He needs his own internet service. He could come over to ur house and LAN in tho .

Quote from Plastik8 :

Sorry to bring an old thread back to life, but I reckon having a Dynamic IP address (Given by your ISP automatically for most people) could be the problem......

Is this true?

I wanna be able to setup a private server so I can 1 v 1 with my mate.... Cane I do that sitting on a dynamic IP??

Yes.

btw I solved all my probs. My router it seems can only open ports for just one PC on my network, meaning.. I can not have multiple port fowarding services operating for more than one PC at a time. Even tho my router says they are on. Mine is a Westell Model 327w.

Quote from Scirocco :

SP2 in not the problem, some people just like to blame the OS when they have something configured improperly. Try setting your IP in LFS back to auto and make sure you're forwarding both the TCP and UDP ports.

thanks for trying to help out.
Unfortunatley I have auto on and both the TC and UDP are opened and fowarded . My W98 works great..it wouldnt work either if I didnt have ports opened btw.

Quote from Natej123 :

hi everyone, getting problems with hosting server , ive set my ports up so i can host because ive got a router, and put my i.p adress in the box that asks for it, when i host the problem is with people trying to join, i always get the message "new guest timed out" so im always lonely :P , i definitly know the port im using is correct and i should have a fast enough connection with a 3mb adsl connection (i hope).

cheers

Nate

Like I already state, have the same problem, however I may add, I can serve excellently using W98, its WXP w/sp2 thats the probs , have ports fowarded/opened, all fire walls off, even windows one.. XP suks for me still.. Might try Vista next.

Quote from SniperZA :

OK, I have a new router, and I can host with rFactor and GTR, forwarded ports 63392 and 29339 to the host machine, TCP and UDP, opened them all in my firewall, and the server is up - it's called South Africa and I can see it in the LFS Desktop - folks keep trying to connect and it keeps coming up with New guest timed out - any ideas ? Gonna leave it running for a while


Chris

Same here, all my guest time out, would being in the USA have a bearing? I have a fast DSL also.

I have same problem as you .

Quote from GeForz :

Are you hosting from your own LAN?
As you will never see server which use the same Internet IP as you. If it it on the server list on lfsworld it will show up ingame. But not on your pc. You have to join manually via the LAN IP.

I join it on LAN myself YES

Last edited by Sm00th, Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:32.

My server name is PitStopUSA
^1Pitstop^4USA

It shows on master server list, not on in game server list ?

My firewalls' set ok for the games default server port, even try it with firewall off too.

Router too has port opened as shown below :
Service DetailsService Name *LAPTOPType Port Forwarding Port 1Protocol: TCP
Global Port(s): 21-50000
Base Host Port: 21 Port 2Protocol: UDP
Global Port(s): 21-50000
Base Host Port: 21


Anyone any ideas ?
Some thing else I need to have done ?
Could be me in USA and a possible Internet router? I dont think so... been like this for days. No one connects.

Last edited by Sm00th, Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:33.

Quote from the_angry_angel :

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.

Quote from tristancliffe :

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.

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.