blaming firewalls

[acemon0]

Ok i see that the first and only thing people blame or say is the caus of a conection problem is the firewall now i can't get a LAN, IP or a gamespy multi-player game going. now every time i ask for help and even if i tell people that i took down my firewalls in ALL computers i still get every one telling me to turn off my firewalls. now i have NO problem playing every game on my shelf (over 150 pc games) on and/or through gamespy except D.L. And before any one trys to tell me to change this or that. just to let you know i have tried every thing that was told to me and more. even formating and installing every thing back on my computer with no firewalls. still i can't see a hosted game on any of my coputers. and port forwording on my gatway DSL don't help eather.
So my theary is that some of us got a game that won't let us play multiplayer yet oh well hope the next patch well fix it
If any thinks thay can salve my can't play a multiplayer game fill free to comment on a fix

[Emulated]

for window XP firewall all you need to do is uncheck the game in
start / control panel / windows firewall / exceptions -TAB
this site might help you also
http://www.geocities.com/northern_games/multi-player.html
if not look for more info on the web like this, its probly the only way you will get help

[acemon0]

for window XP firewall all you need to do is uncheck the game in
start / control panel / windows firewall / exceptions -TAB
this site might help you also
http://www.geocities.com/northern_games/multi-player.html
if not look for more info on the web like this, its probly the only way you will get help

thank you for trying... but unchecking the game well block the game... like i said i have tryed every thing and i do knoe about that web site!!! it didn't help and the firewalls are not whats wrong it's something in the game.............................................. ................................................

[Drene]

I can only tell you my experience. I use ZoneAlarm and I had to make sure the IP 'range' I was using was in the "trusted zone" before it would let me connect. I have played other LAN games and not had that problem, so I'm not sure, technically, why -but it worked after I entered the IP 'range'.