A few days ago I had no problem conncting to my friends server, even tho he lives in the UK and I in the USA, now I do .

About the same time I did an WinXP update to the OS, this problem surfaced...

We thought at first it was a router problem in-route some where, but.. out of curiousity, he fired up his server on Win98 and I CAN connect okay . Tho he can not connect to me when I am the server.

Any one have this problem or a possible solution as to how he can use WXP to serve ? He didnt do an XP update btw, just me.

Also I can not serve / host... meaning... not one soul ever joins my server. My friend tries to , by typing in my server name, but its a no go . My server does show up on the master server list, but not on the list of servers in the game.

What was the update? If it was SP2 (which somepeople hate, but I don't know why), then you have more controls in the Windows Firewall. You may need to reconfigure it to work with LFS now.

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What was the update? If it was SP2 (which somepeople hate, but I don't know why), then you have more controls in the Windows Firewall. You may need to reconfigure it to work with LFS now.

I already had SP2 , this was thier latest Update... I have connected to him B4 okay.

I have even tried with my firewall off, even tried with my laptop too on my LAN.

which latest update? I haven't had a windows update, other than the monthly spam filter update thingy for Outlook, in about a month :S

Have you repeated the tests since finding a way for it to work?

The reason I ask if because theres been a lot of problems between a number of level 1 tier's today.

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Have you repeated the tests since finding a way for it to work?

The reason I ask if because theres been a lot of problems between a number of level 1 tier's today.

Just awhile ago I was able to connect to his server for the first time in 3 days, with him using WXP. Still dont know why on the no go days I could connect when he used W98

Still tho no one can connect to me when I act as a server....
I am in the USA..so maybe it is a router problem , just know that I better not buy the game way it is now

I have my server on as a dedicated server on my other PC , name is
ARIZONA, all black letters.

Would appreciate if a few who read this woulod try nconnect to me for testing.

I do list on the master server list under the Demo section.