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Johnny Potseed · Guest Offline

k i followed mine go booms how to guide exactly (3 times over to make sure) i connect the subbill and subgame2, and it says its connected to the billing server, but i cant connect to it. Im not behind a firewall, and ive changed ports 4 times without it working. can anyone help?

testforechozero · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 6:05 pm Post subject:

Do you have a router? Or do you have dial-up like me....

Johnny Potseed · Guest Offline

i have cable, not sure about routers... this is my first attempt at creating a server

testforechozero · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 7:55 pm Post subject:

If you have cable, then you have a router.

Find out what kind it is, tell us, and someone who is better with routers (idk, Akai, CyanFire) will help you.

Or if its a Linksys router you can view the stickied post at the top of "General Questions".

Johnny Potseed · Guest Offline

how do i find out what kind of router i have? ive got earthlink, through sprint if anyone can tell me off hand.

Johnny Potseed · Guest Offline

well its not a linksys, other than that no more info so far...

ExplodyThingy · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 9:06 pm Post subject:

You dont necessarily have a router. A router is a peice of hardware between your cable modem and your computer. If your computer plugs straight into your modem you do not have one. Tell us the manufacturor of both products if applicable.
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Johnny Potseed · Guest Offline

no router then, the service is Fast Connect DSL from Sprint, and the modem is a ZyXEL 645M-PLUS ADSL Modem-Bridge

Johnny Potseed · Guest Offline

BTW I dont have a static IP, it changes everytime i turn on my computer, maybe even more than that.

Johnny Potseed · Guest Offline

k i just found out i got a liksys ethernet card, does that count?

ExplodyThingy · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:41 am Post subject:

No, you dont have a router. Nonstatic IPs can cause the problems. Change the "127.0.0.1" to "localhost" for the ips in both servers.

Johnny Potseed · Guest Offline

didnt work

Johnny Potseed · Newbie Joined: Jan 26 2004 Posts: 4 Offline

i changed the serverip in misc & billing to localhost, and favorites.lst too... dont know if i was sposed to do that but it didnt work.

ExplodyThingy · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 12:57 pm Post subject:

Lay off favorites.lst, just edit the files as told to you. Make sure that the billing port and subgame ports are diferent. This seems condratictory, but the subgame.ini [misc]:port must be diferent from subgame.ini [billing]:port, this port must be the same as subbill.ini [misc]:port

Johnny Potseed · Newbie Joined: Jan 26 2004 Posts: 4 Offline

well i changed the favorites cause everytime i changed the ip, it followed... but all 3 ports are the same, as told in the how to guide, but ill try it.

Johnny Potseed · Newbie Joined: Jan 26 2004 Posts: 4 Offline

well i changed the favorites cause everytime i changed the ip, it followed... but that didnt work either

wEaViL · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 12:29 am Post subject:

ya got me stumped.... there is always a chance that your isp blocks all the ports... if that is the case then your going to have to find someone nice enough to host it

Johnny Potseed · Newbie Joined: Jan 26 2004 Posts: 4 Offline

Alright, I give up for now, It could even be my piece of crap computer(Compaq, need i say more?) cause it already has probs with just the ethernet card. I may try again when i get a new computer here in a few months. I thank you all for your help.