Help with opening ports to play multiplayer

[Tappara]

So, I'm trying to play multiplayer game with my friend, but it just doesn't work . I found these instructions:

Playing a Direct IP game

To Join a game: You must know the IP adress of the host (yes I know it), and the following port must be opened
2302 (DirectPlay - UDP)

To Host a game: The following ports must be opened and your ISP and Firewall must allow you to act as server on these ports.
13139 (Custom UDP Pings)
6500 (Query Port)
2302 (DirectPlay - UDP)


I really don't know anything about these things, so could somebody explain step by step how to open those ports? Thank you.

 

[ciphrix]

Hi, umm me and my friend play PTW and he has a router, we had the same problems except we figured it out pretty quickly, what you need to do is (I'm assuming one of you has a router) foward those ports. Unfortuneatly for you, I'm not the one with the router so I dun know how its dun, but the instructions should come with your router. I believe the readme.txt file has the ports u need to open/foward (is that where u got those numbers? if so, then dats it, I haven'ted checked the readme).

Also, if you or ur friend has a firewall, u should turn it off before trying the game. (remember XP has one inbuilt...even thou its pretty crap, it still blocks things u dun want it to block >_< )

Good Luck

 

[Tigress]

Hi there,

You don't say what version of the game you are playing or if you have a hub/router. Check this posting: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=91842 for a full list of ports that need to be opened. As for how to open them, it all depends on yoru hardware.

Good luck.