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  • 2 months later...

Tried it before (summer), got no connection to the zone (hell of clicks linked around and around and ...)

 

Last night I got the right key, found the zone, real existing persons playing online - woooow!

 

Clicked to a waiting game, game started - pop! - sitting back in the "waiting room".

 

Next: I was - didn't want to be - that one to launch the party. Shall I continue?

Clicked on launch - it launched,

with me an some well-known stupid computer enemies.

Nobody was able to connect on (sorry, I'm so sorry).

 

Next: someone got my IPX-number and he tried to find me.

Seems I am a shadow or some ghost or...

(I swear I've seen me in a mirror this morning!)

 

No error messages. I can play other multiplayer games like counterstrike (well I ne_ne_never play it).

 

Any suggestions about that problem?

:confused:

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Thanks Gold leader for that hint. But actually none of the possible filters and security-walls and whatever shall prevent evil to reach my PC is activated (I tested with lowest security and "all allowed") - it doesn't work.

** Zone support mailed, zone.com can only be played when the user has all admin-rights on his machine available, and also there must be open some special ports (five numbers)! **

My PC is part of an intranet (some offices and internet-computers connected to one lan and to the web, not restricted inside my windows-setup, but (eventually) restricted by the router, which coordinates all In-Out.

Therefore I have to wait until "the allmighty networker" is willing to spend some minutes for me and my little problem...

Meanwhile I clean my A-Wing and checkup batteries for future dogfighting... 8-[

 

Someone else reading this? Heard about the idea to get an editor for old "Rogue Squadron" Game? You can find a thread about at lucasforums!

 

So long.

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Just one sentence about ports: first lookup in ZoneCom help ended in opening some 5 ports - not working! Then, after asking "online-moderators" there, I got more port numbers (actually all free slots in my router software are filled now with needed (freed) numbers!!). So I'll say: ports, ports, ports.

 

And: different people told me, XWA is lagging all over the world, no chance to get it played without ghosts/lags? Sad but true.

 

That's it for now.

 

A. F. (alias Bhakar)

 

Edited...

P.S.: Some ideas I collected for enhancing conection speed...

- stop (close) unneeded (background) tasks/windows

- use a small size of your internet input buffer

- increase (if possible) server update-rate

- sounds/music always direct from harddisk (folder /wave)

- reduce graphics (slightly, on slow systems/graphic cards)

- try evaluation download of "befaster" (find it at:

http://www.ekremdeniz.com)

- do not create too much/big flightgroups at a moment

- sometimes, a new internet log-in can change to a better connection, depending on daytime and provider

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