BF3 ...2 players of one router ?

Mr. May · 9 Oct 2011 at 16:36

I have 2 pc's capable of running BF3 and iam trying to join off the same router ...

but when ever one of use is connected it either kicks the other one out or are unable to join any server why is this as it was fine with BFBC2?

Spektor · 9 Oct 2011 at 16:42

Not having this issue here with multiple PCs connecting to the same server fine. Have you gave the +clientport parameter a whirl to see if it works?

Elfmeister. · 9 Oct 2011 at 19:02

It does this to two of my friends, happened on Bad Company 2 too, no idea to a fix though, so be intresting to to see what happens.

barmyllama · 9 Oct 2011 at 20:10

Worked ok for me, two PC's connected to the same router playing at the same time in the same map.

I do have UPnP disabled on the router. I don't know if this helps, but I had to turn it off because I was continually getting booted from games.

danbt · 9 Oct 2011 at 21:26

If anyone does find a fix for this, I'd be interested to see. Its really... really. annoying

opethdisciple · 9 Oct 2011 at 21:33

Are both players signing in to the same or different accounts?

What router do you have?

Spektor · 10 Oct 2011 at 08:29

Well in BC2 to get it working on two PCs I used -port 10001 as a parameter on just one of the PCs (I think the default is 10000), worked fine from then on.

I would imagine that it's the same BF3, I didn't get this issue but give it a try.

Sleepery · 10 Oct 2011 at 08:54

I had awful problems with my router and BFBC2 - there was a built in firewall on the router that had to be turned off completely before I could ever see any servers.

You can usually get onto your router settings using http://192.168.1.254/

Washout · 10 Oct 2011 at 10:41

If that doesn't work do an ipconfig /all at the cmd prompt and use the default gateway.