Boyfriend and I cannot play certain games together

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  1. Posts : 71
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    Boyfriend and I cannot play certain games together


    Hi all.
    While I have basic knowledge of this kind of thing, this is beyond my knowledge and I'm hoping to get some insight from you guys.

    There are certain games, specifically games that use P2P connections that we cannot play together without not being able to connect or some kind of ridiculous lag.

    This time, it's DFO, which uses P2P in dungeons. We both have disabled our firewalls, made firewall exceptions for DFO on all ports, tried using Hamachi by setting up a network, however we were unable to ping eachother, and as a last resort have enabled DMZ; all to no avail. Is there anyway he could get a different IP address from me? Playing on the same connection has given us both the same IP addresses.

    Any insight?
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  2. Posts : 2,259
    W7 Professional x64
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    So both of your IP addresses are the same on your computers?
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  3. Posts : 71
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    Thread Starter
       #3

    Sorry, I forgot to mention that we play in the same house and connection. Both of our IP addresses (from whatismyip.com) are the same.
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  4. Posts : 2,259
    W7 Professional x64
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    try on one of your machines opening cmd.exe from the start menu, and type ipconfig /release and hit enter, then type ipconfig /renew

    This might work, and if not, then your wireless or wired router might be causing the problem :)
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  5. Posts : 6,879
    Win 7 Ultimate x64
       #5

    It could well be that the game itself won't accept more than one connection from a single IP. If that is what it is as long as you are both behind the same modem/router there isn't much you can do.

    Is there anyway he could get a different IP address from me?
    From you no. He/you would need to wither get a second IP address from your ISP (which a lot don't/won't do), or a second internet connection.
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  6. Posts : 71
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    LiquidSnak said:
    try on one of your machines opening cmd.exe from the start menu, and type ipconfig /release and hit enter, then type ipconfig /renew

    This might work, and if not, then your wireless or wired router might be causing the problem :)
    We both did that and our IP from whatismyip.com stayed the same, although our IPv4 addresses under IP config are different. Which would be the problem?
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  7. Posts : 6,668
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    pandasaurus said:
    LiquidSnak said:
    try on one of your machines opening cmd.exe from the start menu, and type ipconfig /release and hit enter, then type ipconfig /renew

    This might work, and if not, then your wireless or wired router might be causing the problem :)
    We both did that and our IP from whatismyip.com stayed the same, although our IPv4 addresses under IP config are different. Which would be the problem?
    It could be either depending on the game. Your WAN address is going to be the same so long as you are both behind the same modem. That is the address whatismyip is giving.
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  8. Posts : 71
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    ^So do you think there is there any way to fix this problem besides purchasing another internet connection? It's only on P2P games and to my understanding, this has to do with the same public IP trying to make two connections with the other player.
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  9. Posts : 2,259
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    You could try talking to your ISP and explain that you need two different IP addresses, one for each of your computers. If they try to say they can't do it, threaten them with finding someone who can.
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  10. Posts : 71
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    LiquidSnak said:
    You could try talking to your ISP and explain that you need two different IP addresses, one for each of your computers. If they try to say they can't do it, threaten them with finding someone who can.
    I'll be contacting them tonight then.
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