Alien Front Online Port Forward Quit Working

[The Mr. Video]

Hi, a while ago I port forwarded for Alien Front Online on my AT&T Uverse router and it worked fine. However, I recently tried playing ALO online again but now it doesn't seem to work anymore as I can't join or create matches without getting kicked offline. I've also had trouble with Worms World Party despite port forwarding for that game too. To make things even more difficult, my Dreamcast's ip address does not show up on my router while my dreampi's address does. So far I have tried redoing the port forwarding and port forwarding on .99 instead of .98 to no avail and I'm not sure what to do next.

[Xiden]

Hi, a while ago I port forwarded for Alien Front Online on my AT&T Uverse router and it worked fine. However, I recently tried playing ALO online again but now it doesn't seem to work anymore as I can't join or create matches without getting kicked offline. I've also had trouble with Worms World Party despite port forwarding for that game too. To make things even more difficult, my Dreamcast's ip address does not show up on my router while my dreampi's address does. So far I have tried redoing the port forwarding and port forwarding on .99 instead of .98 to no avail and I'm not sure what to do next.

You'll definitely want to keep it on .98 When I had AT&T it didn't show up until after the dreamcast connected. Make sure you dont have an existing ip conflict too. If you use ip pass through (att dmz equivalent) you shouldn't need to do any additional port forwarding.

[The Mr. Video]

You'll definitely want to keep it on .98 When I had AT&T it didn't show up until after the dreamcast connected. Make sure you dont have an existing ip conflict too. If you use ip pass through (att dmz equivalent) you shouldn't need to do any additional port forwarding.

The thing is the Dreamcast does not show up on my router even when it's online. I did see an inactive device on the network with a .98 ip address. I don't think it's the Dreamcast because the router says it's connected through wi-fi (dreampi is connected through ethernet) and it does not change to active when I connect my Dreamcast online. I wonder if that device is causing an ip conflict.

[OFFWORLDER]

Not sure if this helps (I’m on Xfinity) but I actually set up a DMZ for .98 and everything is working fine now. Also, I noticed that my dreampi did not get noticed until I actually hit connect and I got into the waiting area in game. Then I refreshed my browser and it let me set up the device as normal.

[The Mr. Video]

Not sure if this helps (I’m on Xfinity) but I actually set up a DMZ for .98 and everything is working fine now. Also, I noticed that my dreampi did not get noticed until I actually hit connect and I got into the waiting area in game. Then I refreshed my browser and it let me set up the device as normal.

That's the problem. I can't set up DMZ on my router because it requires that the device be both listed on the devices page and actively connected to the router. My Dreamcast does not show up in the device list even after refreshing the page while it's connected the internet. That's why I port forwarded because it allows me to enter a static ip to forward ports on.

[Xiden]

Not sure if this helps (I’m on Xfinity) but I actually set up a DMZ for .98 and everything is working fine now. Also, I noticed that my dreampi did not get noticed until I actually hit connect and I got into the waiting area in game. Then I refreshed my browser and it let me set up the device as normal.

That's the problem. I can't set up DMZ on my router because it requires that the device be both listed on the devices page and actively connected to the router. My Dreamcast does not show up in the device list even after refreshing the page while it's connected the internet. That's why I port forwarded because it allows me to enter a static ip to forward ports on.

Are you certain you are looking in the right spot? ATT definitely allows you to specify an IP. Its not called dmz on a att router though

[The Mr. Video]

Are you certain you are looking in the right spot? ATT definitely allows you to specify an IP. Its not called dmz on a att router though

I'm certain that I am looking in the right spot. I followed the instructions for PACE/2WIRE routers on this page https://www.att.com/support/smallbusine ... KM1188700/. My router calls it DMZPlus, but it seems like the other ATT routers call it IP Passthrough.

[Scrivani]

Quake 3 Arena let you know dreamcast ip on final connection step , can you check that out?

[The Mr. Video]

Quake 3 Arena let you know dreamcast ip on final connection step , can you check that out?

I've practically got the ip address memorized from the amount of times playing Q3 lately . It shows a .98 address whenever I connect.

[The Mr. Video]

I'm starting to wonder if that rogue .98 address registered in the router came from when I connected dreampi through a wireless repeater using wi-fi. Maybe the port forward no longer works because I stopped using the repeater. If that's the case, I may have to reset the device list to reclaim the ip address and reassign it to ethernet since my router doesn't seem to have a way to forget individual devices.

Edit: While I was typing this, I had Quake 3 running and was trying to bring up the server list to no avail. After posting this, I refreshed the server list and now it works fine all of the sudden. Wait a minute or two and all the sudden it can't connect to game servers again. I have no idea why my Dreampi is so erratic with whether or not it wants to let me connect to servers.