Unreal Tournament 2003 help

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:12 pm

Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I figured I'd ask here and hopefully get some help or suggestions since I tried everything else.

A few of my friends and I wanted to play UT2k3.

2 of my friends are using a cable/dsl modem and just have that plugged into their machine without a network hub/router, while I have cable but having a network router/hub(Which is DI-604 from D-Link). I already have set the ports in the router and have that configured.

So I set up a game and run it, but my friends see me, but cant connect. I turned off the Windows Firewall (Risky, I know but was trying it out), and no luck. Even when my friends host the game, I see them but cant join them. Especially when my friends is directly hooked into the internet and has no router/hub to interfere.

I even start up a dedicated server and then try joining that, I can get in, but my friends cant.

Any ideas? Already searched the Atari forums, the UT forums and even Google'd but no luck, and sure as hell didnt have any luck asking in the IRC chat channel in UT.

Thanks for your help and time

Josh

xilanthanax · Post by **xilanthanax** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:34 pm

Try having them connect to your internal IP?

Tallas · Post by **Tallas** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:07 am

Do you all have the same version (you patched but they didn't, or they patched and you didn't)?

Kula · Post by **Kula** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:20 am

Eliminate the router from the equation and see if you can connect. That would be the first logical step.

Fallakin Kuvari · Post by **Fallakin Kuvari** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 3:48 pm

First logical step is what Tallas said.

Post by **Ddrak** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:14 pm

Maybe a silly question that you don't want to answer, but are you all using different CD keys?

Dd

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:54 pm

Try having them connect to your internal IP?

Not sure if thats possible in UT2k3, not like in the Original UT where you can type it in and just connect, unless there's a console command to do that.

Do you all have the same version (you patched but they didn't, or they patched and you didn't)?

Yep we do, even with all the other stuff too like Bright Skins, Epic Bonus Pack, CM Bonus pack etc. We can join the other servers that we see as well but not just to our game that we want to play.

Eliminate the router from the equation and see if you can connect. That would be the first logical step.

Just to test it out, but also, that would mean my wife wouldnt be able to get on. But will try that to see if thats the problem.

Thanks for replies

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:56 pm

Ddrak wrote:Maybe a silly question that you don't want to answer, but are you all using different CD keys?

Dd

Yep, we do have different CD keys.

xilanthanax · Post by **xilanthanax** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:26 am

Only reason I suggested internal IP is because I had a similar problem when trying to run Ventrilo.

Kula · Post by **Kula** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:42 pm

My guess is it is a port forwarding issue.