DM602 and Age of Empires 2

[Chivalry_Farseer]

i have a Netgear DM602 modem, which is currently set in router mode as i have adsl, my problem is that it won't let me play age of empires 2 online as i don't have the right ports open, could anybody tell me how to open the appropriate ports please.

thanks for any help

[Rand Dusing]

http://support.microsoft.com/default...NoWebContent=1

You need to have the DirectX ports opened to play games like AOE ROR AOK which use directx. I'm not exaclty sure how to open ports, is it the same as port forwarding? Read the link for more.