Gaming over Airport

[robotrenegade]

I'm having troubles with War Craft 3. I can make games if I plug my DSL in to my computer but not if it goes through my Airport Extreme Base Station. Is there a way to open a port or something to make this work?

 

[kaltsasa]

I have a Dual Ethernet Airport and I can connect to Battle.net just fine. That said I cannot vouch for the Airport Extreme. One thing to note is that battle.net does not like multiple clients from one ip, so if you are using your airport as a router for multiple computers and you are trying to have more than one user connect to battle.net you may have issues. It seems that the battle.net servers have trouble reciving multiple cd-keys from one ip and they get confused.

 

[howard]

i have no trouble gaming online with my airport...i even set up lan games and people can connect to it over the wireless network. i don't remember any preference that you need to switch..i do know that i have all my sharing and all that other stuff turned on...whether that makes a difference or not i don't know....and appletalk

 

[robotrenegade]

I can join games just fine and get on battle net too. I just can't make games.(well I can but no one can see them)

 

[howard]

Originally posted by robotrenegade
I can join games just fine and get on battle net too. I just can't make games.(well I can but no one can see them)

make sure that both you and whoever is connecting to you as all those sharing prefs turned on and that you have apple talk turned on. then it should work fine.

 

[beatle888]

Re: Gaming over Airport

Originally posted by robotrenegade
I'm having troubles with War Craft 3. I can make games if I plug my DSL in to my computer but not if it goes through my Airport Extreme Base Station. Is there a way to open a port or something to make this work?

could it be because you have the firewall activated? the osx firewall under the sharing preferences?