How to start a Home Network LAN Game

Walkattack · Post by **Walkattack** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:09 pm

Hi folks! I have a wireless network and want to start a network game simply on my own home network against others on my home network. Can someone offer advice on how to do this?

zapp · Post by **zapp** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:18 pm

D1, D2, D3?
once all the computers are visible to eachother on the network, just start up a game on one and join from the others... IPX is good for D1 and D2.

Walkattack · Post by **Walkattack** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:23 pm

Thanks for the reply! D3. All the computers are visible from all the computers. I'll give the IPX a try. What is IPX?

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:28 pm

If you're already hooked up, Direct TCP/IP works for D3. Get the IP of the host computer, and put it into the IP box of the computers that need to join, then click "Search for games at this address".

Walkattack · Post by **Walkattack** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:30 pm

Thanks again for the reply! I believe I tried that, but without any luck. Maybe I entered the IP incorrectly. Do I enter it like "\\192.168.xx.xx"?

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:17 pm

You don't need any backslashes when you're playing in D3. Just 192.128.xxx.xxx

Genghis · Post by **Genghis** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:07 pm

Maybe you've got personal firewalls on one or more of the computers you're using? Could be you need to unblock the ports. Try to portscan the server.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:53 pm

The back slashes are going to do it.

D3 should play very, very nicely on a home network actually.