#Port Forwarding help Please

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river grove
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Hey, my mate and I are trying to play ROTR via CnC online and we keep getting a error failed to connect to other players. After much research I have seen people say port forwarding is required and such and I would like to know if this is the case. We tried Hamachi and that worked however we keep desyncing after about 10 mins. I have also followed some other threads on here but clarification would be great.

Any and all help would be apricated.

Thanks Stormagedon

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Steam

true shuttle
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yeah, just saw the tag as you were typing haha

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what version of ROTR are you using?

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And can you show me an image of the error?

river grove
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1.87 plus hanpatch

true shuttle
river grove
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its a fan made addon

unborn craneBOT
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You are encountering network-related issues. Please provide the following info so we can help you in the very best way possible (feel free to ignore any question you have already clearly answered):

  • Do you have Tacitus/C&C:Online installed?
  • What country do you live in?
  • What anti-virus do you have installed?
  • Do you know how to login into your router?
    • If so, do you know how to do port-forwarding?
  • Are you on a network that is outside of your own control like a network from university/work, hotspot etc.?
river grove
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I'm unable to add the picture as its too big but the wording is "error" then "Unable to connect to other players"

true shuttle
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it really helps

river grove
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And in answer to those other questions, Im in australia, I am logged my router, my port forwarding knowledge is poor.

true shuttle
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but do you know how to login your router to adjust its settings?

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And you do have C&C:Online installed and not GeneralsOnline right?

river grove
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Yes I am currently on the Port Forwarding page and I dont have a cnc online app but just logged in via Zero hour

true shuttle
river grove
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I did for Kanes Wrath a while ago but do I need for zero hour too?

mellow mesaBOT
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GG @river grove, you just advanced to level 1!

true shuttle
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sorry sorry

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you are right xD

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I'm doing 3 things at a time

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oops

river grove
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alg bro

true shuttle
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give me a minute

river grove
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no stress

true shuttle
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UDP port range 4321-65534 needs to be forewarded to your computer

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from the router

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can you show me an image of the port forwarding interface in your router

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that way I can help you

river grove
true shuttle
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the full range both

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and make sure that the connected device/Device ip address is actually the one from your computer/laptop

river grove
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I have the Ip set to the same as my ipconfig from cmd however when I google whats my IP its different

true shuttle
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It cannot handle a range of ports?

river grove
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must be haha

true shuttle
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ok, googled it

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it is stupid

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but keep the internal port option blank

river grove
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copy

true shuttle
true shuttle
true shuttle
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we simply cannot access it as it is not a public ip

river grove
true shuttle
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All correct, please apply

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nice job

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now to hoping it works

river grove
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Awesome i"ll try now, will my mate need to do the same?

true shuttle
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can never hurt

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let him drop in here too if you two still experience problems after this

river grove
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Cheers mate we’ll try today fell asleep last night. I’ll let you know

river grove
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Hey Mate

mellow mesaBOT
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GG @river grove, you just advanced to level 2!

river grove
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soz for the late respones but sadly portfowarding for both of us didnt work

true shuttle
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still exactly the same error for both of you?

true shuttle
river grove
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Yea still same error 😞

true shuttle
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unborn craneBOT
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