Firewall/Multiplayer game question

Randolph Carter · 01-17-2002, 12:39 AM

Is there a way to play online mulitplayer games without dropping your firewall? I run zapro and drop it every time I play aoeII is there some way you can enjoy gaming online and still maintain some level of protection?

PJK · 01-17-2002, 12:54 AM

What you would need to do is open up the ports for the game on your firewall. I don't know what the ports are that aoeII uses though.

Pat

Randolph Carter · 01-17-2002, 12:57 AM

Its on msn gaming zone so I think its a range in the 28800's dont quote me. However I was wondering about other sites such as battle.net ect plus Im not sure but do my ports have to open to the people in the game with me?

kcrispin3 · 01-17-2002, 01:46 AM

battlenet uses 6110-6113

many newer games otu there will have a faq or support question and most of those will contain a question on which ports a game uses.

chefde · 01-17-2002, 05:07 PM

I have regular ZA & there is a section in it where you can give the software rights to access the internet, can't tell you exactly how because I'm not home right now. It works for me in UT it should work for you.

Chef

Dudster · 01-17-2002, 06:40 PM

If you are the host for the game then I think you have to give the game server rights aswell as internet rights. Also, when I've hosted a game, I had to knock the Local and Internet security levels down to medium as otherwise, the ports were in stealth mode and no-one can see/connect to your game (I dunno if I had to lower the security level of the local zone to get it to work, I just did

anyone know?).

If you're not the host then I think you need to just give the game internet rights with no server rights and security settings on high.

To change a programs rights, open ZA and click on Programs though the game won't be on the list of programs if it hasn't tried to access the internet with ZA loaded yet, and you can't put programs into the programs list manually AFAIK.

Also, I've got no experience with MSN Gaming Zone so I don't know if that changes anything. GameSpy will let you play with a firewall but not host games.

I always have ZA Pro running when playing online and have never needed to know any port numbers or anything.