oh sorry i forgot to mention that my router is my modem ..
it is an iConnectAccess 624 by "open networks" , there is a guide on portforwarding.com but only for the wireless version , i tried it and it did not work , but i figured it would not mainly due to the fact that it did not mention opening up udp and tcp for game spy .
i have looked at the picture guide and basically i have done the same with my modem , though following the guide that came with the manual .
the last thing i can think of , is that the port forwarding actually worked .... i still got the same "ip error" when i clicked to host a game but i didt not actually try to host one because of the error message ...
i will see if i can get a game to host with the error and report back .
ok , i am not able to get a game running on gamespy , when hosting a game and someone joins ,the other person does not connect to the game ...
i get the following when i click to host a game
"GameSpy Arcade has detected that your computer's internal IP address (192.168.1.100) is different than its external IP address (59.167.35.168). This may be caused by firewalls, a NAT proxies, or other unusual network configurations and may prevent you from hosting a game. Please see our Firewall Guide for further information. You can access it by choosing "Help with GameSpy Arcade" from the Help menu."
i have done port forwarding on my router (iconnect access 624) and opened up the ports needed for game spy + cc5 .. and still comes up with the same error .. another thing is that i can see there might be 20 people in the server room , with most of those online in a game , but only one or two games are listed ..??
i am guessing there is something else that needs to be done with the ip address ... anyone got any ideas?
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