try:
Access your routers administration panel by going into Start > Run... > "cmd" or "command" if you're on old windows and then in command prompt type "ipconfig /all".
Find your wifi connection in the list. Look at default gateway, and type that into your favourite browser. My default gateway is 192.168.1.1, so you can try that.
You'll be prompted for a password. If your router is linksys, the default password is "admin". You may have to look it up if your router isnt linksys.
Look around the control panel. Heres the two things you should try:
Under channel, it will likely be channel 6. Try changing it to 1 or 11, and see if it improves. It might have been wireless interference.
Take your IP address from "ipconfig" (it may change everytime you use windows though) and make yourself a "DMZ Host" by filling out that ip in the proper section. If the router firewall is screwing up your SC, then this will fix it, but expose that computer to the internet without a router firewall.
Heres some things you can try:
Access your routers administration panel by going into Start > Run... > "cmd" or "command" if you're on old windows and then in command prompt type "ipconfig /all".
Find your wifi connection in the list. Look at default gateway, and type that into your favourite browser. My default gateway is 192.168.1.1, so you can try that.
You'll be prompted for a password. If your router is linksys, the default password is "admin". You may have to look it up if your router isnt linksys.
Look around the control panel. Heres the two things you should try:
Under channel, it will likely be channel 6. Try changing it to 1 or 11, and see if it improves. It might have been wireless interference.
Take your IP address from "ipconfig" (it may change everytime you use windows though) and make yourself a "DMZ Host" by filling out that ip in the proper section. If the router firewall is screwing up your SC, then this will fix it, but expose that computer to the internet without a router firewall.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2005-08-16 at 08:47:16
Thanks,
But sorry I was meaning playing at multiple using the same WAN connection, and on the same batllenet map...
I have heard that it is possible using PAT or NAT, but tried both without success...
Does anyone know how to change the default battlenet port??
Thanks
VooDoo
But sorry I was meaning playing at multiple using the same WAN connection, and on the same batllenet map...
I have heard that it is possible using PAT or NAT, but tried both without success...
Does anyone know how to change the default battlenet port??
Thanks
VooDoo
Report, edit, etc...Posted by chuiu on 2005-08-16 at 12:06:22
You're trying to get everyone on your LAN to be able to play on Bnet? I don't think anyone has been successful with this without tons of lag. I personally don't know why there is tons of lag but I can speculate that the packets of information aren't going to the right person(s) and so there is a lot of lost packets which causes 'lag' because then the person who transmitted that information needs to continue to do so until the right person recieves it.
It's like if the person I was throwing the ball to was behind you, you keep blocking him so I have to keep throwing the ball to try to get it to him and it ends up taking a long time.
ADDITION:
Everybody on bnet plays SC on a WAN connection.
It's like if the person I was throwing the ball to was behind you, you keep blocking him so I have to keep throwing the ball to try to get it to him and it ends up taking a long time.
ADDITION:
QUOTE(Yoshi da Sniper @ Aug 11 2005, 10:49 AM)
I play Starcraft on a WAN connection all the time.
Everybody on bnet plays SC on a WAN connection.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Felagund on 2005-08-16 at 12:24:38
Didn't he mean like through some phone company satellite access or something?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by chuiu on 2005-08-16 at 12:43:09
No ... WAN just means Wide Area Network. He's making it sound like he has a LAN hooked up to a WAN (internet) and he can't play on battlenet because they lag when playing with each other.