realm down / checking versions / connecting through router

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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, "Michael" wrote:

>> HELP!
>>
>> Trying to do some light muling between characters on battlenet, and having a
>> hell of a time trying to get two computers to play at once...
>>
>> I can generally get one computer to battle net (sometimes requires shutting
>> down router, sometimes cable modem), but if the other computer doesn't get
>> stuck on "checking versions", it almost invariably gets a realm down.

I have that on my system for a while (4 computers one router one DSL
modem) the "Connecting to the Slowest System" screen was annoying.

The answer was in my router configuration, a "special applications"
page, which restricted the critical ports to 1 machine at a time. When
I enabled this, thinking it part of good firewalling, the trouble
started. Upon disabling this again, life was good again.



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