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This is another mini tutorial I brought over from WC3Diplo, since I found Portforward to be useless. Cheers!


This is an advanced method to allow you to host, its different depending on the router you have.

Steps:

1. Press start and go to run. type in cmd and press enter. This will bring up the Command Prompt.

2. Type in ipconfig (in the Command Prompt) and press enter.

3. Look at these numbers...When you're done looking, write down the default gateway and the ip adress, or keep the window open.

4. Type the default gateway into your internet browser window address bar and hit enter.

5a. Type in the password and username. For some routers, the default name is admin with no password. If you never set either, ask your router manufacturer at its website. Otherwise, put in your assigned name/password.

5b. One way to get around this if nothing else helps is to hold down the Reset button, if your router has one, until it resets (duh), and it should (on some routers) reset the name and password to the factory issued default.

6. You should be taken to a screen with a lot of tabs. Most routers look different. Scurry around for a tab that says forwarding, or (in my case) Trusted Programs.

7. In the ports, type 6112 in the first one, 6119 in the one next to it, choose both and take the last 3 numbers from your IP address and put it in the end of the numbers at the far right. (Borrowed from a friends tutorial. Thanks, DrunkenLee, wherever you are...lol)

Common router name/passwords are:

admin/admin
admin/[blank]
guest/guest
[blank]/[blank]
[blank]/pass

Just try simple things...And substitute [blank] for leaving the space empty.

My own router had Blizzards Battle.net service as a preprogrammed thing to allow, maybe you will get lucky too. Questions are welcome, but I'm not a miracle worker.

TheStinger

One thing to note: a lot of people have broadband modems that act as a "router" and if your ISP has the settings locked - google the modem to find out - you will never be able to host. With these odd modems you have to port forward the modem itself. I found this sad fact out after I realized that after all my hard work - my router had BNet pre-programmed in - so it led me to discovering that Sympatico is evil.