...Bill opens/closes ports, starts virtual servers, bangs head enough to have
YTREWQ show up on his forehead, launches router into the yard, setting a new State record for
"Distance Throwing - Networking Equipment - Home", uninstall/reinstalls/reuninstalls, and connects via direct Modem connection.
Yess!!! We have servers! Types into "Favorites" and keys in Cuda's server IP.
...and watches in helplessness as the connection counts....15...35...56...and timesout.... AUGHH!!! So, maybe its a LAN issue? Our anti-hero disables/reinables/runs Cat5 to new lan ports...fires everything back up....and connects to Cuda's server!
....15.....30....45....timeout.... AUGGHH!!! Repeat above scenario 5-7 times,
with similar results.... AUGGGHHH!!
7thIn wanting to admit defeat, and tell the guys not to bother trying to help anymore, Bill logs onto the TXSquadron forum. And, on his way to the original post, he sees
this....quote:
CUDA: ...I had my server up for a while earlier today and noticed that several peeps joined but timed out. KINGSNAKE: It is because they don't have the maps and.....
The sound of Bill's jaw hitting the keyboard makes such a racket, that his Wife, vacuuming the bedroom upstairs, stops and wonders "what was that noise?" Bill, livid beyond belief at wasting 2+ hours trying to figure out the MP connection issues for a game, reaches into a drawer, and with the left hand he pulls the CoD CD from the CD tray, and with his right... starts beating the CD with a hammer!!....
"LET ME INTRODUCE JU TO MY LIL' FRIEND!!! **BLAM** **BLAMMITY-BLAM-BLAM**{from upstairs} "Honey, are you ok?"
Are you tawhkin to me? ARE JU TAWHKEEN TO ME???I'm going back to Ghost Recon....~Bill