kudos to link!

um... yes.

As was described in Link's "Cool!" post, I have a problem with hosting games. I do believe it's my hardware network router (Linksys Etherfast Cable Router, unknown serial [stoopid brother tossed the box out ]), since I haven't been able to host a game since it was connected. My friend has told me that when he tried to access my server, it continued pinging, but never got through. I've been referred to port forwarding in a different topic, but I don't know what it is, or how to do it.

JJ2 Ver: TSF 1.24
OS: Windows 98
Net: Cable connection

Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Well what will really help is the type of router (even, what does it look like), but here is a start:

Go to 192.168.1.1 in your web browser. Also try 192.168.1.0. It should ask you for a password. The default password is "admin", so if that doesn't work, ask whoever set-up the router (your brother, maybe?). Then find the port forwarding section (it will be in there somewhere), and forward ports 10052 to 10054 to the local IP of your JJ2 computer.

That is basically how you do it, it may vary from router to router.

And BTW, to get your local IP, at least on win98, type "winipcfg" in Start->Run

If it is not 192.168.1.something, then your router IP probably didn't work either. Instead, for example, if winipcfg said "131.131.1.103", you would go to "131.131.1.1" or "131.131.1.0" (basically replace the last number with a 0 or a 1.

thx link, but, once again, my computer has decided to **** me off...

I went to 192.168.1.0, and it told me it couldn't find the address. Easy enough, it wasn't there. So I tried 192.168.1.1. After about three minutes, it tells me I have a gateway timeout, and the server's unreachable. I don't understand how this could happen, considering the server's on top of my computer tower.

Suggestions?

Well you probably have the wrong address, or the router doesn't have an in-browser configuration (bad). What type of router did you say it was?

And did you try the other thing, with winipcfg?

I think in situations like these, you really need to ask the person who setup the router what the address is. And ask if they still have the manual.