Problem with internet gaming - AOE2 only

[BarnyardMonkey]

Hey hey,

Had a problem hopefully someone could help me with here.

Been trying to play the old Age Of Empires 2 again,but unable to play outside the LAN with more than 1 PC.all 3 PC's play completely fine within the LAN without port forwarding etc,but once an outside PC connects with us,or we attempt to connect to that person it fails.

Only one PC is able to connect/play as long as the ports are opened.and the others don't get an IP to show up for the person,or once we do get connected,the game won't start when launched until the 2 on my LAN drops out.


Setup info:

1 IP from ISP (RR Service)
Linksys BEFSR41 V3 (DHCP Disabled - newest firmware)
Winxp Pro on all 3:
Correct ports opened that the game needs:
No other firewall/virus software installed:
Also tried DXport to see if that helped,but pretty much the same problem - except all were able to connect to same game,but failed to launch correctly

This game use to be fine a long time ago with more than 1 PC on my connection,but i've changed many things since then,so not sure what it could be now.

Any help or info on what to tried would be appreciated.


Thanks.

 

[pcgamer321]

I'm having trouble playing with Lan with this game, and I port forwarded it and everything. It just says searching for games forever, and I just gave up eventually.