mightyhead

Well I never had hamachi even installed when were were having these problems, i was only considering it to see if it would have helped. After I got the new router my UL speeds have stayed the same but my DL speeds are about 50% faster (15Mb/s instead of 10Mb/s to the same speedtest location) ... I am blaming the router at this point.

Well I figured out my issue. I had an older "neutered" Linksys WRT54G v5 router (only 8MB RAM vs the v1-4 that had 16MB and only 2MB of flash memory vs the v1-4 that had 4MB, ran a Broadcom at 200Mhz). I replaced my router this weekend with a Linksys WRT160NL (32MB RAM, 8MB flash, runs an Atheros 9130 @400Mhz) and everything is humming along. Our PCs are wired too, so it wasn't a wireless issue. Hopefully this helps.

We only started messing with the port forwarding last night because of all the connection issues we have been having. So far it certainly hasnt made anything better, but with or without specifying port ranges and then forwarding them the game still will not connect. Teseer, when you play with 4 people behind the same router, does one of the 4 usually host? In general we are connecting to someone outside that is hosting, but i am wondering if i host if it would be any

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it wasnt that long ... = )

My wife and I are having the same problem, but worse. We usually only try and play with a couple friends (never more than 4 players total), and if just one of us plays it works fine. If we both try and connect, we might get it to work 1-2 games out of 10. I have disabled "Filter Multicast" and left my wife's PC at the default ports but changed mine to 6133 - 6153, then set up port forwarding on my WRT54G for each port range to the specific static IP address for each of us.&n