Well, these are the facts:
- I am using a router to establish a ZBattle connection
- Router model is: Netgear WPN824 (http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WPN824.php)
- I am using latest Zbattle verison (ZBattle.net v1.09 SR-1 Beta)
- Windows XP- / Router firewall is completely disabled
- The ports UDP 7845 / TCP 4000 have been correctly forwarded in the router (like, well, 100 times in evey possible way)
- I have read / tried ALL ZBattle & ZSNES related documentation avaiblable
- I have also tried to use DMZ server, without success
- Port triggering doesn't work as well
- I used a DLink router before, forwared ports like with the new router, no problems
No matter what I do the result is always the same: "Error connecting to server.".
Now, there's one weird thing. I WAS able to connect to ZBattle and actually host, join and play games for exactly 2 times. This is what I did:
- Logged onto router config page (on main computer, where router is connected to)
- Forwarded UDP/TCP ports to the IP: 192.168.1.4 (wich is actually wrong because my IP is: 192.168.1.2)
- Disconnected router, re-connected (on config page)
- Started ZBattle, waited till "Error connecting to server." message, left Zbattle running
- Went to config page again, corrected address to my IP: 192.168.1.2
- Disconnected router, re-connected (on config page)
- Clicked "OK" on the error message, closed Zbattle
- Immediately reopened Zbattle and Boom! It connected and I was able to play
I have no clue why this worked but since that I can't connect anymore. Maybe it's because I configed the router from the main computer, I don't now. Well, that's it so far. If anyone has an idea what could be the cause of this problem please let me know as soon as possible.
Here's my network info, maybe it's useful to someone:
Windows-IP-Konfiguration
Hostname. . . . . . . . . . . . . : OSWALD-ROCKER
Primäres DNS-Suffix . . . . . . . :
Knotentyp . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unbekannt
IP-Routing aktiviert. . . . . . . : Nein
WINS-Proxy aktiviert. . . . . . . : Nein
Ethernetadapter LAN-Verbindung:
Medienstatus. . . . . . . . . . . : Es besteht keine Verbindung
Beschreibung. . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139-Familie-PCI-Fast Eth
ernet-NIC
Physikalische Adresse . . . . . . : 00-13-D3-B1-46-49
Ethernetadapter Drahtlose Netzwerkverbindung:
Verbindungsspezifisches DNS-Suffix:
Beschreibung. . . . . . . . . . . : RT2500 USB Wireless LAN Card
Physikalische Adresse . . . . . . : 00-12-BF-50-95-A8
DHCP aktiviert. . . . . . . . . . : Ja
Autokonfiguration aktiviert . . . : Ja
IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2
Subnetzmaske. . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Standardgateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP-Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS-Server. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Lease erhalten. . . . . . . . . . : Sonntag, 5. Februar 2006 19:13:03
Lease läuft ab. . . . . . . . . . : Montag, 6. Februar 2006 19:11:59