Starcraft over Battle.net, connection problems.

[Rucus]

I'm hoping this isn't far off topic.

I've bought Starcraft for the sole purpose of playing it online, with someone in the same room as myself.

I am connected to the internet through a SMC Barricade 4 Port Cable Router (7004ABR), on Rogers @Home (cable). Everything but Starcraft seems to work fine. I can play Diablo II on Battle.net no problem, and we can both play Starcraft in different games on Battle.net, and IPX games work fine as well -- the catch is that neither of us can join a game that the other person started. It just complains of excessive latency and gives up.

I have heard many that have this problem, and that it may be related to the NAT that the router uses, and Blizzard even claimed they fixed it and that everything works fine, but I have not found that to be the case. I have opened port 6112 as suggested for Battle.net, and still no luck.

We both have been able to join someone else's game at the same time once, but the other person was dropped before the game started with a 'The host has left' message, even though he hadn't. I remained in the game (I was the first to join it, if that makes a difference).

I've been messing around with this for days, and it's starting to drive me up the wall. I even finally updated the firmware in hopes that that would solve the problem.

Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks...

Q : Is Dvorak better than QWERTY?
A : Only if you use a shared computer.

 

[jlanka]

1) You don't have to open up any ports if it's all internal

2) Does it work without the router i.e. using a crossover cable?

3) Do you have good ping times with the router?

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[Rucus]

Battle.net is online, so I cannot get both computers connected without the router to try using a crossover. IPX games through the router work fine. Ping times to the router are also fine, as are single player games on Battle.net.

Q : Is Dvorak better than QWERTY?
A : Only if you use a shared computer.

 

[Guest]

Two issues: first, can the two of you play each other on your LAN without being online? I had a problem with an IPX game because the PC with the firewall had two network cards, and the game configured itself to the wrong network card.

Secondly, I use NAT, and both my boxes cannot play online games at the same time, presumably because NAT messes it all up (both boxes show the same IP address to the world through the router). This is further complicated by the firewall used to share internet connections. I know this isn't the answer you want, but I simply gave up!

I've been to the mountain and didn't like what I saw.