Need help with setting up my game server

[realbigdreamer]

Hey guys,

Not sure if the gaming forum is the right place to ask this.

A few of my friends and I have decided to play a game (Open TTD) over the internet. A few of us will be at my house with our PCs in a LAN. The others will have a LAN at another guy's house. The idea is that I host a server and the players in the LAN connect to the server. The others connect to my server via the internet.

As I understand, I need to "forward a port" for the game so that the other players can connect over the internet. Currently only the players in the LAN can access the server. The other that need to access the server over the internet can't find it.

My PC is connected to the internet via a mobile broadband connection. The PCs in the LAN are connected via an ethernet switch.

Does anyone know how I can make the server visible for the players that connect over the internet (forward a port)? I'm running Windows 7.

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[Veyron]

I see one big problem "via a mobile broadband connection"

 

[EasyUp Web Hosting]

No port forwarding if you are using 3G.

Have a look at hamachi. There is another one as well, but can't remember the name.

 

[labratza]

hamachi is your best bet works like a charm. just need to make sure internet is working on all the computers

 

[realbigdreamer]

I see one big problem "via a mobile broadband connection"

The game installation is 29.5 mb. The network code is very sufficient to use very little bandwidth. We want to play old school. Open TTD is an old game we played many years ago.

Thanks for the info, I'll try to fiddle with the settings later.


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