3rd Apolyton C3C Multiplayer Tournament

[The Slayer]

I asked because I don't see the roads "let me see and I'll believe"

[jeff76]

modem...

Hi Canuck

I have the Asus USB. The first of the list on the page you showed me.
I'll wait for your opinion...
Thanks for the help. Really nice.

Jeff

ps... I did deactivate my built-in XP firewall.

[jeff76]

for the tournament...

If I can make it work, I'll probably continue the tourney if possible. I'll have to find a new opponent for the first round though...

We'll see...

Is Mark reading this thread?

Jeff

[sabrewolf]

Originally posted by The Slayer
I asked because I don't see the roads "let me see and I'll believe"

if you take a veeeeery careful look, you'll see it on the tile over the gems and the non-jungle tile north of the catapults

[CanuckSoldier]

Jeff, since Belgacom, isn't specific as to which model they use could you look at this page and tell me what model you have.

http://uk.asus.com/products/communication/adsl/adslindex.htm

Thanks CS

[Shogun Gunner]

Originally posted by The Slayer
I asked because I don't see the roads "let me see and I'll believe"

If you are looking at the screen shots I posted, you won't see the roads until I got a unit up there to see the tiles.

I was on a serious retreat with no time to scout the tiles being worked by Arnelos (and guarded by 20 units!!! )

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by The Slayer
I asked because I don't see the roads "let me see and I'll believe"

I had 6 industrious workers with my stack. Supposedly, that completes a road in the jungle in 1 turn under despotism and I could have gotten through the jungle at 2 turns per tile (1 turn to build the road, the other turn to move the workers to the next unroaded tile). Unfortunately, I was in anarchy at the same time I was attempting to trudge through the jungle and it took a good bit longer than that with the reduced worker efficiency.

Screenshot of mine on the previous page showing my army in between his two cities displays the road, though it is difficult to notice.

[jeff76]

To Canuck

Hi,
On this page, it's the last one from top. So the AAM6000UG

Thanks again, I appreciate the effort....
Jeff

[jeff76]

To Canuck

Hi,
I had a close look at this page and tried to look at the other modem presented there. For all of them, I can click on "specifications" and get date about the firewall/router. Not for mine. So I switched to the global site (and not the UK one, you can do this at the top right) and I searched for my modem and clicked on specification. Now it works... but nothing about firewall/router... Does that mean I have none... And if yes, what's my problem then ?

Jeff

[CanuckSoldier]

Jeff, it doesn't appear that your DSL modem contains a router/firewall. And you've said that you have disabled the winXP firewall. Do you have any other software firewalls? Norton Internet Security/Norton Personal Firewall, McAfee Firewall, BlackIceDefender, ZoneAlarm, to name a few.

You can go here and test to see it your Civ related ports are open, it this fails and you don't seem have any other problems then you should phone your ISP and see if they have any issues.

http://www.dslreports.com/scan

CS

[jeff76]

To Canuck

First, I followed the test and here are the results : (I reproduce here the exact text of the scan)

monitor.dslreports.com scanning (here was my IP address)
does not espond tp a ICMP ping
does not repond to a TCP ping
does not repond to a NDP ping
Probing TCP ports with SYN packets
TCP probe finished
probing UDP ports for echoes
UDP prbe finished
Scan complete
Open TP port 139 was not seen
microsoft netbios check skipped
press result button.

Conclusion : Healthy setup! We could detect no interesting responses from any of the commomly probed TCP and UDP port. It would be difficlut for an attacker to know where to start without further information.

TCP all : filtered No response packet received
UDP all : filtered No response packet received
=================================

Ok, questions :

1. what do you think about that ?
2. In the booklet of C3C, there's a page telling which ports have to be open to join and host. I don't know where to go to see my own closed and open ports and open them...
3. When i try to join, I still get alway a 0 ping.
4. Nobody sees my game when I want to host
5. By asking my IP address several times on a web page I got different answer at different moments !
6. In my WIn XP, it says that my IP address is automaticaly defined...
7. the only programm I think could cause problem for Civ is my anti-virus (Antivir XP), that I deactivate usually when I want to play...

That is about all the problems\questions I have.

I'd like to try a game with you when you are available. We know that it works for you, so if a problem occurs... it should be because of me. What about next friday ?

thanks for all
Jeff

[jeff76]

erratum

sorry : erratum

the second line of the scan should be read as : does not respond to a...

[jeff76]

to Canuck

I just joined a game and it worked, for the first time...
there was only the host and me though... what happened ?
Still can't host...
Jeff

[CanuckSoldier]

Sure we can test your setup, you can find me in the C3C lobby most nights....I use GS Arcade to chat. There is always the possibility that Directx 9b is causing you problems, me and many others can't host with it and have reverted to DX 8.2 to host, and yes it works fine with C3C despite what the box says.

CS

[jeff76]

to Canuck

I'll try to be in the lobby but when it's evening for you it's too early morning for me (I live in Brussels at the moment). Best would be if you have time on a weekend. I'll email you when I know when I'm available.

Thanks again.

Jeff