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I am quite new to this game (FC2) and usually don't play online but locally on my LAN in my house but for some reason I am having a very hard time to see any servers on the internet. I am using a Linksys WRT54G router with the latest firmware and to the best of my knowledge have the port 10308 set to forwarding. I shut off my firewall and turned on the Windows one (XP Pro)and allowed simulator.exe as an exception. Still no joy. My step dad left and I was flying against him on the LAN here but now he is gone and I need to connect up to a game sooner than later to practice for when he comes back or even fly against him online. What else could I try??

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I don't know as i just bought it a couple of days ago and figured it was the latest downloadable version. The simulator properties say 1.0.2 I recall. What is the latest version? Still can't get anywhere...

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I found the patch and installed it so I am up to version 1.2.1 from 1.0.2 which was the download version I got about 2 or 3 days ago. Still no joy though :cry:

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Yes, I have done the switch and still no joy. I expect the server list would show up fairly quick but I am going to wait and see if it takes a few minutes and go from there...but really it should be almost instant. So will SpyBot or anti spyware software muck it up?

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I would kind of like to leave some protection on but properly set it up so I don't get hosed by some virus, spyware etc...Does everybody really run online games with *all* protection turned off? Not me. :music_whistling: I didn't have any problems with LAN play for years now and this is really the first internet game I am tempted to use online so I am new in that respect. My firewall (Comodo) did show it had blocked 10307 and I had excluded 10308 already so I thought that was odd but made an exclusion. I also did the same for the port forwarding in my router.

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Well I just shut off the firewall and both SpyBot and SuperAntiSpyware and still no joy. Going to reboot and think on it some more...

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Still not seeing any servers...The funny thing is when my step dad was here connected to my LAN he was even able to see servers on the internet so I know they are out there. :D It has to be something trying to protect me I am guessing...

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I fixed it...:thumbup: Sort of...Now I can get the list of servers but with my firewall disabled. I fat fingered my static IP and had 2 instead of 102 on the port forwarding. I must be missing something on setting the firewall to exclude the game. Do I need to exclude LockOn too along with FC2?

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My firewall has a defense plus setting and a firewall setting and if I just turn off the defense setting I can't connect. If I turn off the firewall I can connect. Does anybody know *all* of the files used in FC2 that need to be set as trusted?? I have set simulator.exe and that doesn't do it. :book:

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db

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I am using Comodo Firewall. It is third party and is a great firewall and I normally don't have any issues. I have the router all set now but need to resolve this firewall problem or setting.

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I tried to get documentation from Comodo for the firewall, but the website seems more interested in selling stuff to me, than helping out :)

 

I don't use it myself, I just the windows Firewall so I can't really help sorry. It still sounds like it is Blocking the ports, you have opened 10308 for both HTTP and UDP?

 

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Yeah, I have the FREE version as I got it before they starting selling the suite. :P I have 10307 and 10308 opened in the router. I guess I need to open it in the firewall too but it seems I have tried without success. Anyhow, the firewall is showing that it has blocked 10307 UDP a bunch of times so that may be something...Do I lose an activation if I reinstall the game over itself?? Maybe if I set the firewall to training mode and do that it will find the missing link and make the correct rule?

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db

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Well, after 3 days of fighting the fricking firewall I removed the POS and everything works fine with the windows firewall. I gave up because the firewall was reminding me of Nortons Utilities where they try to protect you even when you shut them off and make it impossible to tweak. It would only allow FC2 to work with the firewall disabled and that is not cool. I made so many changes that once I would have figured it out I probably would have had 20 holes in my security. I do not trust windows firewall so has anybody used ZoneAlarm with success as I would like to have a more visual idea of who is trying to do what at my disposal?

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db

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I actually use no anti-virus or spyware protection. I also don't use my PC for e-commerce or surf questionable sites (its just my personal taste). I hate the wasted system resources from using such programs, but I understand I'm part of a small base that DOES NOT use these types of programs. My justification is everything is backed up and if something cripples my system I re-install everything. So far been using this strategy for 10+ years with no issues yet.

 

But one of my main reasons is for the issues your describing in this thread!

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davebert

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I installed the FREE ZoneAlarm firewall and it worked perfect right out of the box and recognized that FC2 was trying to access the internet and popped a little notifier with options and then after I clicked "allow" it popped another to access the servers and I said "allow" and made a rule and instant success! :thumbup: So my firewall was the culprit after all which I suspected but it was a really good firewall until now. :music_whistling: So now I just have to practice my flying skills. :joystick:

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I actually use no anti-virus or spyware protection. I also don't use my PC for e-commerce or surf questionable sites (its just my personal taste). I hate the wasted system resources from using such programs, but I understand I'm part of a small base that DOES NOT use these types of programs. My justification is everything is backed up and if something cripples my system I re-install everything. So far been using this strategy for 10+ years with no issues yet.

 

But one of my main reasons is for the issues your describing in this thread!

 

You have been lucky and I understand your thoughts but I have too much stuff to re-install even though it is backed up. I hate spending all the time re-installing software. I do have some good backup program though that works thru DOS and makes an image and is fairly quick. Problem is you have to have an equal sized drive for backing it up even if it is half full. In other words, if I have a 1TB drive for my "C" drive then I need a 1TB drive to back up the image too, even if the source drive is only using 100GB. I need to add another drive now so I will back up the 250GB drive before I install the 1TB drive. :D

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