lordhedgwich Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 My friend and i are trying to play but when i give him the ip and port it just says "connecting" and nothing we have waited for about 5 min. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMolestCats Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Dont alt tab and HAMACHI!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 +1 for Hamachi. The "issue" is that most home computers are linked through at least one, sometimes several, switches, routers, and forwarding ports. Anyone with an IT background can probably tell from the previous sentence that this is an area about which my knowledge is very, very, very limited. The gist is, you need to have a TCP/IP address recognizable from the outside world directly to your computer. You don't have one. You have several... Home router, router's outlet, your computer. (IT guy, see how poor my knowledge is?) You computer (ipconfig command line) only knows its internal address, the one within your home LAN. Hamachi somehow sidesteps all that. It's magic. OTOH, if you have multiple computers on a LAN and you're playing one another across that LAN, then the TCP/IP address you see when you enter ipconfig should work. Ken 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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