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Change ports in Call of Duty 4 (PC)

atkbobatkbob Registered User regular
edited January 2008 in Games and Technology
The problem is that my ping is too high when trying to connect to servers in COD4. I'm using a university connection in residence (in Ontario), and even though the speed isn't amazing, I get pings of 30-70 in TF2, but 250-700 in COD4. This makes it very difficult to connect to servers, and once on one, play without jitters.

Now, I don't know a whole lot about ports and what not, but am I right in saying that opening/altering ports in the game could help fix this problem? If so, how can I go about doing this? Normally I would just go to the options menu and do this, but there's no option. Also, what would I change the port/s to? It should be noted that I'm not using a router, and I'm using Vista (I don't know if that's important).

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  • slash000slash000 Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    What port is TF2 running on?

    Maybe you could change it to that port.


    But then, would it cause issues for you trying to connect to servers?

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  • BecomingBecoming Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Rightclick on the shortcut you start the game with and select properties.
    In the target line add +set net_port <port here> (i.e. 28961)

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  • atkbobatkbob Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    The problem is that there's no option to change ports in COD. Normally, in other games, you would just go to Multiplayer Options or whatever and put a new number for "Ports", but nothing like that exists in COD.

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  • atkbobatkbob Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Becoming wrote: »
    Rightclick on the shortcut you start the game with and select properties.
    In the target line add +set net_port <port here> (i.e. 28961)
    I have COD on steam, but I'll see if I can find something like that.

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  • atkbobatkbob Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Ok, I tried that, it didn't help.

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