Sorry I should have mentioned it before. But the settings seem similar. Could you maybe just give the XP instructions maybe and I could see if they are the same or similar in vista?

I am not sure how to check that in Vista. I can go to administrative firewall settings and check the protocol for quake 3 which is UDP and TCP (there are two quake 3's listed). I could change it to ICMPv6 or 4. But I am not sure what to do about it really. **EDIT** I checked and there are no outboun...

I tried two different ones. Both of them timed out every time. I can connect to them in the game, but not ping them. C:\Users\Nathan & Amanda>ping 216.12.96.42 Pinging 216.12.96.42 with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics ...

How can I check for that? Do you mean in the cmd prompt to "ping [IP Address] and get results? Or do you mean something else? Thanks for the reply.

I have just started to play this game again after many years. However this is my first time playing online without a crappy internet connection. I have a local high speed cable modem hook up but I am sad to report that my ping is usually about 180 +. I am not sure if there is something I should be d...

Ill give both a try. I hope it works.

In Quake 3 Arena I keep getting an error that says something like this " Punkbuster Server: CRITICAL ERROR: Cannot load *blah Blah8 pb/pbag.dll I checked the folder and there is no pbag.dll in my program files/quake3arena/pb folder. Since this error message loads like 50 times every second it r...