Plutonium

Dss0 Radmin is a good alternative. But the ping issues though.

Dss0 It's a Custom Game. The game is running on port 4976. I even enabled DMZ on my IP and double checked if my IP is the same through cmd.

And I have forwarded both 4976 and 4977 in my router and my NAT Type in game says OPEN.

What to do next?

Dss0 No, this friend is on the outside and not on my network at all. I enabled everything you said regarding the Firewall and the rules (I added a New Rule for the 4976 UDP Port as well). What do you mean by correct internal IPv4?

And yes he is using my WAN IP. Plus he can connect to other servers as well.

Dss0 Hey, man. It's me again.

I invited another friend to play with us and he can't join my Custom Game or my server, even though he has both UPnP enabled and ports forwarded.

Any ideas what to do?

Alright. Cheers, mate!

Dss0 Just one last question. Does my Server Key stay static, i.e when once generated, remains the same forever? Or would I have to generate a new one every time I want to host a server?

Hey, presto! It works like a charm!

Anywho, I used connect 192.168.0.106:4976 on both PCs to connect to my server. Dunno how it works, but it works!

Thanks so much for your time, Dss0! God Bless!

Weird, tho. I can join his IP but he can't join mine.

He launches a Custom game and I enter his IP (192.168.0.104) and I instantly join.

But when I do the same thing he can't join my IP (192.168.0.106).

Nevertheless, I have created a Server to play on. One problem though. How can I join my own server? When I launch Plutonium, click on Play it just disappears after loading.

Any ideas?

Dss0 Yes, yes and yes.

PS: I can ping him now too as I had to allow some rules. But I can join his game but he can't join mine. Tried disabling the firewall on both PCs as well. No avail, it seems.

Some news of progress!

My friend is able to host a server and I can join in on his ip (.0.104) but when I host, he isn't able to join my session (.0.106).

What should I do?

Dss0 It seems that we can't connect this way either. His LAN IP and mine are different (mine is 106 and his is 104)

Even though I pinged my phone, him I can't ping his PC. It says Request Timed Out.

Any suggestions?

Dss0 Ah hell. I was giving him my Public IP like it says in the tutorial. Cheers, mate. I'll check with my LAN IP today and let you know.

Just another noob question. Shouldn't he be able to join me by Double Clicking my name in the friends list tab in Plutonium?

Dss0 Agreed. I'm an old user of Plutonium myself mate. Came back after some time to play again and found the interface has changed for the better and all.

I tried everything we used to do before to join each other's games. I'm usually the host and we did everything by the book. Xpartygo, connect ip and all.

But it isn't working. The thing is, my friend and I live in the same building and we have the same router (he doesn't have one) and our public IPs are same. Would this be the issue?

Good evening!

My friend and I both have UPNP enabled and are on the same internet connection (Laptop and PC), but can't seem to join each other's sessions by double clicking on our names. It just says joining session, then disappears.

Any solutions?