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Network Woes

symbolsorsymbolsor Registered User regular
in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
This has been driving me up a wall for a week now. My SO and I have been playing Bad Company 2 online, everything has been going great until it started kicking a person off when the other connected. I guess this is just a problem that happens in certain games when you have two users on the same connection. They both use the same port numbers and the router gets confused about which computer to send the data to. NAT is supposed to take care of this or I think it is anyway, my network understanding is pretty low. Anyway, I don't see any options for NAT on my router. D:
Spoiler:

Things I've tried:
Using client ports on both computers (27013 on mine, 27018 on hers)
Resetting the router to it's defaults
Disabling on-board sound
Rebooting the router
Starting Steam in Admin mode

Specs I have:
Windows Vista
AMD Athlon 6000+
8800GT
4 Gigs of RAM
Soundblaster X-FI

Specs she has:
Acer Aspire AS8735G-6502 Laptop
Windows 7
Intel Core 2 Duo T6600
Geforce GT240M
4 Gigs of RAM

My router:
Belkin F5D8235-4

Is there something I'm not doing correctly or does my router just suck?

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  • Mr. ButtonsMr. Buttons Registered User regular
    have you tried this?
    [URL]http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/12736800-post23.html[/URL] wrote:
    system_ghost found this solution on EA's forums.
    Props to him !

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    Okay we figured it out. No need to screw with your router. Here's the fix:

    On both your steam clients:
    1. Go to Steam's My games menu
    2. Right-click on the BFBC2 and select Properties
    3. From the General tab, click the Set launch options button
    4. Add a different client port number on each machine between 27005 and 27032 in the following format:
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    +clientport 270XX
    (Do not use 27020). I used 27013 and he used 27018.
    5. Click OK

    That solved our problems. I should also mention we haven't had to do this for any other game we play over steam. So the issue seems only to concern BFBC2. Hopefully will be fixed in the future. I've been sitting here typing this and watching him play and I'm itching to crush some skulls. Good luck and have fun.

    oh hey, look... turns out I should have read your post a little better.. looks like that's exactly what you've already tried

    Steam / / TF2 Backpack
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