Battlezone 1

Obviously Bz has problems with some routers... let's make a list of those who work with BZ and those who don't. If you had to do some extra tweaking (like port forwarding or something) write what you did. Also, don't forget to say whether your PC is wired or wireless, and do you have more than 1 PC hooked on it. If both PC have Bz on it, say if they can join each others rooms.

I have Siemens Gigaset SE555. It works wired/wireless without any problems. For 2 PC's in the same room I had to turn Stateful Packet Inspection off.

P.S. Hyper, when the list grows, buy one out of working ones. Williamson, you too.

I must keep that in mind.

OK, thank you!
Another thing: I finally got round to trying out the crossover cable today, and.... it works!
I can now play with my brother.
I would really like to thank everyone for helping out, particularly you, Spock, and hope that the router problem can be fixed eventually...
I am really grateful.
Williamson

Hey Williamson,

Good to hear that at least your cable-IPX works. I played for a few months with my brother like that, before I got DSL and came online. Those hours and hours of playing 1on1, while testing differnt tactics and exploring maps, turned us both into respectable stratters.

If you don't get new router in the near future, try upgrading firmware on the current one. If you already have the newest, you can reset your router to factory settings. Both things will restore all values to default. Then you can try all those tips from the other topic once again. It might help, but you gotta know that some routers just don't work well with Bz.

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Hopefully we will have bigger list soon:

Working routers: Siemens SE 555...

I have a motorola SB5101E SURFboard

I dont have any problems

Then you're one of the lucky ones, my scottish friend.

Hey, I joined Tesla, natural selection and Mr. Stratking (which names do you guys use in Bz?) for some DM online today. I think it went pretty smooth so I think my router aint getting into trouble with Battlezone.

I'm behind a Davolink DV-201AMR, didn't forward any ports, do guess you can add that one to the 'good guys' list

Zoom X6 (DSL Router). Works fine, not sure if I can host though, but plays without a hitch.

Sonicwall TZ-170
I know its the furthest thing from a common brand/model, but i got it on suggestion from a friend via eBay.
It works great has lots of features but some IPs drop to 100% loss immediately when i enter the lobby. They seem completely random. I googled around a bit and if you pay for the subscription services on the unit it has content filtering. Found some posts somewhere that people said it would block ranges of IPs if there was one in there that has a bad reputation rating.
I checked and i made sure that all of the filtering was off on both lan and wan. also made firewall rules that opened the bz ports (21000-22000) and pointed them to my computer's static IP.
That still didn't work.
In the meantime I'm not using it until I can find a solution. But also I have other hardware issues to take care of - think i've got some bad memory that i can't afford to replace at the moment... or maybe it's the mobo itself. it's an old computer.
you might see me in the lobby so say hi! i might not be there long (for the time being)

<edit> I should point out that i don't subscribe to any of the services, so content filtering SHOULDN'T be a problem.