Age of Mythology Direct IP Hosting Problem

SpriteAlpha · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:20

Haven't played this game in a few years. Just installed it, and tried to host a direct ip game, but the other person is unable to connect. Now, I have a Linksys WRT54GL router, and I think this may be the problem.

When in the hosting screen, it displays your IP, and it gave me the internal 192.168.1.x address. So I searched around, and added the command line "+OverrideAddress="ipaddress" +directIPConnectivity" to the shortcut of the game, and now it displays my actual IP as an "alternative address" when in the hosting screen. However, this has not fixed the problem.

This is all the info I can think to give you. If anyone has a possible solution, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

SpriteAlpha · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:33

Nah, nobody is using Hamachi. What do you mean created my network? I'm assuming I have. Oh, and I have a static IP address. I dunno if that has any effect...

SpriteAlpha · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:40

Yeah. Though the other computer is not in my house; I'm trying to do a DirectIP with a friend.

SpriteAlpha · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:50

I'm just using Windows Firewall. Should I put the IP of the other person in my router's DMZ setting then?

SpriteAlpha · 31 Oct 2008 at 15:29

Yeah, I already opened every port I could find for AOM, but obviously that didn't help.

However, I've just put my internal IP address into the DMZ setting, and it works!

Thanks very much. Though, does this mean that there are some ports that I could open (which I so far haven't), which would enable AOM to work without using the DMZ setting (I usually use this setting for my Wii, so it'll be an annoyance to keep on changing the address)?

Edit:

Just for anyone's reference: If I take that the line "+OverrideAddress="ipaddress" +directIPConnectivity" out of the shortcut, the other person is unable to join.

SpriteAlpha · 2 Nov 2008 at 13:25

Ok, this is weird: After switching DMZ on, it only seems to work randomly. Sometimes the other person can connect fine, but other times it gets to the "awaiting connection" screen and times out. When it works, it's usually after I switch the DMZ off then on again, along with switching the ports off and on (which I know shouldn't make any difference) - but this just works some times, so as I said, it seems to be random.

Any idea about this?