Battlefield 2 connection problems

GothicGhost · 1 Jan 2010 at 23:18

Hi all.

Ok i got Bf2 off steam the other day and when i try play online using my router i cannot connect to 99% of the online games

Its a Netgear WGR614 v9.

I opened as many ports for battlefield 2 and game spy as i can find on the net that i need to open.

Service Name Start Port End Port Server IP Address
1 bf1 80 80
2 bf5 28910 28910
3 bf2 29900 29900
4 bf4 29920 29920
5 bf6 4711 4711
6 bf3 29901 9901
7 bf7udp 27900 27900
8 bf8udp 29900 29900
9 bf10upd 27901 27901
10 bf11udp 55123 55123
11 bf9udp 29910 29910
12 bf12udp 55124 55124
13 bf13udp 55215 55215
14 bf14udp 16567 16567
15 bf15udp 1500 4999
16 gs 27900 27900
17 gs1 28900 28900
18 gs3 13139 13139
19 gs4 6500 6500
20 gs5 6515 6515

I have also Disabled SPI Firewall.

Updated punk buster

Only way i play is if i don't use the router but that not a option when other people need internet.

I read that i need a static ip as my ip changes every time i boot up but just to test it i made all open ports for the ip i have set atm.

So it should work for now but still no change and i cannot see anything whats on the router that could be messing with the game.

Thanks for any help.

thevet · 2 Jan 2010 at 13:49

download pbsvc and run that also,you should not have to open ports on your router,did u update the game with the latest patch also

PistolPete · 2 Jan 2010 at 16:39

You don't need to open ports on your router to play BF2, I used to play fine on my 614v9.
You also don't need a static IP either.

Sounds like your router is messing with the connection - I'd be tempted to try and factory reset it and try again

lionheart766 · 2 Jan 2010 at 17:04

Is UPnP enabled on your router?

GothicGhost · 2 Jan 2010 at 21:00

I got BF 2 off steam and it updated by steam so i guess its updated ok i think to 1.5 patch.

I don't have to open ports on my router ? well it don't seem to do anything anyways lol.

I do have UPnP turned on.

Do i need UPnP on or off ?

Thanks.

PistolPete · 3 Jan 2010 at 12:09

I'm not sure what the fascination with forwarding ports for server based games - maybe it goes back to the days where people played peer to peer.

Also, uPNP is not required, in fact I have it disabled.

Anyways... what's the actual problem. Do you not see the servers, or do you get a network connection failure when connecting? Do you get any messages?

GothicGhost · 3 Jan 2010 at 14:45

I just looked on Google when i first had problems and most info i seen said open ports so first thing i did to see if i could fix it myself.

Ok i just went on bf2 to get a pic of the error i was am getting and for some reason i am connecting to server ok now every time.

But it done that before for a while then back to connection failed so see what happens.

The error i was getting is when i click join to say some like.
(((connection failed please check your network connection)))

I can see severs fine but using the router it don't seem like to load all of them and takes longer to load them into the server browser as well.

PistolPete · 3 Jan 2010 at 20:34

Might be the NAT table filling up too much - it was a really common problem back in the day with many 10's of thousands of Counter Strike servers.

When I refresh I only see about 800 servers these days, but I only play on 3-4 in my favorites anyway.