battlenet through a linksys router...any ideas?

[juice_weasel]

I'm having a hard time getting both computers on the network to be able to play starcraft on battle.net. I keep getting the stupid latency msg. And when I finally do get in, the lag is killing me. We're running dsl through the linksys befsr41. any ideas?

[NuTs62]

Originally posted by juice_weasel
I'm having a hard time getting both computers on the network to be able to play starcraft on battle.net. I keep getting the stupid latency msg. And when I finally do get in, the lag is killing me. We're running dsl through the linksys befsr41. any ideas?

I'm personally unfamiliar with the Linksys router, I have the Netgear RT314, and the SMC wireless one. I've received that message numerous times. Are you trying to connect both computers to the same game over battle.net? If that is the case, you won't be able to. I'd suggest checking battle.net's help files regarding networks logging onto their servers. You might be able to set your battle.net to different ports at most, but besides that, I'm not sure. Good luck =)

[shoeish]

We have three computers and an imac hooked up to our cisco dsl modem using NAT. All four computers have no issues logging on to bnet, playing in the same game, and playing different games.

HOWEVER, my roommate lost his starcraft jewel case a while back and had to format, and then again just the other day. He used my cd key the first time and it worked up until he had to reinstall starcraft a week or so ago. Now, with the latest BW update, it no longer works. He bought a copy of plain SC at the store for $9 and it works fine.

Warcraft III beta to "battle.net" works fine through our router, too.

Sorry I didn't have suggestions, but you should know that it WILL work using NAT.

[NuTs62]

Originally posted by shoeish
We have three computers and an imac hooked up to our cisco dsl modem using NAT. All four computers have no issues logging on to bnet, playing in the same game, and playing different games.

HOWEVER, my roommate lost his starcraft jewel case a while back and had to format, and then again just the other day. He used my cd key the first time and it worked up until he had to reinstall starcraft a week or so ago. Now, with the latest BW update, it no longer works. He bought a copy of plain SC at the store for $9 and it works fine.

Warcraft III beta to "battle.net" works fine through our router, too.

Sorry I didn't have suggestions, but you should know that it WILL work using NAT.

What's "NAT"?

And they were working on that issue before. Perhaps they updated in their last patch for starcraft? *shrug*

[Hoser]

NAT is Network Address Translation. It allows multiple computers on your home network to access the internet while they all appear to be the same IP address.

This link explains it: http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/about-NAT.asp