thank you for your prompt reply, i have done the ip config thingy and as you said it was a 192.168.2.* i set up a game and still my husband couldn't join. do we need to drop firewalls or anything? and i actually thought that instead of the ip we would of just typed localhost. if you think all this i...

:icon23: help my husband and i have a pc each running windows xp home, and we can both join a friend in an online game if he sets up, he is on bt broadband. my husband and i are on blueyonder broadband. both my husband and i can set up a game but no one else can join the game. also i cannot play aga...