one router, two computers, one game ,two players...?

Question

ok me and my son want to play the same game on our two computers on the same router and its not letting us. Why is this happening and do i need to configure the router or something?the game is delta force 2 and the router is the linksys nr4041 thanks everyone!!!

Answer 1

This may not be the answer you want, but I think it's accurate, according to the manufacturer of the game.

According to the NovaLogic site, it can't be done, because each of your computers has its own "subnet" ip address given out by the router. But your household only "advertises" the ip address of your router.

DSL/Cable Routers (NAT being Network Address Translation devices like cable/dl routers. Some firewalls act like NAT devices too.) take the IP address given you by your ISP and split it into mutiple addresses on the subnet of your LAN.

To connect to Novaworld each computer joining MUST have its own distinct IP address. This is the address that your ISP gave you and not the one on the subnet of the router.

If you are hosting a game from behind a router you will need to set the outbound port, or trigger and the incoming port the same as the firewall ports for the game.

You can play behind a NAT device. But you CAN NOT have multiple clients behind a single NAT device because of the requirement that each computer connecting must have its on distinct IP address.