I’ve done quite a bit of lurking, reading, and searching through the forums so please forgive me if this has been talked about before; I have the best of intentions and just happened to miss the topic.
anyways…
I’ve been trying to get Kaillera to work, and I’ve followed all the tutorials, and according to them I should be able to play. Yes, portforwarding has been enabled, yes I’ve opened up port 27886, and still I’m having serious issues. When I host a game and send my ip to a friend (I’ve tried it with both my friend in town and my roommate) it just says “connecting” on their end. What I get on my end looks something like this:
Connection Request from Josh (nFB Alpha v0.2.96.72 [Jan 27 2008-14:13:59])… Waiting for reconfirmation…
Peer connectivity timed out
Peer left
reinitializing host…
(and I’ve tried joining both of them, we all get the same message)
and thats the story of my kaillera experience. I really hope there is some retardedly simple element or option I’m forgetting thats causing everything to screw up, but most likely its something I won’t be able to change. We’re using cable internet, so I don’t think internet speed is the issue here.
Anyways, thanks for reading this and if you have any advice or suggestions that would be greatly appreciated. :3
Is your trio of guys able to host or join with people outside of your small circle? Just wondering.
I’ve heard that some routers just don’t like to use certain ports for whatever reason. You can set them up correctly and everything, but stuff just won’t work on them. You could try using a different port number (and be sure to forward that port too) just as a desperation idea.
Yeah, my software firewall and windows firewall have both been disabled, and the port was opened, but I haven’t tried to join/host a game with anyone besides us 3 yet. I’ll give another port a shot, for some reason I didn’t think of that.
I’m playing third strike (or trying to, at least), not very good at it, but if anyone wants some games in on some easy prey I’d still be happy to play. Just contact me via AIM (the jaimeantonio) and if I can get this working then we’ll get some 3S going.
Also, have you forwarded ports for other applications and stuff in the past and had that work out correctly? I just want to know if we should even consider trying to troubleshoot the actual port-forwarding configuration on your router.
You sound fairly knowledgeable, but I just thought I’d make sure.
I opened up two additional ports but have yet to test them to be honest. So the problem may be fixed already, but the warning message still irks me:
Hosting Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future (Japan 990512, NO CD) on port 27884
WARNING: Hosting requires hosting ports to be forwarded and enabled in firewalls.
Does that usually come up, or is Kaillera detecting a problem from the get go? And yes, I did configure our router for Azureus about a year ago, and haven’t had problems. Hopefully its fixed already, but when I tried to join the only listed game in the waiting games list (I know no one uses that :p) it just sat at “Connecting”.
HOLY SHIT: After I typed that sentence I was just able to join a game and play, could it be that my problems are solved? Only time will tell.
Kudos out to djfrijoles and Raisin, thanks for helping.
Yep, its fixed now, we just had a game going and everything works fine! A little laggy between me and my friend, which is kind of weird since I had a virtually lagless match online today against some random guy in the waiting games list. I’m willing to bet its his connection though.
anyways, just contact me via aim, email, or shoot me a pm if you want some games in.
I can’t thank you guys enough, it probably would’ve never occured to me to change the port number, as obvious as that is in retrospect.
It sounds like it, especially since you were lag-free against someone else. Of course, the usual culprits in connection problems are like,
Iffy wireless connections… These can have a lot of packet loss and stuttering. Some are way more reliable than others. Consider trying the smoothing option.
Choked bandwidth… like if someone else at your place starts streaming a video or downloading something. Big, shared lines like at colleges can be notoriously bad.
Stuff going on in the background… even if you’re not aware of it, like your anti-virus program auto-updating or something like that.
I don’t play Third Strike, but you should have no shortage of competition for that game if you know where to look. Congrats on getting it going. :tup: