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I'm not sure which Netgear router you have, but here is a link to a tutorial on how to setup port forwarding for Halo on a Netgear DG834G.
Even if you don't have the same model, this should help you figure out how to do it on your router.

http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Netgear/DG834G/Halo.htm

bassy6 said:
Um oh yeah. I use a broadband router. Maybe that is my problem. Some1 else told me the other day that becuz I use a wireless router I have to do something called NAT forwarding?? When I go into the router settings online(its a Netgear Router so I think u have to type in the Netgear IP address which is soemthing like 192.168.0.1 or w/e and put the password etc. Then I see firewall settings but it just has something that says "Outbound services" Allow Always (default settings) and says WAN Users "Any" WAN Servers "Any" Log "Never". And has a tool bar which alows me to make changes like "add" delete" edit etc.

Next it has the exact same set up except this time it has "Inbound Services" and has "Block Always" (default) LAN Server IP address "any" WAN Users "any" Log "Never, then gives me the option to change these and so on.

I guess I'll try and see what this NAT forwarding is 1st b4 I try it but any info is appreciated :cool: Just wanna figure out how I can host cuz as I said b4 my internet connection is pretty fast. I'm not sure but I think 16mb is faster than T1 which u need to host 16 ppl in Halo. So if it is faster that'll be easy on the ears of people yelling lag lag lag!! every 5 mins even when its a T1 connection. Thx :D
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Count me in and I have a Halo server running

Count me in too! Will you be announcing a server address?

BTW, I run a Halo server at home running on an HP PC. All are welcome to join it for play, espacillay Mac users. Simply enter Multiplayer mode in Halo and then connect via Direct IP at any of these addresses:
gaymer.game-host.org
papinet.homedns.org
robocub.homedns.org​

Enjoy! :cool:
 
Xblaze plugin?

Does anyone have the Xblaze Adium plugin? The Xblaze website is down :confused: and I can't locate the download anywhere.
 
robocub, what kind of bandwidth do you have where your Halo server is located?


robocub said:
Count me in too! Will you be announcing a server address?

BTW, I run a Halo server at home running on an HP PC. All are welcome to join it for play, espacillay Mac users. Simply enter Multiplayer mode in Halo and then connect via Direct IP at any of these addresses:
gaymer.game-host.org
papinet.homedns.org
robocub.homedns.org​

Enjoy! :cool:
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budpam said:
robocub, what kind of bandwidth do you have where your Halo server is located?
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Hi budpam, I have TW cable internet in NYC, supposed to be 7mbps down / 512kbps up. Usually is a bit less than that in real world. I limit to 8 players because more than that tends to slow the server down for gameplay.
 
budpam said:
I'm not sure which Netgear router you have, but here is a link to a tutorial on how to setup port forwarding for Halo on a Netgear DG834G.
Even if you don't have the same model, this should help you figure out how to do it on your router.

http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Netgear/DG834G/Halo.htm
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Darnit. I tried every step of that tutorial. Did everything and still blah. People still say the server say "unable to join game" and has no ping on the side...... Will I ever be able to host!! lol Why have 16mb Broadband and play a Multiplayer game and not be able to use it. OMG! Well my router is a NetGear DG834GT. I dunno what to do, and Budpam man thanks so much for trying. I was so excited when I saw that...until the end results lol. Thanks though. If any1 has any other ideas that'll be great. I just wanna be able to host. Its annoying to know that others can do something you can't. Peace :p
 
robocub said:
Count me in too! Will you be announcing a server address?

BTW, I run a Halo server at home running on an HP PC. All are welcome to join it for play, espacillay Mac users. Simply enter Multiplayer mode in Halo and then connect via Direct IP at any of these addresses:
gaymer.game-host.org
papinet.homedns.org
robocub.homedns.org​

Enjoy! :cool:
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nice server names LMAO
 
bassy6 said:
Darnit. I tried every step of that tutorial. Did everything and still blah. People still say the server say "unable to join game" and has no ping on the side...... Will I ever be able to host!! lol Why have 16mb Broadband and play a Multiplayer game and not be able to use it. OMG! Well my router is a NetGear DG834GT. I dunno what to do, and Budpam man thanks so much for trying. I was so excited when I saw that...until the end results lol. Thanks though. If any1 has any other ideas that'll be great. I just wanna be able to host. Its annoying to know that others can do something you can't. Peace :p
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Its gotta be the router, I had the exact same issue until I turned on port fowarding for halo. I have an older linksys so the interface is different from what you have on your netgear. It took me several tries before it worked right.
 
Are you sure you are forwarding the TCP and UDP ports that your version of Halo is using? Open Halo and start your server and look at which port(s) it is using so that you can make sure you are forwarding the right ones on the router.:apple:


bassy6 said:
Darnit. I tried every step of that tutorial. Did everything and still blah. People still say the server say "unable to join game" and has no ping on the side...... Will I ever be able to host!! lol Why have 16mb Broadband and play a Multiplayer game and not be able to use it. OMG! Well my router is a NetGear DG834GT. I dunno what to do, and Budpam man thanks so much for trying. I was so excited when I saw that...until the end results lol. Thanks though. If any1 has any other ideas that'll be great. I just wanna be able to host. Its annoying to know that others can do something you can't. Peace :p
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budpam said:
Are you sure you are forwarding the TCP and UDP ports that your version of Halo is using? Open Halo and start your server and look at which port(s) it is using so that you can make sure you are forwarding the right ones on the router.:apple:
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ok maybe I just got confused last night as it was midnight here in UK lol. But I think on that manual it said something about after making those changes click submit on the NAT table, but this router doesn't have NAT. And also the IP I was sending it to was the Static IP.....as that what it had said for me to type in. I also have on the WAn setup menu a button that says something about DMZ? and taking it off may be taking a risk and stuff. Usually I figure things out myself but this is a mystery ^^. Yeah and also I forwarded the port to 2302 which is what I use. Maybe I put the wrong static IP in. Cuz when it said write ur current IP adress after doing it manually I was confused whether it meant the new IP address they said that is meant to match my router's IP(almost) And I didn't know whether to put the old IP or the new 1. I think I tried both. I also tried with ethernet cable in and wireless as I all use is my 2.0ghz Macbook Core Duo. I dunno lol. I'll try again but I know my router doesn't talk about NAT and somewhere in that tutorial it mentioned NAT. Its the newer version of that router but it looks like similar settings so I'll try again. Thx and Peace :apple:
 
There are 3 ports that you need to forward, 80,2302, and 2303. Go back to the tutorial and follow it, except I wouldn't do it in the order they recommend, because they are going back and forth between Services and Firewall Rules. I would add/define all 3 services first(Halo1, Halo2, and Halo3(or whatever you want to call them)-which are just telling it which ports and which protocols you are going to use. Make sure you choose both udp and tcp for each port when defining these services...so if you can't choose both udp and tcp at the same time then you would need to add 2 service definitions for each port, meaning you might have Halo1,Halo2, Halo3, Halo4, Halo5, and Halo6 as defined services. Then I would add all 3 Firewall Rules next for each service that you defined(Halo1, Halo2...) I think you only need them added for inbound services, but I would add them to both inbound and outbound services.
You would start by choosing Halo1 as the Service, ALLOW always as the Action, your computer's ip address that is running the Halo server for the Send to LAN Server(something like 192.168.0.100), Any for Wan users, and Never for Log. Click Apply and it should bring up another page showing the NAT rules-if it shows the settings you just added for the Firewall Rules, go ahead and click submit and it should add it to the NAT table-if it does not show what you had just added as a Firewall rule, add it and then click submit. Do this for every Service you created in the first step. That should be it-close it and run Halo.

You could use DMZ and that would be the easiest, but it will open up all the ports to whichever ip address you choose(the computer ip running Halo). If there is nothing else on that computer and it is only used for Halo it shouldn't be a problem, but if you use it for other things it would be risky.

Make sure you don't have a Firewall running on the computer that is serving Halo, if it is, you will have to configure it to let traffic through on the Halo ports on it as well.

Hope this helps.

If you read all the way through the tutorial before you try it again, you will see what you are actually doing and it should be easier to understand. I don't personally like the way you have to forward ports on that router-it seems like they could just have a port forwarding section where all of the settings are in one place. Oh well, they didn't ask me, lol:D

bassy6 said:
ok maybe I just got confused last night as it was midnight here in UK lol. But I think on that manual it said something about after making those changes click submit on the NAT table, but this router doesn't have NAT. And also the IP I was sending it to was the Static IP.....as that what it had said for me to type in. I also have on the WAn setup menu a button that says something about DMZ? and taking it off may be taking a risk and stuff. Usually I figure things out myself but this is a mystery ^^. Yeah and also I forwarded the port to 2302 which is what I use. Maybe I put the wrong static IP in. Cuz when it said write ur current IP adress after doing it manually I was confused whether it meant the new IP address they said that is meant to match my router's IP(almost) And I didn't know whether to put the old IP or the new 1. I think I tried both. I also tried with ethernet cable in and wireless as I all use is my 2.0ghz Macbook Core Duo. I dunno lol. I'll try again but I know my router doesn't talk about NAT and somewhere in that tutorial it mentioned NAT. Its the newer version of that router but it looks like similar settings so I'll try again. Thx and Peace :apple:
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budpam said:
There are 3 ports that you need to forward, 80,2302, and 2303. Go back to the tutorial and follow it, except I wouldn't do it in the order they recommend, because they are going back and forth between Services and Firewall Rules. I would add/define all 3 services first(Halo1, Halo2, and Halo3(or whatever you want to call them)-which are just telling it which ports and which protocols you are going to use. Make sure you choose both udp and tcp for each port when defining these services...so if you can't choose both udp and tcp at the same time then you would need to add 2 service definitions for each port, meaning you might have Halo1,Halo2, Halo3, Halo4, Halo5, and Halo6 as defined services. Then I would add all 3 Firewall Rules next for each service that you defined(Halo1, Halo2...) I think you only need them added for inbound services, but I would add them to both inbound and outbound services.
You would start by choosing Halo1 as the Service, ALLOW always as the Action, your computer's ip address that is running the Halo server for the Send to LAN Server(something like 192.168.0.100), Any for Wan users, and Never for Log. Click Apply and it should bring up another page showing the NAT rules-if it shows the settings you just added for the Firewall Rules, go ahead and click submit and it should add it to the NAT table-if it does not show what you had just added as a Firewall rule, add it and then click submit. Do this for every Service you created in the first step. That should be it-close it and run Halo.

You could use DMZ and that would be the easiest, but it will open up all the ports to whichever ip address you choose(the computer ip running Halo). If there is nothing else on that computer and it is only used for Halo it shouldn't be a problem, but if you use it for other things it would be risky.

Make sure you don't have a Firewall running on the computer that is serving Halo, if it is, you will have to configure it to let traffic through on the Halo ports on it as well.

Hope this helps.

If you read all the way through the tutorial before you try it again, you will see what you are actually doing and it should be easier to understand. I don't personally like the way you have to forward ports on that router-it seems like they could just have a port forwarding section where all of the settings are in one place. Oh well, they didn't ask me, lol:D
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OK. B4 I do this again I just want to be clear on everthing. I think the thing I'm confused about is the Static IP. It says to type the Static IP in the LAN section when u are adding the rule. So is the Static IP the address that Halo is going to? I'm confused. My Halo Server IP is 192.168.0.2:2302. I'm afraid to leave this info incase 1 of u try to hack me lol but I can't be bothered. Anyway thats my Halo IP but on the tutorial it doesn't say to type that in the LAN server when u are adding the rules on Inbound, it gives me the number to write which is my Static IP which is 192.168.0.136(If I found it correctly) PLz don't try and hack me........otherwise I'll have a surprise coming back towards u:D
 
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Just tried again. I think maybe its becuz Halo1 port is 80 and I only have my laptop and that is connecting to port 2302....... I tried it wirelessly. Should I still be able to host even without the ethernet cable? My Halo server IP is 192.168.0.2:2302 like I said but am I meant to put that in the inbound rule when it says send LAN server? On the manual is says to type in 192.168.0.136 for all Halo1, Halo2, and Halo3.......I'm lost. But my guess is that its the Static IP thingy that is confusing me becuz I don't think I found it right. This is becuz when it asks for a gateway default I just gave it the gateway of the router..... budpam u got msn or something we can chat on so I can give u the numbers? I feel bit strange saying all my IP stuff on here.........
 
nagromme said:
Not sure if this helps, but here's your exact router model:

http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Netgear/DG834GT/Halo.htm
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Thx, but it tells me the same thing to do as the other 1. Its the same site I think........anyway. I know exactly how to do that. What I'm having trouble with is that I think I'm typing in the wrong Static IP. I'm not sure. Becuz I've done it 3 times and still no1 can join....... must be Static IP. But I'm not sure.:confused: I so want to host.....:(
 
I'm no expert on these things, but in case it adds to what you've been doing, here's how I would check the 3 IP addresses that I have needed in the past:

1. Local or internal IP address:
System Prefs > Network > Airport-or-Ethernet > TCP/IP > IP Address

2. Router's IP address:
System Prefs > Network > Airport-or-Ethernet > TCP/IP > Router

3. External or "real" IP address:
http://www.whatsmyip.org

I'm not sure what you mean by your static IP address. Your external address can either be static (never changes) or dynamic (changes sometimes) depending on your service provider. If it's dynamic, check the link in #3 any time to see the current one. Mine is dynamic but rarely changes.

In my experience you only need #1: that's the address to have your router forward ports to.

Good luck!
 
Sorry I'm just getting back to you-I won't be at my computer much until Monday. I would use the ethernet cable right now to keep things simple.

If the computer that is serving Halo has an ip address of 192.168.0.2, then YES, use that as the ip address in the inbound rules for every port when it says send to LAN server.

I don't know what device has the ip address of 192.168.0.136, but it shouldn't be needed. The ip address that is needed in the send to LAN server blank is the ip address of the computer that is hosting HALO.

BTW-don't worry about giving these ip address out, they are internal addresses that can not be seen by the "outside world"(the internet on the other side of your router).



bassy6 said:
Just tried again. I think maybe its becuz Halo1 port is 80 and I only have my laptop and that is connecting to port 2302....... I tried it wirelessly. Should I still be able to host even without the ethernet cable? My Halo server IP is 192.168.0.2:2302 like I said but am I meant to put that in the inbound rule when it says send LAN server? On the manual is says to type in 192.168.0.136 for all Halo1, Halo2, and Halo3.......I'm lost. But my guess is that its the Static IP thingy that is confusing me becuz I don't think I found it right. This is becuz when it asks for a gateway default I just gave it the gateway of the router..... budpam u got msn or something we can chat on so I can give u the numbers? I feel bit strange saying all my IP stuff on here.........
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