Halo trail question

[Aa Defence]

Well, i downloaded the trial, and i wanted to play multiplayer. So i start my own game, my friend tries to get on and he can't. it says he's being rejected by my server. anyone have any idea?

 

[wirm]

:unch: Maybe your (or his) firewall is preventing the connection.

I haven't had too much luck with this game on my lan either. Too much lag for some reason. :hotouch:

 

[Aa Defence]

Umm... don't think thats it, since i don't have firewall on my comp.... maybe if i change norton antivirus

 

[aikepah]

You might have the norton firewall... and Also if you have a router that will probably have a firewall, and you would have to foward the ports.

 

[Aa Defence]

what? i think norton has a firewall thingy, but i'm on a wireless laptop runnin on my homes linksys. So do you think i should just let norton let halo through?

Even if i did that though, if you think about it, wouldn't that make it so i couldn't go on other peoples games?

 

[cyrax]

if its not norton firwall, could be windows firewall. Or some network settings got screwed up.

 

[aikepah]

No... Norton firewall usually disables Windows Firewall, so you would have to allow halo on norton and then, you are using a router so you will have to go into the router settings and allow incoming and outgoing connections on whatever port halo uses.

 

[Aa Defence]

well... the norton i can do, but i don't think there are any restrictions on my internet connection (the linksys is connected directly to the cable)

thanks for the help, i'll try it out =]

 

[Aa Defence]

dang... i tried and it didn't work... any other suggestions?

 

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

Well, won't buying the full version fix things up? I mean, its a relatively old game so u should be able to get it pretty cheap, right? Just a thought. Does ur friend have the full version? If so, maybe that's why he can't connect to ur server.

 

[Aa Defence]

well, he has full but he plays on the trial.

And i don't really earn any money, let alone actually tell my parents i'm playing M games...

ok, so they know i play it, but i'm not that interested in the first place.