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Hello all, I just wiped out my Windows XP partition and replaced it with Windows 7. Unfortunately there's nothing I can do to get Brood War, Diablo 2, or Steam working because it appears Windows 7 is closing some of my ports for no apparent reason. When I try to connect to B.Net in Diablo 2, I am forever stuck on "Connecting to the fastest server". Steam will update fine, but when I log into my account, it says "Steam is having trouble connecting to the Steam server".
The problem is obviously my ports in some way or another. I go to canyouseeme.org and it says that my connection has timed out for my necessary ports.
Things I've ruled out: 1. It is NOT my router, all of the above worked fine in XP and still works fine in Ubuntu. 2. It is NOT the firewall, I have completely disabled both the Windows Firewall and Windows Defender. 3. It is NOT any kind of antivirus/spyware protector, I do not have any installed. 4. It is NOT my Internet connection or the Steam/B.net servers, because I can download Diablo and update Steam just fine, it's just that I cannot login my accounts.
Any help?
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if it's a wireless connection, check the protocol your OS uses to connect to the router. XP uses some outdated protocols.
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Thank you for responding, can you clarify what you mean? I am using a wireless connection, how do I check the router connection protocol?
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Did you change the local IP (192.168.x.xxx) of your PC in your router's port forwarding setting for 6112? Double-check to see it's the right one with ipconfig in cmd. When you reinstall your network driver or change to a different operating system, your router usually assigns a new local IP to it.
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On April 30 2015 09:01 Lazare1969 wrote: Did you change the local IP (192.168.x.xxx) of your PC in your router's port forwarding setting for 6112? Double-check to see it's the right one with ipconfig in cmd. When you reinstall your network driver or change to a different operating system, your router usually assigns a new local IP to it.
Thank you also, but I have not had the need to port forward anything for XP or Linux. I did just try it now in my router but it did not fix anything.
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On April 30 2015 08:57 LightSpectra wrote: Thank you for responding, can you clarify what you mean? I am using a wireless connection, how do I check the router connection protocol? -type 192.168.1.0 (that's the default access address for most routers) in your browser; enter name/password on prompt -go to wireless/wireless settings and check the "mode" in which it operates (it should be 11bgn mixed or something like that) -go to wireless security and set the protocol to WPA/WPA2 - Personal(Recommended) -also, i'm assuming here that your dhcp protocol is enabled/you have the correct IP -you could disable the security protocol just for some quick tests but you should not let it disabled)
(note: you would need to check the settings on your wireless adapter too - protocol type/encryption type/password if you don't know what you're doing, don't do it)
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On April 30 2015 15:17 xM(Z wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2015 08:57 LightSpectra wrote: Thank you for responding, can you clarify what you mean? I am using a wireless connection, how do I check the router connection protocol? -type 192.168.1.0 (that's the default access address for most routers) in your browser; enter name/password on prompt -go to wireless/wireless settings and check the "mode" in which it operates (it should be 11bgn mixed or something like that) -go to wireless security and set the protocol to WPA/WPA2 - Personal(Recommended) -also, i'm assuming here that your dhcp protocol is enabled/you have the correct IP -you could disable the security protocol just for some quick tests but you should not let it disabled) (note: you would need to check the settings on your wireless adapter too - protocol type/encryption type/password if you don't know what you're doing, don't do it)
OK--I checked all that, it all seems to be normal.
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You don't need to open ports for connecting to battle.net or Steam. Most likely you just have a bad connection or some other connection problem. Try a wired connection if possible, or try switching to Google DNS: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/
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On May 01 2015 20:07 R1CH wrote:You don't need to open ports for connecting to battle.net or Steam. Most likely you just have a bad connection or some other connection problem. Try a wired connection if possible, or try switching to Google DNS: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/
Do NOT change to google DNS if not from north America !it may slow things down a lot.
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On May 01 2015 20:52 maddogmcgee wrote:Do NOT change to google DNS if not from north America !it may slow things down a lot.
I even see google DNS being used by companies in Europe, so in Europe they're fine aswell.
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I don't know if this applies to your router, but when I portforwarded I bind it to some ip. If thats the case also with you then check if your pc has that ip as an static ip.
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On May 01 2015 20:52 maddogmcgee wrote:Do NOT change to google DNS if not from north America !it may slow things down a lot. Not sure where you got this idea from, it's anycasted so it has low latency from all over the world to your nearest Google datacenter.
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On May 01 2015 23:33 R1CH wrote:Show nested quote +On May 01 2015 20:52 maddogmcgee wrote:On May 01 2015 20:07 R1CH wrote:You don't need to open ports for connecting to battle.net or Steam. Most likely you just have a bad connection or some other connection problem. Try a wired connection if possible, or try switching to Google DNS: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/ Do NOT change to google DNS if not from north America !it may slow things down a lot. Not sure where you got this idea from, it's anycasted so it has low latency from all over the world to your nearest Google datacenter.
Maybe he lives in an isolated part of Australia, where the google datacenter has a much higher latency,compared to that of his own provider?
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It can cause all sorts of dramas for aussies. The biggest is messing with free downloads for certain sites from some ISP's. Iv'e read in the past it is also likely to mean i'm downloading from Akamai servers based in the US. If your on a cheap ISP in Australia and your trying to download large files from the US at peak times, your going to have a bad time. My understanding was all the Google DNS servers were in the US and Europe so people from Asia, the pacific, South America etc would have increased latency as well?
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Tried both of these, no luck.
On May 01 2015 20:07 R1CH wrote:You don't need to open ports for connecting to battle.net or Steam. Most likely you just have a bad connection or some other connection problem. Try a wired connection if possible, or try switching to Google DNS: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/
I tried the Google DNS, didn't seem to affect anything.
Thank you for the continued help everybody... any more ideas?
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Post your bnetlog.txt from your starcraft folder here
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make a new account (while on win7) and try to log in.
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On May 02 2015 13:36 xboi209 wrote: Post your bnetlog.txt from your starcraft folder here
When I try to log into iccup
5/6 11:46:23.611 Connecting to Battle.net... 5/6 11:46:23.681 Trying to load ws2_32.dll 5/6 11:46:23.681 querying gateway 5/6 11:46:23.771 searching for the fastest server 5/6 11:46:44.772 NOTE- ConnectThreadProc: connect didn't link with host (10060) 5/6 11:46:44.772 no servers found 5/6 11:46:50.794 Could not connect to Battle.net
On May 04 2015 03:21 xM(Z wrote: make a new account (while on win7) and try to log in.
You mean a new Win7 user account? Tried it, didn't change anything.
Thank you both again!
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Ah hell, I just got everything to work -_-
I set up a DMZ on my router. Why the hell do I need to do that for Win7 but not Ubuntu on the same computer?
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