Problems hosting a game

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I have a message that keeps popping up shen I try to host a game that says that most people can't join because of firewall or router issues.  I shut off my firewall and I have a modem not a router.  What do I need to do?  Please help!
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Yeah same here, everything I find regarding hosting a game talks about routers, but I only have a modem...
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
You have to ignore that message, and see if people can still join your game. As far as I know, everyone gets that message and lots of people can still host.

Apparently you could also have a modem which has router like features, everything you'll need to know can be found in this guide, which is posted in a sticky on this forum somewhere. It also explains in here somewhere why the message pops up even though everyone can still join your games.

http://www.kiclan.com/Monk/Networking_and_SINS_by_the_Monk.pdf
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Someone gave me some good advice in an earlier thread like this. I was having the same issue where I was not hosting through a router and all of my anti-virus firewall software was turned off, disabled, or configured properly.

I was able to fix it by downloading a program called CCleaner and giving my drive a through cleaning. As it turned out, I still had some old symantec (norton) network drivers installed on my computer from when I had had nortan installed a few years back. CCleaner was able to remove them completely and I've been able to host ever since.