Hey all
I'm having a ton of connection problems. It can work, but I fail to connect to about 50% of everyone, so it's really painful. From experimenting with friends, it seems pretty clear the connectivity problems aren't random. If I can connect with a guy, I always can & vice versa.
I'm behind a company non-UPnP NAT router sharing 1 public IP on a dual ADSL line and have no direct access to anything. I have, however, forwarded Monk's guide and the relevant bits of the Demigod manual to our network admin, who swears on his mother's grave everything is configured accordingly. For myself, I'm pretty confident AV and Firewall are configured properly, especially since it appears to make no difference whether neither, either or both are active.
Following the ShieldsUP! link, I get a "ping recieved" on port range 6100-6200 and port 16000, and all ports show as stealthed. I think I know what the former means, but I have no idea about the latter.
When things don't work out (and with 50% connect rate, that's like 90% of the time or something), Demigod simply reports I've "been kicked".
I've tried Game Ranger as well, but without luck so far. I don't know if a 50% connection failure rate is the reason since I don't know how to find the information. All I do know, is that Game Ranger reports a "Symmetric NAT error" evey time.
This, by the way, is all post-patch .053. Prior to that I couldn't connect to anyone at all.