Unable to connect to a friend.

[jaimehlers]

We've both tried connecting to each other's IP address, but no luck. The connection keeps timing out.

 

[Knight451]

Do you have your firewall set up so that CIV can get out? May just be a setting that needs to be adjusted.

 

[tegilbor]

Yea, the firewall ist usually the first guess in such a situation. Have you been able to connect to your friend's computer with other games? Can you ping your friend's IP address (assuming you know how to do that)?

There are actually a thousand other possibilities, depending on how much or how little you know about networking. For example, I've seen people trying to connect to their friends' private IP addresses.

 

[jaimehlers]

We were able to connect before, though, and I haven't changed any settings in the meantime.

I also used whatismyip.com to get my real IP address, and as I said, it worked before. But now neither of us can connect.