See monk, that is what's driving me mad. I'm nearly positive I have the proper ports forwarded, and the right exceptions set up (I've already tried hosting with the firewall turned off and it still gives me that infernal message of failure). That said, I'm sure once I get in touch with you it'll be something really stupid, like I forgot to turn the modem on or something.
I have a netgear WR614v6, just did a check of the "status" and I didn't see a 192 ip address. I'm about at my wit's end here. I have no idea why the game doesn't want me to host. I'm a nice guy, I'd be a great host. I unplugged the router and plugged the cable modem directly to the PC. IP doesn't start with 192.
Hey Monk, I might have missed it in your guide, but how do I know if my cable modem is running as a router?
Yeah, I can throw the router into DMZ, but I find that a bit unnecessary given that I didn't need to do that for all my other games. It's using a hatchet to kill a housefly.
I'm in the same boat, I can't get hosting to work. I have the port properly fowarded and I just can't get anything cooking. I have no idea about the upnp, but it didn't come up when I checked the add/remove windows components. But if I DIDN'T have those installed, wouldn't that hork up the host of other games I have that work just fine? Guild Wars, WoW, Potbs, Steam, among others. I'm at my wits end, and I've reached the end of my technical knowledge.
