UT2004 seems to conflict with my WLAN...

[musilowski]

I have a serious problem with UT2004 at the moment. I got WLAN a month back, and it has been working just fine for the time, IRC, Firefox, uploading downloading, etc, all work well.

But each time I open UT2004.exe, my WLAN adapter says quits for me. I can play a match or two in UT2004 and then the WLAN disconnects altogether, it can't even reconnect if UT2004 is running in the background, but once UT2004.exe is closed, it happily reconnects again.

I've only noticed this with UT2004 (the only multiplayer I have on my PC at the moment). Everything else works just fine.

Any ideas?

[DarkAvenger]

This is just something to look at because I once had something similar happen.

Some routers have a so-called "firewall" capability, not simply the routing features. They will recognize all the UDP packets that are used in UT2004 as a UDP Flood Attack, and stop delivering them because it thinks you are being attacked. This happens even if you have set up in your virtual servers section to forward these ports to your PC.

What I had to do was disable the firewall feature on the router. I have firewall software on my PC anyway, so it wasn't needed.

Hope this helps.

[musilowski]

Alright, I'll try that. Thanks.

[Piglet]

It's a better idea to use port forwarding than turning off the hardware firewall.

[DarkAvenger]

It's a better idea to use port forwarding than turning off the hardware firewall.

I agree, if your router honors that request as it should. In my case I had the ports forwarded but the firewall within the router still recognized the multitude of UDP packets as a UDP Flood Attack, and started blocking them, causing enormous packet drops and an almost unplayable environment.

[{SAP}asciiKing]

It's a better idea to use port forwarding than turning off the hardware firewall.

Linksys (er Cisco- not the old workhorse original) routers are notorious for this. Forwarding, DMZ all useless depending on app. The SRX series is a hit and miss joke for that. Lots of VoIP conflicts too.

Makes a cool bookend though.

aK

[musilowski]

Or is this because my wireless router runs through a non-wireless router before it gets access to internet? I read that it might cause some problems... :S

[Zoë(Co30)]

Or is this because my wireless router runs through a non-wireless router before it gets access to internet? I read that it might cause some problems... :S

That sounds complicated. Please explain your exact connection scenario. You'll need to check the configuration on both routers I guess, but it's hard to give exact advice without knowing exactly what you have.

[GG-Xtreme]

I also have my wireless router running through a switch, try plugging your computer into the wired router instead, and the wireless one should ignore it.

[musilowski]

I also have my wireless router running through a switch, try plugging your computer into the wired router instead, and the wireless one should ignore it.

Yeah, UT2004 plays fine with a wire, so it could be about the two working together...

Zoë:

The setup is as such;

- USB WLAN adapter connected to my PC
- WLAN router which the adapter sends data to
- A short cable from the WLAN router to the wired router
- A ADSL cable to the wall
- Connection to the internet

Not sure if it's too complicated or something. At least I haven't seen an ADSL plug in the WLAN router anywhere, otherwise the wired router would be dropped from the setup... :S

[GG-Xtreme]

If you have 2 routers, type in the IP of the wireless one to get to the config screen. What model is your router? You should be able to turn off the security features somewhere in the config.

[musilowski]

Hmm, I think I fixed it... It was a bit "hidden" setting in the router config page... I allowed some ports and played a match, seemed to work.

I'll test more once I have some more time on my hands.

Thanks for now everyone, I'll get back to you if I experience more problems.