SAIX game servers: Can't connect

[OsireS]

Hi

I got a 2gig standard telkom ADSL package and can't seem to connect to any of their online game servers on games.saix.net. Are the 2gb standard packages prevented from doing this?

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

Nope - never heard of this before.

Have you opened the ports for the games on your router and is this the first time you've attempted to get onto the SGS servers?

 

[OsireS]

Ports are definetly open and it is the first time. I can't seem to ping the actual server IPs themselves and tracerts go nowhere.

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

I think SGS don't allow pings.

Ping http://games.saix.net though.

 

[OsireS]

Nope still no joy, if I ping games.saix.net I get

c:\ping games.saix.net

Pinging games.saix.net [196.4.79.14] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 196.43.10.86: Destination net unreachable.
Reply from 196.43.10.86: Destination net unreachable.
Reply from 196.43.10.86: Destination net unreachable.
Reply from 196.43.10.86: Destination net unreachable.

Ping statistics for 196.4.79.14:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

No I get this using my Telkom Account and a Data Pro account. Anybody got any explanations for this?

 

[21alpha]

Hey,

I had the same problem while using Iburst. It would seem that Dominic is right. It looks like sgs drops ping/tracert packets. I could not ping/tracert the sgs servers but when I ran BF2 I could see the server in the server list. Have you tried looking for the servers this way?

 

[killadoob]

try ping myadsl.co.za see what happens


also you prolly have an orignal bf 2 game

but without a valid cd key you wont be able to connect

 

[.geek]

You're most probably banned for <insert any reason possible here>.

 

[KickTheBucket]

Yeah, cos this is the first time he's tried to play online; so he MUST be banned.... [/sarcasm]

You don't maybe have a firewall on your pc that's blocking the necessary ports? Which game are you trying to play?

 

[Carlhead]

Yeah, cos this is the first time he's tried to play online; so he MUST be banned.... [/sarcasm]

You don't maybe have a firewall on your pc that's blocking the necessary ports? Which game are you trying to play?

LOL,

Yeah sounds like a hardware firewall issue... try connecting to random US servers and see if you get the same issue.

 

[.geek]

Yeah, cos this is the first time he's tried to play online; so he MUST be banned.... [/sarcasm]

You don't maybe have a firewall on your pc that's blocking the necessary ports? Which game are you trying to play?

[sarcasm] ..

 

[SkinNY]

um..... i have no problem connect to saix server when i add the server to my favorites.... But my problem is like, for instance in CSS when i go to internet it doesnt detect any local game servers (SAIX or GameZone), but when i type the server ip into my favorites, it respondes and i can connect and play....But it is very irritating because in css my favotites erases itself everytime i launch the game... and it not just CSS, its BF2 and Quake4 that also does that.... Any Suggestions?