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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: EliotS on March 06, 2010, 06:20:20 pm

Title: 2 Players on same Network Lock-Out
Post by: EliotS on March 06, 2010, 06:20:20 pm

Home Network, Tremulous 1.2 works fine on each PC but will freeze player 1 when player 2 joins.
Windows XP
Do not have this concern with other Internet or Lan Games.

Title: Re: 2 Players on same Network Lock-Out
Post by: kevlarman on March 06, 2010, 07:08:50 pm

the short version is that your router sucks, you can work around it by starting one of the clients with a different port (+set net_port 12345 or something on the commandline)

Title: Re: 2 Players on same Network Lock-Out
Post by: EliotS on March 06, 2010, 08:01:47 pm

Thanks, pretty-much what I had concluded. Will set up hub and another another router for for player 2 pc.
Have not tried other command line settings.  Could you explane in more detail.  thanks

Title: Re: 2 Players on same Network Lock-Out
Post by: David on March 06, 2010, 08:23:12 pm

The client connects from port 30720 by default, and lots of cheap NAT's can't handle two pc's using the same source port.  Setting net_port to something else makes it use a different port and then it's fine.

Title: SOLVED Re: 2 Players on same Network Lock-Out
Post by: EliotS on March 06, 2010, 09:36:06 pm

Thanks.  Works.  Didn't know default. Used 27961 on player 2 pc.
Good wrt54G linksys router up till this point. What would you feel is better ?