q3 multiplayer help

Post by **vjineo** » Wed May 17, 2006 12:26 pm

hi,

i have a group of friends with similar internet connection (ADSL 512 kbps). we all have q3 v1.32 installed. we want to play q3 multiplayer game over the internet like we used to do it over LAN. i created a server(not dedicated) and gave my dynamic ip address to all of them so that they connect to my server using it. the problem is they can't join my server, the message "Awaiting Game state" just remains there or they get something like "start TA directly". i later found out that this was related to NAT.

we tried port forwarding for our ADSL routers. Included the port "27960" but no change.

I saw an earlier post that was incomplete, where a guy wanted to play with his friends alone, just like us.

One of the solution suggested to him was to assign all incoming connections of port 27960 from WAN should be forwaded to the LAN ip address. in our case the LAN address is "192.168.1.2". the gateway address is "192.168.1.1". the WAN address keeps changing. I don't know where to find this setting. All i can find in router configuration is "Applications" where i add ports to be opened. there is "Filters" which has fields like "WAN range", "LAN range", "connecti0n type" and "Port range".

My router is "SmartAX MT882 Sterlite"

Pls help me.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Wed May 17, 2006 3:13 pm

are you running a Mod for quake 3? or are you just running Venilla Quake 3?

Also,do you or him have Team Arena installed?

Post by **Foo** » Wed May 17, 2006 3:34 pm

To make sure they're always connecting to the correct IP address, you can use a dynamic addressing service like dyndns. This lets you give them an address like 'myq3server.dyndns.org' and it will always point to your server.

As for sorting out your router, the 'filters' settings look like the right ones.
Set the LAN range to your PCs address 192.168.1.2
Set the connection type to UDP
set the port range to the ones you'll need for Q3 (27960 to 27970 off the top of my head for 10 clients, each one uses a progressively higher port).

For the WAN field, enter 255.255.255.255 which means 'any address'.

Post by **Tormentius** » Wed May 17, 2006 4:35 pm

Foo wrote: set the port range to the ones you'll need for Q3 (27960 to 27970 off the top of my head for 10 clients, each one uses a progressively higher port).

AFAIK, they don't actually need progressively higher ports inbound. I ran a server for a couple of years with just 27960 and 27950 (for PB) both using UDP.

vjineo: Make sure that your LAN IP isn't changing and use a dynamic service as Foo suggested. You'll either need to set your router to send updates to Dyndns when the WAN IP changes (if thats an option on your router) or you'll need to install a dyndns client on one of your LAN PCs. They have links to some clients on the Dyndns site.