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    3 Asus notebook have a weird wireless problem...

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by vince_wonk, Oct 16, 2007.

  1. vince_wonk

    vince_wonk Notebook Enthusiast

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    i usually played warcraft 3 DOTA with my friends. and recently three of my friends bought a brand new asus notebook (F3Jp, G1s, W7s). and three of them constantly disconnected from our LAN Game. while other brands didnt suffer a problem like them. several of us use Acer, IBM THinkpad, Toshiba, HP, and Sony. we already set our advanced wireless network settings to only detect adhoc wireless network. we also already remove their preffered networks to "DOTA 2010" and remove other networks. we also set our ip manually to 192.168.x.x and all of us use windows wireless network service. these asus notebooks also have already upgrade their intel driver to the latest one. what's happened actually? is it because their card defective? sorry for my bad english
     
    vince_wonk, Oct 16, 2007
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    Schluep Notebook Consultant

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    Do only 4 of you play on the LAN on the LAN and in the same game that are disconnected?

    Did you set up the router for this LAN or is it run by some public venue? You may need to have port forwarding enabled for whatever port the game is communicating on.

    You mentioned that you set the IP addresses manually and are not using DHCP. If the router is set for DHCP it may be trying to assign the PC a different internal IP than the one it recognizes. Try allowing DHCP on the laptops and see if that helps.

    Another option would be if you control the wireless router to make sure you assigned the correct IP's to those computers so it matches the one they are trying to use. It could be that the IP addresses were incorrectly assigned.

    If you control the wireless router you may want to change the port settings in Warcraft III for each of the computers to a different port number (preferably a port number between 49152 and 65535 that is not in use) and then have the router forward the open ports to the 192.168.x.x IP for the laptop that has Warcraft III set to use that port. This could elimate any type of confusion regarding incorrect forwarding.

    If none of these suggetions work post back as to whether or not you control the wireless router (if so what brand/model is it) and also if you are only four on the LAN at once.
     
    Schluep, Oct 17, 2007
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