Cromatical Drak's Technical

Configuring you LinkSys Router

I am writing this for one main reason, to help other people avoid getting as frustrated as I did trying to configure my router to let me host games on Battle.Net.

First off, I would like to thank Zydel for his help. I had most of it figured out and Zydel came through with the final clincher to get me going. I literally spent hours troubleshooting it. Hell, Zydel didn't even know who I was and he was helping me out; great guy he is.

This configuration procedure will work for all Linksys Cable/DSL routers.

After running the set up software that comes with your router, you will be able to surf the net, check your email, etc. You will not, however, be able to host custom and AT games on Battle.Net. Its been mentioned a million times before in this forum but I will mention it again. The port you want to open is 6112. This port is a data exchange port and is set as default to not allow incoming and/or outgoing data exchange. This is why other people can not see your custom games or cannot join your AT games. For firewall questions, see Creed's thread titled “Read before complaining about firewalls� in the tech support forum at www.warcraft3.com. This thread is very good and will fundamentally get you started. Many, many good post replies in that thread.

Anyways, after getting the router connected, you need to access it your router configuration parameters. To do this, you will need to open up your web browser and type the following number 192.168.1.1 into your web address bar. This is your router IP address and is standard for all LinkSys routers. To verify that this is correct, press your start menu and click on run. Type in “cmd� to open up dos prompt. Type “cd..� a couple times until you get back to C:/ . The “cd..� stands for change directory. After getting back to C:/ , type in “ipconfig�. This will show approx. four lines of text; a DNS suffix, IP address, Subnet Mask and default gateway. Your IP address(which is the address for your PC, not your router) you will need later, the router IP address (192.168.1.1) should match the number following the default gateway in the DOS screen.

After entering that number into your browser and pressing enter, you will be prompted for a user name and password which you should not have set up yet. Leave the user name blank and type in “admin� into the password blank. This will open up a screen which is a direct interface to your router. Many things can be altered from these pages; so be careful!!

You will need to click the orange “Advanced� tab at the top of the screen. Next, you will want to click the DMZ host tab. On that screen, you will see the text “DMZ Host
IP Address:� you will want to enter the last three digits of your computers IP address (from the DOS screen above). Then click apply.

Next, click on the "Forwarding" tab on that same screen. You will see five columns; Ext. port, Protocol TCP, Protocol UDP, IP address and enable. The Ext. Port gives a range which, in default, says “0 To 0�. You are going to change it to look like “ 0 To 6112�. You are then going to check both of the next checkboxes (TCP and UDP). You are going to enter the last three digits of your IP address again (just like you did in your DMZ host tab). Then, check the enable checkbox and click apply.

You should be all set to host games on Battle.Net. This will eliminate router problems; but as for firewalls, that way to enable that port is unique to each type of firewall. To do it in Norton is not the same as doing it in McAffee . If you are having firewall issues, you will need to probably contact technical support of the manuf. of the firewall software; and , as mentioned in creeds thread, you might have to disable the standard XP firewall all together if you have Windows XP.

Enjoy.

Disabling your pop up windows

This topic probably goes hand and hand with my router topic. Ever since I opened up those game ports, pop up windows have been appearing out of nowhere even when I'm not surfing the web. They advertise anything from porn to getting your college degree in 2 months to , coincidentally, pop up blockers. I never had this problem before prior to opening these ports and yes I do have a firewall; actually I have 2 firewalls (XP and Norton) and yet these messages still make it through.

The reason the firewalls dont catch them is because the advertisements ride in on Windows messenge system built into the OS. In the firewalls eyes, these messages are a result of normal windows behavior.

Windows XP
1.Click Start->Control Panel
2.For Category View only (skip this step for Classic View), click Performance and Maintenance
3.Click Administrative Tools
4.Double-click Services
5.Scroll down and highlight "Messenger"
6.Right-click the highlighted line and choose Properties
7.Click the STOP button.
8. Select Disabled or Manual on the Startup Type drop-down menu
9. Click OK

Other Windows OS use the same basic navigation concepts (i.e. in the administrative tools)

Hope this helps.

i wrote a similar tutorial ages ago with pictures and all. ill try and find it

Yes, so if anybody else needs help just ask.