Failed To Connect to Server

Valiance · Post by **Valiance** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:27 pm

Could someone describe how to open the ports or whatever please, im not a very technical person, and im trying to get people playing via youtube, and most have this problem

sr71 · Post by **sr71** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:15 pm

Valiance wrote:QUOTE (Valiance @ Apr 12 2009, 02:27 PM) Could someone describe how to open the ports or whatever please, im not a very technical person, and im trying to get people playing via youtube, and most have this problem

Assess your router (using the router's IP address in a browser). If you don't know your router's IP then open a command prompt and type ipconfig then hit enter. Your router IP should be the Default Gateway. Go to firewall settings, you should be able to open ports there. Hope this helps.

HSharp · Post by **HSharp** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:04 pm

Does depend on what router you have, but generally will be 192.168.1.0 or 1.1, then default username and password is admin and password if it asks you for them, if that's not the defualt password then you need to check the documentation that came with the router or ask whoever set the password.

Valiance · Post by **Valiance** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:19 pm

k thanks

FrodoB · Post by **FrodoB** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:27 pm

Following advice here and in similar topics, I've replaced my Avast AV with Avira (uninstall, reboot, install Avira). I set up two Special AP enties to pass info through the router to Alleg, both opening port range 2300-2400, one with incoming port 47624, the other with incoming 6073 (not sure if necessary, but worked for me - will experiment more later).

After all this, I was able to access the game server - at least the Newbie server. There are still some issue - if I conect to the game server, then exit and try to reconect, I get the 'Failed to conect...' message, and sometimes I get an error connecting to the free games lobby, but at least I am in sometimes and can now (hopefully) practice, and take the Cadet I training.

Settling in for some light reading on the wiki with some comfort food.

Thanks for all the help, and kudos to all who have maintained what appears to be the best game I never heard of till recently, and also apparently the best support group I've come across!!

Wasp · Post by **Wasp** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:31 pm

Valiance,

If ppl are having trouble connecting, please direct them to this helpline.

ogorass · Post by **ogorass** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:37 am

Thread creator's issue seems to be resolved, so I'm closing this.
Frodo: if any other issues arise, please create a new topic.
Valiance and others: make your own damn threads.