OK, a newcomer to the LFS forums, here goes.
Me and a friend of mine are having trouble creating a private host to race on. Both of us have tried hosting, both have failed. All default settings in both ends and what's most interesting is that we keep getting different errors.
When he makes the host and I try to connect I get "Host did not receive UDP packet". When I make the host and he tries to connect he gets "Connection timeout" or whatever it is in English, he's using the Finnish language option.
On my end I've tried port forwarding in the router, opening the ports in the software firewall, both alone and together, no results. Apparently this isn't a port issue as opening and closing them makes no difference.
Reading some of the older threads the usual conclusion seemed to be that UDP problems equal packet loss and a shoddy ISP but I doubt that as making a ping and packet loss test showed 7 ms of ping, 1 ms of jitter and zero packet loss for me, 23 ms of ping, 4 ms of jitter and zero packet loss for him. The odd thing is that both of us can connect to public servers but the connection between us doesn't work no matter what. I'm running Windows XP SP3 and he has Windows 7 Ultimate 64. I have a DSL connection with a router between the modem and the computer and he has a cable connection with the computer connected to the cable modem through a hub.
Any good ideas?
Me and a friend of mine are having trouble creating a private host to race on. Both of us have tried hosting, both have failed. All default settings in both ends and what's most interesting is that we keep getting different errors.
When he makes the host and I try to connect I get "Host did not receive UDP packet". When I make the host and he tries to connect he gets "Connection timeout" or whatever it is in English, he's using the Finnish language option.
On my end I've tried port forwarding in the router, opening the ports in the software firewall, both alone and together, no results. Apparently this isn't a port issue as opening and closing them makes no difference.
Reading some of the older threads the usual conclusion seemed to be that UDP problems equal packet loss and a shoddy ISP but I doubt that as making a ping and packet loss test showed 7 ms of ping, 1 ms of jitter and zero packet loss for me, 23 ms of ping, 4 ms of jitter and zero packet loss for him. The odd thing is that both of us can connect to public servers but the connection between us doesn't work no matter what. I'm running Windows XP SP3 and he has Windows 7 Ultimate 64. I have a DSL connection with a router between the modem and the computer and he has a cable connection with the computer connected to the cable modem through a hub.
Any good ideas?