[[WotS] Apples]

I appreciate all your help, guys. But lemme say this again. It has nothing to do with port forward. I know all about the port forwarding thing. It's something else, but I cannot figure out what it is. I'm not 100% sure it's not firewall, but I've checked all the other possible firewalls and it does not block it in any way.

I was wondering if it has anything to do with my router. Or was it when I reformatted ? [Read my problem - first post - you will understand what I mean]. Thanks anyways.

[MysticDragon]

I just joined the forum today & saw this post (because I was having the same problem). My problem ended up being that I use sympatico internet (phone lines) & it uses PPPoE. I had recently obtained a new router because my old one died. I found that it was set to Dynamic IP Address in the "Home -> WAN" section. Once I changed it to PPPoE & gave it my required ISP provided username & password, my hosting problems were gone. Of course, I had already dealt with all the static IP address, Port forwarding & firewall requirements for WC3.

Thought I would post this just in case you are still having problems with this & happen to also use this form of Internet access.

[[WotS] Apples]

Yeah, I believe I still am. Apparently, I was asking for a cousin and I'm currently on my own and his computer's nowhere near me. I'm not sure if he uses a phone line, but all I know for sure is that he uses Verizon. Thanks for the info. I'll check again when I use that computer.

[The General]

I had issues too. Turns out WC3 does not stick to one or two ports. No, it actually will go with whatever the hell port it wants

Try setting the hosting computer to DMZ on the router, and that should work. It'll open you up to the internet, though. I had to do DMZ on mine to make hosting work; there's just no other way. Frozen throne is really shoddy how it does the porting.