"waiting to hear from other player" please help

[speedbump86]

please help my friend and I have been trying to play civ 4 multiplayer. we've tried gamespy, direct ip, and direct ip hamachi and everytime we go a few turns then it says waiting to hear from player and it never goes away. what would cause this ive checked online for a few hours now and cant find an answer. He has all his ports forwarded and my e1000 linksys router wont let me forward all of them but i can join other games no problem. we've both tried hosting but this keeps happening. do you guys know what could be causing it?

 

[speedbump86]

has no one ever had this problem before?

 

[speedbump86]

is this board very slow or does no one know

 

[Furiey]

If you can get in at all then port forwarding probably isn't the issue. Have you double checked your firewall in case that thinks it's being flooded or anything? My multiplayer experience was trouble free with pitboss & direct IP so I never had to trouble shoot it. Oh and the board can be very slow depending on who has the time but people will answer if they know. You might find more help in the multiplayer part of the forum where there are many more people playing multiplayer in many different ways.