Win 10 Lan Gaming problems

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This weekend we decided to play some games via LAN. The problem is that even though we could get the LAN setup, internet sharing worked fine, we could not find any LAN games that was hosted by one of the PC's. We all tried hosting the game but no one else could find the game. We all using win 10, we could not even connect to the TS server we hosted on 1 of the pc's. When we did this before using win 7 there was no issues and the games worked perfectly, even connecting to the TS server was simple, but now with Win 10 we could not even connect to the TS.

So we enable internet sharing, and it shared the internet perfectly over the network, we ended up using an online TS server without issues. So I'm just wondering if anyone has had issues playing LAN games in win 10.

We had an ad-hoc wifi connection, and we also just used 2 pc's with a cable to try and see if we could not find the game if one is hosting but nothing worked. We all had the correct IPv4 addresses set etc. Firewalls was set correctly as well. I mean in the case of the TS we can connect to an online server, just not the locally hosted one. All these things worked perfectly before on Win 7, but going back to Win 7 to just play the occasional LAN games is not an option. Anyone with some idea on how to resolve this?
 
The complete firewall was not switched off, as the games are allowed in the firewall settings on public and private networks. Same for the TS server on the hosting PC. TS on the other pc's are all set correctly in their respective firewalls as they did manage to connect to the online server, unless I'm understanding this wrong
 
Japster said:
The complete firewall was not switched off, as the games are allowed in the firewall settings on public and private networks. Same for the TS server on the hosting PC. TS on the other pc's are all set correctly in their respective firewalls as they did manage to connect to the online server, unless I'm understanding this wrong
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Always nice to switch it off to test, that way you ensure its not a port being blocked.
 
I will give that a try today, would you recommend only the host of a game disables the firewall or does all the pc's on the network disable their firewalls? If this is working though, I wonder what has changed since Windows 7, as I know we never disabled firewalls before to play games on the LAN.
 
Japster said:
I will give that a try today, would you recommend only the host of a game disables the firewall or does all the pc's on the network disable their firewalls? If this is working though, I wonder what has changed since Windows 7, as I know we never disabled firewalls before to play games on the LAN.
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Would only be necessary for host to disable.
 
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