router and gaming, grrrr

[CraxySerge]

I have a Netgear router, I just purchased it. I seen the port forwarding thingy there for playing games and I cant get it to work. It asks for the server's IP address and i play on a whole bunch of diffirent servers all the time. I play CS and DoD so how would I configure it? I havent been able to connect to a game since I got the router.

[DDR-PIII]

hmmm i didnt have to configure mine, I play CS and it just auto maticly forwarded the ports :) cept for when i wanna open a server i just enable dmz cuz im to lazy to forward the ports.

[anvil82]

lol in the server's ip, that's the local ip for the server YOU are hosting.

You don't need to forward ports, unless you are setting up a server.

[DDR-PIII]

Originally posted by anvil82
lol in the server's ip, that's the local ip for the server YOU are hosting.

You don't need to forward ports, unless you are setting up a server.

lol :rolleyes: exactly....

[Annoyingrob]

Yeah, dont worry about port forwarding unless you want to host a game. And if you want to host, just forward the game port (27015 in the case of CS) to the internal ip of your computer (192.168.1.xxx)

[CraxySerge]

So the reason my games are not working is not because my router is screwing with them. Ok thanks for the help guys :)

[Arkaine23]

If you;re trying to host games and port forwarding is not working for you, you can also try to make your computer be a DMZ. When DMZ, it won't be protected by the router's firewall, but it should allow you to host games. Just remeber to turn DMZ off when you're done hosting the game.