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At conference, have Internet, Can't connect to DBserver WAAA!!

Jordan_Yen

By Jordan_Yen,
Posted on: 2011-03-07 16:24 in Player Questions

 

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I really want to play, but I can't I even uninstalled my firewall just in case (but turned on Windows Firewall so I had something).

I can log in to the point of selecting a server, but then it hangs and fails. I've tried several different servers and tried the same server multiple times.

I have perfect Internet access to everything else. Any ideas? Any special options I should know about?

 

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Not sure. A few things of the top of my head:

1. Update your DNS cache just in case. At the cmdline, type "ipconfig /flushdns"
2. Is this a new install? If it's Vista/7, do you have COH set as "Run as Administrator"?

Other more competent people will chime in, but the two points above are worth considering, I think. Good luck!

 

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Originally Posted by Turgenev View Post
Not sure. A few things of the top of my head:

1. Update your DNS cache just in case. At the cmdline, type "ipconfig /flushdns"
2. Is this a new install? If it's Vista/7, do you have COH set as "Run as Administrator"?

Other more competent people will chime in, but the two points above are worth considering, I think. Good luck!
Tried 1.
2. -> been playing on this computer for months and months and months. It's probably being blocked somehow by the hotel. I tried wired and wireless. Full net access, but no CoH

 

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Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
Maybe port blockage:

Try other ports.
command port 80 not recognized

 

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Shameless bump!

Also, is there a way to connect to CoH and protect the traffic? Perhaps a tunnel or proxy of some kind?

 

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Originally Posted by Jordan_Yen View Post
Shameless bump!

Also, is there a way to connect to CoH and protect the traffic? Perhaps a tunnel or proxy of some kind?
I was wondering if you'd chime in again...

You're at a conference. Does your company support a VPN tunnel? If so, VPN to your company, then route your COH traffic through them. That might work to bypass the conference restrictions.

EDIT: Check out this company. Maybe the $7 is worth it to you. http://www.publicvpn.com/

Also, have you tried talking to the conference management team? If you tell them you need certain ports available, they might be able to add your MAC to an exception class to unfetter your traffic more than the general user.