Big Lar

This morning my provider disabled the nat on the SM ( Subscriber Module) and gave me a Public IP, I am now happy to report that this resolved all problems i was having with gameplay and my ping is up a few points also. Now he told me that he was giving me a public IP address free of charge as a good will gesture in order to relsolve the issue. Now my question is this; What are the adavntages of a public IP over a Private IP?

That sounds like it Dave If i plug it directly into the router that should work as well, Yes? When you say good firewall, would windows firewall be included in that list? (he said hopefully) I also tried to get the make and model of the box but its a bit high up for me so i will get a ladder in the next few days to have a closer look. Thanks Lar

Now dave here is how it connects. http://s245.photobucket.com/albums/gg50/thebiglar/th_PhotoForDave.jpg The connection comes from outside and is plugged into the black thingy on the left which is powered by transformer in the wall which provides 24v dc to the bottom, i then plug the cable on the right hand side into my computer. Now back to the problem at hand I emailed my ISP this morning and followed up with a phone call just there a minuite ago, because i am impatient. Anyhow he said that the problem lies with the fact that its the dish on the wall. Now i mightn't have this word for word so ye will have to forgive me if its all upside down. I think he said that the dish on the wall (The SM he called it) issues my router with an IP address, so i gather that the SM on the wall is issued an IP address from the relay station. so what he said that he is going to do is to make the relay station issue my computer directly with the ip address that would have been issued to the SM. Can anybody make head or tail of that???????????????????????????

No bother dave The pictures are a bit on the large size because i said to myself if you wanted to zoom in or anything the quality would be there. The guy that installed told me thats its all motorola gear that they use and its what the american military use. Well at least that's what he told me. Also please forgive the green on the shoots, I must power wash the house LOL http://s245.photobucket.com/albums/gg50/thebiglar/th_DSC00497.jpg http://s245.photobucket.com/albums/gg50/thebiglar/th_DSC00496.jpg Oops looks like photobucket resized them, i cut a bit out of one of them. http://s245.photobucket.com/albums/gg50/thebiglar/th_new.jpg If you are really intrested i will take a better shot tommorrow. Or try this link http://s245.photobucket.com/albums/gg50/thebiglar/?action=view&current=DSC00497.jpg Regards Lar

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@ Seth, Thanks for your reply No Safe Mode with networking does not make any difference and both modems are different ISP's @hardware_dave, I cannot understand how you find it weird that i am 12 miles from the closest town and have a line of site for wireless. Have you considered that i may live at a higher altitude than the town is. Any idea how i should compose the email to my ISP in techinical terms as i am sure that someone in the office will recieve it and have no idea what i am on about. Thanks for the help Lar

Hi dave thanks for your reply. Looks like you are using it with an ethernet modem, whats the make/model ? I dont know what exactly what you are on about here i can only guess that you are refering to the line comming into the router, so i will explain. I have wireless internet here in my house, Basically what i have is an antenna/box on my outside wall connected to the WAN port of my router Maybey this link will make it clearer http://www.azotelocean.com/faq.php Can you try pinging one of the game servers ? Yes i can ping any one of the game servers and i can join a game by manually adding the address of the server using ADD SERVER server button that is seen below. This has been the way that i have been playing all along. But if i use the mobile broadband connection that i have http://www.three.ie/broadband/index.htm And connect it like i have done in the above post i can join a game through the game multiplayer menu. http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg50/thebiglar/BFVAzotel.jpg?t=1200145587 I have had broadband installed at home for the past six months and this is the way that i have been joining games since i have had it, to be honest it has just been a bit of an inconvienence more so than a problem until now. ( i had always put the problem down to something at my end) But at christmas my wife bought me Call of Duty 4 as a pressie and i have been totally unable to connect to any online game with this whatsoever using the broadband connection that i have at home. however i can connect to the game using the mobile broadband. The problem with the mobile broadband is that the latency is very high which is not suitable for gameplay. Also i was talking to a guy last week who told me that COD4 uses the UDP protocol rather than the TCP protocol which prompted me to look further into the problem. I hope that the above terminoligy is correct. Once again, thank's to all at freepchelp for yere ongoing efforts and if there is any more information that you need please do not hesitate Lar

Yes, sorry about that But i am afraid i cannot make the images in the first post any larger than what they are as i have deleted them from my pc, but the images in the second post i have changed, which i think is the more important post. I can see your point as they make sense to me because i know what i am looking for but for another person they are too small. If anyone else cannot understand them please let me know and i will take some more screenshots and repost. Many Thanks Lar

He He He, I know that this reply is 2 years late but i only found the site this morning so ye will have to forgive me. I would have thought that if one was looking for free advertising to get traffic onto the site that a article in a newspaper would help. For instance would it be a good idea to approach a newspaper with the idea for a help column and get some of the simple and successfull threads on the forum published, this way people could see what ye are about and the site would get hits through that way. I say simple threads/problems as those sort of topics would be relative to the majority of computer users. Regards Lar.

