Trying to install 4.85 on a Vista laptop

[ugliestmoose]

Come to think of it, Port Forwarding isn't needed, as long as NAT is on. NAT takes care of all of that automatically.

Now, if you were running a publicly available server, then Port Forwarding or a DMZ machine are needed.

Hm, I was under the impression that NAT is enabled by default on most routers. If I turn mine off I can't connect to the internet at all...and doesn't NAT restrict the flow of data?

[Orin]

I can see ping, player counts, and even refresh to show them changing. Everything works perfectly, but it won't let me even start to connect.

Anyways, no idea what NAT is.

[ugliestmoose]

I wouldn't worry about NAT. I just read up on it and I can only find problems with it from people playing online games via console, not PC.

Out of curiosity, have you tried playing any other online games on this laptop?

[Orin]

No. I have Empire at War, but I haven't touched it in ages. Why?

[ugliestmoose]

I'm not too sure where I was going with that...have you tried the port forwarding thing at all?

[Orin]

Really couldn't bring myself to putting any more time into it yesterday. I'm probably going to try that today though. I'll post how it goes.

[Orin]

Frustration reaching critical mass again... Got up to trying to get my name server IPs, but I can't get into my router's web interface. For some ungodly reason it doesn't have the default password like it should. Whee...

Letting the irritation subside, then calling my ISP. -_-

[OD-Saber189]

It looks like nobody has posted here for a while. But I'm having the same trouble as Orin. Vista laptop, went through all the steps of Dboys tutorial and I'm still not about to connect. I get the same error message. So... anyone come up with anything?

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Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me

Take me out to the black
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me

There's no place I can be
Since I found serenity
But you can't take the sky from me

~Firefly~

[Orin]

Honestly, I gave up on it for the moment. I've got too much else preoccupying my one track mind to deal with something I have no experience.