I am having trouble connecting to Ironclad. The most obvious symptom is a total inability to connect to the lobby, period. I put in my username and password and when I click login or hit enter it instantly gives me the error "Network Error: Disconnected from Ironclad Online". Same thing if I try to recreate an account. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit. Here is a rundown of everything I have done:
I have completely turned off both UAC and the Windows Firewall. I have tried both with and without UAC and/or Windows Firewall.
I have completely disabled Windows Defender, in control panel and in Services.
I have uninstalled my antivirus (Avast).
I disabled the Windows Firewall service as a drastic test solution, but tried all of this with it running as well.
I followed Monk's instructions and set up port forwarding in my router for 6000, 6112, and 7000.
When that failed I removed my router and connected directly to the cable modem.
I have run tracert and have a good route to ico.stardock.com (this is the tracert with direct modem connection, but it worked fine with router in place as well):
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\***>tracert ico.stardock.com
Tracing route to ico.stardock.com [38.98.152.153]over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 6 ms 7 ms 5 ms 10.247.0.1
2 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms mgmt-ha1-in.htsp.cablerocket.net [206.255.240.146]
3 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms border.htsp.cablerocket.net [206.255.240.129]
4 17 ms 19 ms 17 ms 12.86.20.21
5 19 ms 19 ms 17 ms cr84.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.138.10]
6 21 ms 19 ms 19 ms cr2.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.123.18.250]
7 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms ggr6.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.138.105]
8 19 ms 19 ms 17 ms 192.205.36.182
9 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms te1-1.ccr02.dfw01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.129]
10 32 ms 29 ms 30 ms te0-3-0-2.ccr21.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.222]
11 42 ms 41 ms 42 ms te0-2-0-3.ccr21.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.7.186]
12 49 ms 49 ms 49 ms te3-2.ccr01.dtw04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.31.21]
13 112 ms 57 ms 52 ms vl3804.na01.b015487-0.dtw04.atlas.cogentco.com [38.20.43.2]
14 51 ms 50 ms 51 ms stardock-corporation.demarc.cogentco.com [38.99.219.166]
15 54 ms 50 ms 49 ms 38.98.152.153
Trace complete.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled Sins and Entrenchment (both and plain vanilla Sins) using Impulse.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled Impulse, then uninstalled and reinstalled Sins.
I have manually deleted everything related to Impulse and Sins from both the ProgramData folder and the AppData\Local folders, then reinstalled Impulse, then Sins.
Sins and Entrenchment report versions 1.191 and 1.051 respectively in Impulse and in the lower right corner in game.
Running netstat -aon 1 and attempting to connect shows a SYN_SENT state for the Ironclad connection, but never seems to move to ESTABLISHED.
Running the game as Administrator and in various compatibility modes did not resolve the issue.
I am at a total loss at this point.
Anyone have any ideas I have not tried?