Lag/Connectability Issues part 5000000000008

Kevin_Arnold · Post by **Kevin_Arnold** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:08 am

A friend and I are having difficulty getting ZSNES to work over the internet with any sort of playability. Yes, I have looked at the faq for it and the posts and seached and all of that, but everyone keeps saying to forward ports and all of that for a router...but we both have personal computers and don't HAVE routers, do we? Since I have cable internet, doesn't the router my computer/internet uses exist somewhere in Cox's building?

We are only able to connect when we uncheck the UDP option (which I have no idea what it means) and then it is incredibly, incredibly slow. We are using the current version, and have tried 1.36, but then we cannot connect at all.

I do not have a firewall and his is set to allow zsnes (though he did not go and manually allow ports--does he set those ports as udp or tcp?).

His specs:
256 Ram
1.40 ghz

Mine:
2 gig ram
3 gh

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:45 am

Both UDP and TCP would need to be forwarded.

AntoineWG · Post by **AntoineWG** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:51 am

To answer your question, yes, Cox does have routers that act as the gateway between your cablemodem and the internet at large, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about a box that sits between your cablemodem and your PC. They're a must if you have a wireless connection or if you have more than one PC able to access the internet at a time.

And to answer your second question, yes, he has to manually forward UDP port 7845 for UDP to work.

And do yourself a favor and get a firewall. Software firewalls work but may slow your computer down. Hardware routers are better. The internet is not a safe place and a windows PC without protection is just asking for trouble, no matter how little time it's online without protection.