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Trouble with online gaming when using router

Last answer on Feb 8, 2009 8:27:29 pm GMT Red_Skull, on Jun 23, 2008 9:03:20 pm BST 
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I came across this forum in my search for a router problem I’m having, perhaps someone feels like helping me out a bit.

I have two personal computers, a ps3 and a wii all connected (by wire) on the same router.
The router is a sitecom wireless network broadband router 54g turbo wl-173.
The modem I have is a Motorola SB5100E SURFboard cable modem.

Now, when I connect all the things individually to the modem, they all work fine. However, when they are all connected to the router several problems arise:

- The wii doesn’t support online gaming (as far as I can tell). If I want to play Mariokart, it starts searching for other players, but times out after a while and displays the message: “disconnected from network during data transmission, error code 86420”.
Other online functions do work though, like the weather channel or the internet browser.

-The ps3 doesn’t support online gaming either (or not fully). Team Fortress 2 seems to work fine, but GTA IV has problems. I can pick a quick match of Single Player Deathmatch for instance. I enter some kind of waiting room where other players drop in until the game starts.. when this happens however I get kicked out.

-I don’t play online games with my computer, but all the other stuff works fine. Email, Internet browsing.. not a problem. Sometimes one of the computer can’t connect to the internet though. I think it’s always when the computer was switched on for the first time and tries to establish contact with the net for the first time.
When I manually reset the modem & router it usually solves the problem though.

I’m not much of a computer specialist, but I kinda deduced that the problem must be the router, ‘cause when I hook up all the stuff individually to the modem I don’t get these problems. So I tried to look up information about routers, and came across this thing called portforwarding. Figuring this might help me out I started by creating a static IP adress on PC no. 1

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a290/Rorschachinkblot/Router/static.jpg

The others are:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a290/Rorschachinkblot/Router/untitled.jpg

The IP adress of the router is: 192.168.0.1

With the help of http://www.portforward.com/ I forwarded the ports for the Playstation Network to see if it would solve my PS3 problems.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a290/Rorschachinkblot/Router/gates1.jpg

This didn’t work though, so I switched off the router firewall and the XP firewall of PC no. 1, again to no avail.

Okay, quite a story (prolly lost most of you here^^), but am I on the right trail or should I look into something else altogether?

Thanx,
R.

Configuration: Windows XP
Internet Explorer 7.0

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Shashank, on Jun 27, 2008 3:17:50 am BST

Hi!
yes your router firewall is blocking steamless data flow for your ps3. first of all you need to assign a STATIC IP ADDRESS to your PS3(it is very inp. otherwise portforwarding and DMZ configuration will not work) for this you can assign 192.168.0.200 to your PS3.

Now you need to configre
A> Port forwarding (Use the Static ip 192.168.0.200 and the game port no. which depends on the game you are playing.)

B> Also you can configre DMZ for that specific STATIC IP 192.168.0.200 (this will turn off the router firewall for your PS3.)

C> You can also configre QOS and port triggering if your router supports these configurations but please use that STATIC ip and the PORT NO. of the game its really imp.

that's it

ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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 chreva, on Feb 8, 2009 8:27:29 pm GMT

Um hello im havign about the same problem , see i no about all taht port forwarding and static ip
but see i have my ports forwarded and i have a dmz for my xbox's ip and
still canct connect tio certain things
so i looked up static ip's and i went through a turorial and it wont let me change one, liek whenever i do
my web browser doesnt work and. it said my dns servers were wrogn so i got teh rigth ones and it stil doesnt work

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ant, on Aug 21, 2008 8:47:39 am BST

For mr.shashank about your steps whats a static ip is that a adress id and we just copy that down with the numbers on our ps3

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