Traveling, can't connect to COH

I'm visiting my parents this week and have been using their home network, but for some reason I can't access the game.

Last night and this morning, I could get all the way to the logon screen, (though I did get the "Connecting #1..." notice on the updater screen before it connected, which is unusual) but when I try to logon, I get the "Can't connect to DBserver" message.

I was just able to download and apply the patch, so I don't think it's associated with the problems others were having this morning, and it happens on more than one computer. Could this be a port issue on the local network? My brother runs the network, and I'm sure he'd be willing to do some reconfiguration if I asked.

Any recommendations on tracking down what the problem is?

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Knight Court--A CoH Story Complete 2/3/2012

ISP issue
Router issue

One of these is the problem... unless it's a software firewall that's confused about where you are, maybe.

I don't know how to track it down specifically, but get PingPlotter Freeware, and go find another post with that in it. It could also be Ping Plotter.

In a recent enough thread post, several server IPs are mentioned, use those to ping with in an unlimited, 1 second survey. Repeat for several of them. You may find you can't get to them, and that is the issue.

Don't worry if you get to Chicago and then the last couple don't work... they turn off pings at those servers, you're there.

Hope that gets you somewhere close to the answer.

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August 31, 2012. A Day that will Live in Infamy. Or Information. Possibly Influence. Well, Inf, anyway. Thank you, Paragon Studios, for what you did, and the enjoyment and camaraderie you brought.
This is houtex, aka Mike, signing off the forums. G'night all. - 10/26/2012
Well... perhaps I was premature about that whole 'signing off' thing... - 11-9-2012

http://www.pingplotter.com/

from my stickypost in Zloths stikythread.

...that sounds weird..anyways. Good luck, Fin.

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