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Port Forwarding BS

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OK so I've got a quick question. First off, I'm having trouble with port forwarding. Here's the problem -- I can't host games in Starcraft on my laptop. Now I know you have to forward (open) port 6112 and I've done that successfully already. So I can host games and people can join with no problem while I'm playing on my desktop. However, when I'm on my laptop users are unable to join the games I create. I don't understand why though if it's still the same port and I'm still using the same router. Any advice?

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Because the local IP of the laptop and the desktop computer are different, therefore the port is forwarded to your desktop while you're playing on your laptop.

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What zhuinden said

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And if your laptop is on a wireless that's hooked to the same router that your pc is hooked to, that will cause latency problems as well even though the port is forwarded and firewalls turned off.

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Agreed with Zar, you must use a Cable, not wireless. Even my computer is on a cable and that's why I have no lat issues.

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I use my laptop, and on some private servers for starcraft, I can host fine.

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Is the connection to your laptop wired or wireless?

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Message me on AIM or MSN and I'll help you troubleshoot and fix it.

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Yay, I've got it working now. Thanks for the help guys! I appreciate it!

 

:'(

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It was just a matter of correcting my static IP address. I had port 6112 opened on both UDP and TCP using the IP address 192.168.1.102. So I checked the properties on my network connection and I had 192.168.1.100 as my static IP. So I just switched 100 to 102. Kind of a dumb mistake actually. But the odd thing is that uTorrent said it's port was open even though I was using a different static IP address. But yeah, that's all I did to fix it.

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o.0 thats odd...make sure your firewall is working properly

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