online racing problem

kpayne89 · Post by **kpayne89** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:10 pm

ok, another problem...i did get my connection back but it is screwing up my connection with racing. tonight, i hadda keep reconnecting cause i coundnt see others talk and they kept double posting when they did, like, HELLO? HELLO?. did that in chat and during game. also, when someone left and we went to multi-player screen, the person who left is still there. and it said my status was UNNKOWN. it happened after all this, it also said I left when i didnt. please help. my connection is screwed up and i didnt do a darn thing to it

Post by **Phineus** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:28 pm

Remember this topic?

viewtopic.php?t=3710

The problem is the same thing. If the local IP address to your computer has changed for any reason - even just a reboot can do it if you use DHCP - then the router settings need to be updated to reflect that change. Whoever helped set you up before should be able to fix it again quite easily.

kpayne89 · Post by **kpayne89** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:50 pm

ok, i understand now but all i want to know is when it changed my ip, i gotta make it as DMZ Host again? if so, shuld only take a minute to fix

and..........100 POST WOOOOOOO!

Post by **Phineus** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:35 pm

Yes. Or, at least, that's what it sounds like to me. Just reset the router DMZ and you "should" be ready all over again.

kpayne89 · Post by **kpayne89** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 8:26 pm

phin, i need your help lol, it did it again BUT...we did try to put it back to its orginal ip and it wouldnt do it, we couldnt fix it. u know what to do?

Post by **Phineus** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:17 pm

Like before, you have to find out what IP your computer is now using. On this page, more than three quarters of the way down, you'll find "Troubleshooting 4.1 - Router Setup - DMZ Host" which will explain how to get your ip number.

http://mtm2.com/~mtmg/zone.shtml

You can also get the ip number from the command line or by using microsoft's utility.

ipconfig from the command line
http://tweakxp.com/article37080.aspx

IPConfig Utility
http://microsoft.com/windows2000/techin ... pcfg-o.asp

If you want to solve these problems once and for all, you can think about turning DHCP off in your router and assigning a static ip number to all computers on the network.

kpayne89 · Post by **kpayne89** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:24 pm

thanks for helping each and everytime. i hate when it says its renewing my ip address then my computer screwes up..and tonight, it got me good in racing....i had trouble seeing people type, they were double posting, and some wasnt even moving. even tho i fought back, i won racing beating greeny but when we BTM, it started to get me. i got lefted in multi-player 3 times in a row...so they wouldnt let me try again, so i had to leave. i just hope i can get this thing over once in forall before PPRL starts, if i dont get this fixed before saturday, i wont make PPRL.... [dend]

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:55 pm

I will sub in PPRL if you need me

kpayne89 · Post by **kpayne89** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:43 am

another stupid problem and im getting sick of this lol.....anyways, i got my ip changed back to what it is suppose to be but this time, i cant click the games name. i go try to join and still have some issues but if i cant even join the game, theres something wrong lol, but, u think if i changed to port-forwarding it would help any?