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It is a WiFi wireless internet connection. There is a reciever on my roof which is wired by UTP cable to a CPE box by my computer. A UTP cable goes from that CPE box to my computer. There are no routers here that I use to connect. I have turned off all firewalls/anti-virus etc while trying to get the games to work. Yes, my ISP had me set the 192.168.2.x number manually into my computer.

The IP 192.168.2.x is the actual IP number my ISP had me hard code into my network card, i'm not using a router. UTP cable goes from my network card to my ISP's CPE

Hi there, I signed up with a new ISP provider and since then have been unable to play online games (ie Everquest2, LOTR, Vanguard etc). My web browsing and downloading of files have no issues. LOTR can download the patches without issue but when I log in I cannot connect to their login server, with everquest it goes to login server first and I can't get connected. Here is what I see with my PC IP address assigned by my ISP is 192.168.2.x IP address when using a website to check my ip number 24.215.x.y When I do a traceroute to any of the game servers from my pc it can find the servers easily. When I do a reverse traceroute (using a website to trace back to my pc from the site) the path is lost 1 or 2 hops away from me. I am wondering what ideas people may have as to what this issue might be. Whether it is a port issue (i've sent the port numbers used by the games to my isp provider and they are going to check if they are open/closed) but I don't think that is the issue. Is it reasonable to think that the difference in IP's is what is causing my trouble, and if so what can I do to fix it. Thanks for all your suggestions/brainstorming!!! Tanya