Help. No multiplayer with Cable?

[blackice]

Is it onboard or installed ie PCI?

[Azrael]

It's a SohoWare USB connector

[Franses]

This weekend I formatted the hard disk, installed XP and then installed CTP. Unfortunately it did not help (cry, cry, cry).

[faded glory]

Originally posted by Darth Viper


How would we do that?

control panel, under modems. If it says you need to dial up. It sounds like CTP is trying to use your default dial-up modem

if all else fails, call your cable provider and demand some kind of advice.

[Azrael]

We cannot find any modem and its only ctp that doesnt work

[blackice]

http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/game-behind-router.asp

it may help

[blackice]

http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/peer-nat.html

Pishaw this explains alot, ps winxp is crap wait for winxp se

[Quinn]

Conection

Cable modem is not a dial-up connection. It is a network in principle. You will not be able to use the internet connection. With cable you only have lan/wan connection unless you can get a direct connection to the internet, but I doubt it. If you want high speed you need dsl inorder to have a dial up connection.

[blackice]

If you have Windows configured to automatically dial when you access the Internet, choosing the TCP/IP LAN transport will cause your modem to dial, even though you're only accessing the LAN. To work around this problem, either click "Cancel" when the Windows Internet dialup dialog box comes up, or disable automatic dialing by checking "Connect to the Internet using a local area network" (which will uncheck "Connect to the Internet using a modem") in Control Panel/Internet/Connection.

[Franses]

Good news

We have good news. First we connected the Soho adapter to one of our Windows 98 machines. It did not immediately connect to the Internet so we defined in Internet Explorer/Internet options/LAN settings "Auto detect settings". After that the W98 machine connected to the Internet and........ YES, also to the CTP servers.

I than took a long shot and defined the same auto detect settings in XP. I remembered from installation that that had not been necessary to connect to the Internet. Indeed, the box was not checked. I checked it, started CTP and IT ALL WORKED.

Thanks to all of you who helped us out here. It gave us a warm feeling knowing that you were all thinking along with us and coming up again and again with new, good ideas.

So it looks we are back again

We only need to install a new servers.dat file because we only found the us1 server and could not get into the lobby. I assume however that that is a totally different problem. Thanks again, guys. Get frightened since we will crush you.