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| 33204 | 2002-01-28 06:26:00 | Alrighty, sick and tired of bad ISP's and servers far far away, my friend and I started looking for alternatives to the norm of online gaming (connecting to online servers). Seemed our best shot was for one of us to set up a dial-up server. The other (using dial-up networking) would dial the other computer and we'd start the game, selecting LAN. There are a few nice articles on the net that taught us. Unfortunately it doesnt quite work like it should. I am running winME (ew) and my friend is running 2000. He can't find the settings that the articles describe; they are written for 9x operating systems. The article we followed is located at www.lbctyler.org . My friend would connect but would fail at the login screen - even if I created no password at all. Is there anything special he has to login with? Have we got our protocols mixed up? Or an easier way to do it? Thanks! |
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| 33205 | 2002-01-28 09:02:00 | Most games still have an option to play over a dial-up connection. Bugger trying to convince the computer that the dial-up connection is in fact a LAN, just let the game dial your friends computer which is set to answer. |
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| 33206 | 2002-01-28 09:16:00 | Are you kidding? AOE2 is about the only newer game I can think of at the moment that supports modem/modem play. Every game that supports multiplayer supports LAN play, but it seems to be only older games that support modem/modem... and good old quake 1 doesn't quite stand up to Counter-Strike these days :P | Guest (0) | ||
| 33207 | 2002-01-28 23:36:00 | Hi. I can't help about the LAN sorry, but if you'd like some lessons in AOE2 and you live in the AK area, drop me a line! zhavera at yahoo.co.uk Cheers |
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| 33208 | 2002-01-29 12:00:00 | OK if you've followed ther instructions on that page you are mostly there, however bringing NT or 2K or XP into mix raises the issue of authentication. setup a user account and password on the machine that is acting as the server, this needs to match the logon details that the person on the other end is using. with that done it should work. keep in mind that you'll only get a 33k connection speed when to analogue devices are connecting. | Guest (0) | ||
| 33209 | 2002-01-31 07:56:00 | Thanks everyone for your help... both of us have now upgraded to XP Pro, perhaps that will help the multiple OS problem... now I just need some new instructions for NT OS's :P | Guest (0) | ||
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