High Latency?

[cantaloupe]

Ok so i have pretty decent internet. High speed airswitch, coming from a router, i have a linksys adapter hooked up to my computer. And yet when i'm on battle.net sometimes people say i have red bars next to my name - any explanations? Also, when I create a game... hardly anyone will ever join. When my friend tries to join my game it says that my latency is too high. Is there some setting or something that can be fixed/changed to solve this problem? also... when i finally do get a group of people in one of my games, its lagged out. I thought it was my firewall, but when i took it off i still got the lag. Can anybody help me out?

[SuiCidAl-KiSmEt]

Wireless router... the reason I can't play any games online anymore... well, my problem is that I might be in a super large residential area with TimeWarner and that my router is poorly placed..

Anyway, you should portforward, it sets open a port for the router, StarCraft will use that port to get on the internet properly.

Just know your router's model number (located on the bottom of your router) and which game your trying to port (StarCraft).

http://www.portforward.com/cports.htm
http://www.portforward.com

[SilverCrusader]

maybe your not as close as a connection. But if u do have a wireless router that might be the problem. Lag is caused usually by only 1 person, but many people that are too spread apart in the world might lag as well, even if they all have decent internet connections.

[cantaloupe]

ok... so I did what you said... However i could only open one of the ports (the "starcraft 1" port, with the TCP protocol) I went on and created the "starcraft2" UDP application port... and when i went to add it to my hosted applications i got an error that said: Starcraft2 cannont be mapped. The port or ports are in use by another appllication
Thats when i realized...I have another office pc that has an internal network adapter...it is coming through the same router. Is this my problem? if not does anybody have any ideas?

[BrotherGreen]

coming from a router,


I also have linksys wireless router.

You could have T1, you'll still have lat when trying to make games.

Sorry bud.

[cantaloupe]

whats t1?

ok i found out what t1 is, don't have it... have dsl

anybody have any other ideas?

[BrotherGreen]

I meant. You could have something as good as T1, and you'd still have lat with a wireless router. Its because the router uses bandwidth

Theres no real solution buddy.

Other than getting a different connection.

[cantaloupe]

ok, thats what i'd heard...I wanted to hope it wasn't true. lol, that sux. o well.

[hammocksleeper]

ok... so I did what you said... However i could only open one of the ports (the "starcraft 1" port, with the TCP protocol) I went on and created the "starcraft2" UDP application port... and when i went to add it to my hosted applications i got an error that said: Starcraft2 cannont be mapped. The port or ports are in use by another appllication
Thats when i realized...I have another office pc that has an internal network adapter...it is coming through the same router. Is this my problem? if not does anybody have any ideas?

yeah, that could be. you should probably find out what is using that port that you are trying to map to starcraft. once you forward both TCP and UDP you will likely have no more problems.

[cantaloupe]

is it possible that that port is being used BECAUSE the other pc is connecting through the same router? do you think that is what it is seeing when it says the port is being used by another application?

[EvilEmpire]

Huh port 6112 being used by another program?! Thats almost impossible.. Maybe that second computer you say it separates you from the router.. Maybe if you make it so that this PC's adaptor-thingy allows port 6112 UDP/TCP also? Or that the port is forwarded to that PC..
not much into routers here...

[cantaloupe]

yeah idk, i forwarded port 6112 for TCP but it wouldn't let me for UDP

[Sil3nt]

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[cantaloupe]

have you port/forwarded?

[Sil3nt]

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[EvilEmpire]

I dont have a router.... Plus i wouldn't have a clue, and my dad wouldn't let me:(
Whats the big deal every one wanting a router?! Maybe its all down to your ISP? I have this friend of mine in my city he's on a different ISP from mine and whenever he creates game always says the litency is too high, but he doesn't lag in-game.. Just weird stuff coming down to old b.net servers? And it is UDP after all, crappy stuff.

[Ahzz]

norton sucks ass. It's like worst firewall/antivirus whatsoever program I know

[cantaloupe]

I secound that. Norton is a virus of its own! It does Jack didley! completely blows, and its firewall leaks...BAD. Hopefully the next rts blizzard puts out will have a MUCH better online battle sight. sounds like b.net is far from ideal.

[Gyvulys624]

i have norton and i love it, i do have the hosting issue though. I just forwarded the ports on my linksys (better than netgear) router and put in the norton firewall config. It didn't work, but i'll wait to restart my comp before i start looking for more solutions, too lazy now.

[GroG]

I have Norton too, he tells me every day to update him and I don't. Begging bastard needs to earn his own damn money instead of trying to get mine.

Don't even get me started on how he always tries to do a "system checkup" whenever my fiance logs on.. lowlife scum.

[U-238]

lol, Nortons = bad bang for your buck.

Get AVG. It's much better. Even the free version pwns nortons. With Nortons 2006 you need at least 512 MB of memory. Probably closer to 1g. The reason? Norton's requires at least 256 MB of memory. Windows XP runs good on 256. Thus that takes out 512 pretty quick. Add to that other startup apps and then whatever you're trying to do and that = one slow compy.


As for the port forward it partily is the old B.net servers. Remember people that Starcraft was made in 1998. The fastest thing back then was 56.6 kbps dail-up. Not 300k dsl.