opening ports for multiple ip's

[ripken204]

i have a netgear mr814v3 and i want to play age of empires 2 over lan. the problem is that i need to open ports otherwise the 2 comps cant connect to eachother. but my router will only allow 1 comp to be assigned to an open ports, otherwise i get a port conflict error. now what am i suppose to do here? disabling the router firewall does nothing and setting up dmz does nothing(unless im doing that wrong).

[jimwah]

If you're playing over the LAN then you'll need to open ports on your machines, rather than the router. Disable any port forwarding rules/DMZ you've set up so far in the router & re-enable the firewall. Disable any firewall software on each machine & try again; this assumes both machines are networked correctly (if they both have internet via the router, then this is probably ok).

For a more permanent firewall setup consider adding each machine to the others "trusted zone" in a 3rd Party firewall -- or in Windows Firewall goto Control Panel - Windows Firewall - Exceptions - Add port & put the AoE2 port in there. Hope some of that is of use... GL :2cents: