Phoenix is really good but!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ade_Law]

que pc vs mac thread

Ade

[Smoothound]

It wasn't intended to cause one...baiter boy

[Rab]

I have a netgear router and i had to open ports 9000 to 9005 UDP (like phoenix says)
once i did all work ok
i cant try it with anyone local because no one around here has heli`s or phoenix

[trebor27]

Works fine for me! To get things going always use the DMZ... Once you have things up and running you can turnt he dmz off and instead try forwardign onyl the ports needed for phoenix....

So...

1. turn on DMZ. Ensure the "DMZ" machine is your local IP address.
2. Make sure that ALL firewalls on your PC are off!!!! If for any reason you have any software that blocks "unused ports" then no one will be able to connect to your machine...
3. Create a phoneix sim session inviting ALL! The just play for maybe 10 minutes... I usually get multiple people connected int hat time! If no-one joins you then it is a problem at your end....

I really wouldn't go Phoenix bashing at this point though... They are good guys and do all they can to try and help... A lot of this can be out of thier control though... Perhaps if they started supporting uPnP some of the issues might vanish.... But even so....

Have you ever had anyone connect to a session you are hosting?

The other thing, much less likely but still possible, is that your ISP is blockign these inbound ports... Sometimes they do nasty things liek this... But it's much less likely... *(They usually block ports they see a lot of traffic on, so if the port selection Phoenix uses perhaps has a lot of P2P traffic on it. It might get throttled or blocked entirely....) But it's pretty unlikely...

I have no problems hosting a session, as many other seem to have no problem either... So I doubt it's a phoenix sim issue....


Rob

[Tim Procter]

Works fine for me! To get things going always use the DMZ... Once you have things up and running you can turnt he dmz off and instead try forwardign onyl the ports needed for phoenix....

So...

1. turn on DMZ. Ensure the "DMZ" machine is your local IP address.
2. Make sure that ALL firewalls on your PC are off!!!! If for any reason you have any software that blocks "unused ports" then no one will be able to connect to your machine...
3. Create a phoneix sim session inviting ALL! The just play for maybe 10 minutes... I usually get multiple people connected int hat time! If no-one joins you then it is a problem at your end....

I really wouldn't go Phoenix bashing at this point though... They are good guys and do all they can to try and help... A lot of this can be out of thier control though... Perhaps if they started supporting uPnP some of the issues might vanish.... But even so....

Have you ever had anyone connect to a session you are hosting?

The other thing, much less likely but still possible, is that your ISP is blockign these inbound ports... Sometimes they do nasty things liek this... But it's much less likely... *(They usually block ports they see a lot of traffic on, so if the port selection Phoenix uses perhaps has a lot of P2P traffic on it. It might get throttled or blocked entirely....) But it's pretty unlikely...

I have no problems hosting a session, as many other seem to have no problem either... So I doubt it's a phoenix sim issue....


Rob

Right!!!!

Sat at my computer now, Where do I access the DMZ to turn it on..

I have turned my firewall off although it doesn't recommend it.

Will create a session when we sort the DMZ out.

[jamiem]

what router do you use?

[Tim Procter]

what router do you use?

See post 5 of this thread.

Using a Speedtouch 585 router and since been looking in there.

NEXT>

[Smoothound]

Well even using DMZ on mine still don't seem to work...

[Tim Procter]

Well even using DMZ on mine still don't seem to work...

Just done a complete re-set of my router, Can join certain sites but fails on more than half of them..

TBH I am sure there is more than "us few" that is suffering the same problems.
I agree its maybe not the fault of Phoenix but there's something not just right somewhere.

[Smoothound]

I've had a session running now for 20 mins and no one has tried to join. My PC is open to the world on DMZ, 9000 ports are open as well just to be sure and yet no one can see me it appears...

[Smoothound]

When I go to session info what should I see?

[Tim Procter]

I got a session going now named spiderboy. Try that Phil.

[Smoothound]

Well yours works...

[Tim Procter]

Phil my mate opened that session up and I could see 2 flying, Obviously you and him.

I have just installed a Speedtouch ADSL modem and tried that instead of the router and just the same..

Will open the session up from my end now and see. Try again with me hosting the session..

[Smoothound]

I've got one open currently called Looneys but no can see it as its sat there doing nowt..