02-07-2004, 12:41 PM
You have to go through a few gyrations to get War3 to be hostable by a machine behind a firewall (most routers have a firewall on them). Blizzard actually has some good information on the web pages about some of this. The general War3 support page is here:
http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=mwr000p options 46, 47, 48, and 49 are probably of particular interest in this case.
The Networking help section here: http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=msi0423p, specifically http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=msi0445p about what ports to open and set to forward. War3 allows you to set a defined port per client and then you can set port forwarding for that port to the specfic client to allow either of them to host behind the router (http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=awr0655p).
Hope that helps.
As another FYI, if you host a custom game, just like in SC, Battle.net is out of the equation. The game creator hosts the game, and everyone else does a direct connect to the host. Packets aren't going to B.net anymore. All your computers can communicate with each other because you can start the game and the data flow is going both ways.
I seem to recall seeing the 5 minute drop thing elsewhere though, I'll try to poke around about it.
http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=mwr000p options 46, 47, 48, and 49 are probably of particular interest in this case.
The Networking help section here: http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=msi0423p, specifically http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=msi0445p about what ports to open and set to forward. War3 allows you to set a defined port per client and then you can set port forwarding for that port to the specfic client to allow either of them to host behind the router (http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=awr0655p).
Hope that helps.
As another FYI, if you host a custom game, just like in SC, Battle.net is out of the equation. The game creator hosts the game, and everyone else does a direct connect to the host. Packets aren't going to B.net anymore. All your computers can communicate with each other because you can start the game and the data flow is going both ways.
I seem to recall seeing the 5 minute drop thing elsewhere though, I'll try to poke around about it.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.