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This is a guide to hosting for Warcraft III on Windows XP, however, most of the information in this guide works for vista too and may help vista users as well.

Are other people not able to join your custom games, or accept your arranged teams invitations?

There are a couple of common reasons for this:

1) Your Warcraft III may not be configured to properly forward data to the port the game is checking.

2) A firewall in the router or modem may prevent port forwarding.

3) Windows firewall (or security center on Vista) may prevent the proper ports from being forwarded.


Solutions:

*If you are using vista, make sure you are running the program as administrator*

1) By default Warcraft III uses port 6112. You can check the port your version of Warcraft III uses by following these steps:
  • a. Boot up Warcraft III
  • b. Click Options
  • c. Click Gameplay
  • d. Halfway down the screen you'll see Game Port. This is the port you will need to make sure your Firewall is not blocking incoming or outgoing. This should normally be Port 6112.
I. Disabling and allowing exceptions in Windows Firewall.
-----1) Go to start

-----2) Click on Control Panel

-----3) Click into Windows Firewall

-----4) Click the Exceptions tab

-----5) Scroll down to make sure Warcraft III is on the list, if it is not, hit Add Program and select it from the list.

-----6) Ok out of that back into the Exceptions tab.

-----7) Hit "Add Port."

-----8) Type in Warcraft III for the name

-----9) Type in 6112 for the Port.

-----10) Select TCP.

-----11) Do steps 7-9 again, then check the UDP box.

-----12) Click ok out of that back into the tabs, then move to the Advanced tab.

-----13) You should see a screen similar to Figure 1. Select "Settings" in the ICMP box (some computers do not have this, but you can still access this by clicking settings, and going to the ICMP tab)

-----14) Select the box that says "Allow Incoming Router Request" and make sure it is enabled.

-----15) OK out of all this, and then disable windows firewall (assuming you have another firewall such as AVG, McAffee, Norton, or others on your computer)

-----16) Try hosting now, if you can still not host, the problem is probably in either your router or modem (if you have one).


II. Accessing your router


-----1) Start by clicking start, then click on run.

-----2) Type in cmd

-----3) A black box called the command prompt should come up. From here, type ipconfig

-----4) Several numbers or phrases should come up (see Figure 2)

-----5) Take note of the Default Gateway and the IP Address

-----6) Open up a web browser such as I.E. or Firefox

-----7) Type the Default Gateway number into the URL at the top (example: 192.168.1.104) and press enter

-----8) A box may come up asking for the username and password. By default, the username is admin, and the password is admin

----------Sometimes this doesnt work, and other default username/passwords are: Admin//(no password) or: (no username)//admin

----------If you cannot figure out the password, try contacting somebody that may. Without the password, we aren't able to proceed.


III. Configuring the Router


-----1) Once in your router, you should look for a tab called "Applications and Gaming", "Port Forwarding" or something that takes you to a screen similar to Figure 3.

-----2) Type the name of the program you would like to do this for in the "Name" box.

-----3) Set the port range to 6112, or 6110-6114, or something that contains the port 6112.

-----4) You should have the option of choosing TCP/UDP. Choose both (if you can only choose one, do this twice, and use TCP on one, UDP on the other)

-----5) Under the IP address, enter the number corresponding to "IP Address" that you found in the command prompt at the start.

-----6) Hit Enable, or Save, or whatever you have to do to confirm the setup.

-----7) Look for a tab labeled "Security" or "Firewall" in your router. There may be a box that says "allow incoming router requests." Make sure incoming router requests are allowed.

-----8) Another common problem is the router firewall, so make sure this is off or on the lowest security setting.

-----9) Try hosting now, if you can still not host, the problem may be in your modem (assuming you have one).

The modem is the tiny box that your telephone line goes into. Another cord should also go into this leading to your router.

Your modem can be difficult to access, and you may have to contact your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to find out how the Default Gateway of your modem.

Using a linksys router, you should be able to click the Status tab at the top, and look at the "Default Gateway" under there to get to your router.

The default gateway address for Windstream modems are usually 192.168.254.254 (as is mine).


IV. Configuring your modem.


-----1) We're hoping you have already learned to host by this point, because if not, the modem can be tricky. Log into the modem using the admin/admin username/password.

-----2) You should be redirected to the home screen

-----3) Look for a tab labeled "Port Forwarding" or "Gaming" etc. as shown in Figure 4

-----4) Select a port range containing 6112.

-----5) Type in your modem's IP Address (this could be found under the "Status" tab in the router, next to the line "IP Address"

----------Some modems simply have a list of programs to select from, if this is the case, choose Battle.net (6112) from the list.

----------Some or all of the information may be filled in from this point, but fill in what you can

-----6) After you successfully configure your modem to port forwarding, look for a firewall tab (seen below port forwarding in Figure 4)

----------Some modems don't have firewalls that are able to be disabled, if this is the case, skip step 7

-----7) Turn your firewall off or to the lowest setting

-----8) Save out of all changes up to this point.

-----9) Try hosting.

-----If this doesn't work, try resetting your router.

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*Figure 4 on next post*

*Note* this guide should solve the most common problems for Warcraft users wishing to host, but there is a small array of problems that may not be covered by this guide. Remember: google is your friend :)

Neither me nor www.d2jsp.com nor its affiliates can be held liable for any problems that may be the result of (un)intentionally changing settings in your router, modem, or both.

I hope this helped solve the hosting problem for many users who have tried and failed repeatedly. Donations are always welcome ;)

-Ryan
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