fed up with Failed to Join

[MNBob]

I have no idea what has changed but after having not played for a couple of weeks I'm suddenly receiving an endless number of "Failed to Join" messages. The last time this was any kind of a problem is when I broke down and bought a new router a couple months after aoe3 was released.

I've gone so far as to download a packet sniffer and I'm trying to understand how to interpret the data. But right now I'm at a loss for what is wrong.

[Comadevil]

Rebooting the router helps often or u don"t connect all the time?

[MNBob]

Nope that doesn't help. I'm unable to connect to any game right now.

[I__CHAOS__I]

reinstall aoeIII ... I read it somewhere on some tech support site for aoeIII and it did solve a similar problem...

[StrokeyBlofeld]

Strange how it let me join your game instantly bob. It was as if it is something to do with a form of permissions, but I can't understand why this would be.

[NEO_CrAz3n]

If you have DSL and you did a hard reset of your modem it may have reset the firewall settings. That's the problem I had and I couldn't join most games. I opened the right ports and bingo.

I'm not even sure you even have DSL and even if you do you probably already checked that.

[KingKaramazov]

If you have forwarded all the proper ports on your router, this shouldn't be happening.

You're on a home network I presume?

You haven't put in any of those "overrideport" commands in your startup folder for aoe3 that ES stupidly tells you to do if you have problems, have you?


This is a problem I can really empathize with. Hope ya figure it out.

[MNBob]

[quote=""KingKaramazov""]If you have forwarded all the proper ports on your router, this shouldn't be happening.[/quote]
I agree. And considering I didn't change anything on my network between the last time I played and when I suddenly started having problems I have no explanation for the cause unless my router really is going bad.