My Router has just packed up

[Made2Fade]

Just a thought but have any of you guys tried disabling your firewalls/anti-v when trying to connect or make your own sessions? To be honest its not something id like to do myself but Phoenix also recommend it.
Cheers
Lee

[Smoothound]

I run no firewall on my PC and always disable AVG just in case...

[Mike W]

Hmm whats this the case of the vanishing posts Eh Lee ......

[cambs flyer]

I've disabled everything in the past Lee and nothing made any difference, so I can only summarise the problems must be there end of the loop?

[Maxpoly]

I've tried without success to view sessions on Phoenix. I've done the port forwarding thing but am I right in saying this only works with a static IP address? Mine is dynamically assigned - does anyone know if this affects the Phoenix connects?

[cambs flyer]

I guess if the guys at "P" are having it bad right now we should remember all the times there gone beyond the call of duty to correct a single users problem, and have constantly tried to improve there product knowing different chip sets and graphic cards will react differently, so it's quite a balancing act they have to work within.

I think offering them our support and saying "OK chaps things aren't great at the moment, and we'll help anyway we can with there Beta upgrades" would be the best course of action.

Our RC flying world would be a far different one if we didn't have there continuing support & product, regardless of the internal issues that may have caused this to happen in the first place.

I have loads of past upgrade versions which improved the performance superbly, & enables you to fly the T500, B400, etc. if anyones interested.

[machasm]

I've tried without success to view sessions on Phoenix. I've done the port forwarding thing but am I right in saying this only works with a static IP address? Mine is dynamically assigned - does anyone know if this affects the Phoenix connects?

Port forwarding should be OK on a dynamically assigned IP address as the router will forward the ports from the external interface (dynamically assigned end) to your internal IP.
What is important is to ensure that the IP address you are using on your private LAN (normally something like 192.168.x.x) is the correct one.
You can set your PC to have a static IP in this range so that you can be sure you are forwarding the ports to the correct machine all the time.
Hope this makes sense.
I could go into more detail on NAT (network address translation) if you wish but it will bore the pants off most people.
Let me know if you want more detail Andrew.
Adrian.

[Maxpoly]

Thanks Adrian, I'm pretty sure I have the wrong IP address in there then. I've just read your other thread so I'll have a play tomorrow and reply in there. Incidentally I've also tried to get Combat Flight Sim 2 working to no avail so I know the problem is not with phoenix!

[Tim Procter]

As this thread has been raised again I will just add that since using this new Linksys router joining online sessions in Phoenix has been a 99% success.

Again whether Phoenix has been tweaking at a similar time to me purchasing the Linksys remains to be seen but its totally changed the way my sessions connect now.

[Sao]

I think they may have been tweaking I managed to get into quite a few sessions lastnight.
Using Linksys also BTW they seem to be the gold std in routers for ADSL

[robgt]

Linksys are a division of Cisco - which explains why they are so damn good

Cisco rules.
Cheers,
Rob

[Mike W]

I agree Rob ... Linksys are just stripped down versions of there bigger brothers ... Cisco run the net so cant be that bad lmao .....