@ RandyL Thank you for your fast response, Yes, COD4 is Call of Duty. Yes, Battlefield Vietnam is a game played mostly online. Yes, xfire is a gaming portal that i use, It scans the pc for games and brings up a list of online servers that are available. Also if I have friends that also use xfire I can see what server that they are on and join that particular server through xfire as it will launch that particular game and connect to the server automatically. I am using Router: Trendnet 432-BRP PC Manufacturer : Dell Computer Corporation Mainboard : Dell Computer Corp. 02Y832 Chipset : Intel i865G Processor : Intel Pentium 4 @ 3066 MHz Physical Memory : 2816 MB Video Card : Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT 512MB DDR2 DVI TV - AGP Hard Disk : Hitachi (250 GB) Hard Disk : IC35L060AVV207-0 (40 GB) DVD-Rom Drive : DVDRW USB H16X USB CdRom DVD-Rom Drive : _NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A Monitor Type : Dell Computer DELL E171FPb - 17 inches Monitor Type : ProView Technology 565 - 15 inches Network Card : Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network Connection Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2 DirectX : Version 9.0c (July 2007) Antivirus: AVG Free edition Firewall: Windows Firewall However i dont think that it is a hardware/software problem on my end as this morning i devised another test which would rule out any problems on my end i think. Step 1. While connected to my Internet Provider I ran Battlefield Vietnam and tried to refresh/update the server list in the multiplayer menu, i took a screenshot of that and its below. The screenshot shows 1 server on the list after i had refreshed/updated it. http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg50/thebiglar/BFVAzotel.jpg?t=1200145587 Step 2. I setup my laptop and connected to the internet using my 3 mobile broadband via usb, then i setup that internet connection for internet connection sharing, I then connected the Ethernet port of my laptop to the WAN port of my router using a patch lead and clicked the DHCP Renew Button where my laptop issued a new ip to the router. Step 3. As i had my desktop computer connected to the router I the ran the Battlefield Vietnam game once again, This time when i refreshed.updated the server list i got a 203 servers on the list, once again the screenshot is below. http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg50/thebiglar/BFV3mobileBroadband.jpg?t=1200146277 The Results The results of the test seem to show that there is a problem of some sort with the broadband on my Internet Provider's end. I am fairly confident of this, as by connecting the laptop to the WAN port of the router i am creating the same connectivity envoirnment with the 3mobile broadband as is with my Internet Provider's broadband. I should also point out that no firewalls or antivirus were switched off in any of the computer's while the tests were ran.

Hi everybody, I said to myself that i would throw this one out there to see if anyone can answer it. I have been unable to play COD4 online since i have gotten it, because when i click on the join game option: No servers are shown on the list and the only message i recieve is a flashing message on the top left-hand corner of the screeen saying Waiting from response from the master server. So i uninstalled and reinstalled, added patches and removed patches, uninstalled and reinstalled the network card, bypassed router, updated drivers, firewall on and firewall off but nothing seemed to fix the problem. I also have the same problem to a lesser extent with Battlefield Vietnam whereas when i try to join a multiplayer game i can only see about 10 or so servers with all filters off, But i am able to connect through Xfire so that dosent really bother me. In the time before i was able to get broadband (Because i live out in the countryside, miles away from civilisation, well 12 miles to the closest town) i had a data modem which connected to my pc or laptop using a usb cable, It was a fairly good service but the latency was very high and i was unable to play games on the net with it and in the evening times the connection got very slow because of the ammount of users, But i still use when i am out and about for work purposes. So anyhow yesterday i disabled my broadband connection and connected to the net via my usb modem anb started COD4 and low and behold i was able to see all servers online through the multiplayer window, Finally a clue ! The next question; Could it that my computer is faulty? So i decided to install COD4 on my laptop Now i feel that i should tell ye this before i start, My laptop isint very sexy, It has on board graphics and 1.6Gz pentium processor. so there was not a chance in hell that i could play COD4 on it but i installed it anyway and i also installed Xfire because when i ran xfire i could see the server list for COD4 on it. But when i ran xfire all that i got was 15 servers out of a possible 7000 to come up on the list, so i disabled my broadband connection and connected using the data card and i was able to view 4000 servers out of 7000. Below are 2 screen shots that i took from xfire with the server list, one with the usb data modem connection which has the long server list and the other with my broadband connection which has the short server list. http://lh6.google.com/grath.killian/R3uoluK0LYI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/l4HK344BnRQ/s144/xfire%203modem.JPG http://lh5.google.com/grath.killian/R3uVreK0LWI/AAAAAAAAADo/Wt1mPy2IZ0M/s144/xfire%20broadband.JPG At this point i feel that it is my Internet connection that is the problem and if it is how am i going to explain this to my Internet Provider in a language that they will understand. Or could there be some other problem. Phew, Its a long post isint it. Sorry i should have also added that my broadband connection is 1Mbit and the usb modem operates around 768kbit The 1mb connection is fed through the WAN port of the router and then dispersed from there