Okay folks. Every once in a while, I make a post about not being able to host .

>>This problem includes W:A, W3D and W4M<<

I spent hours yesterday, doing many things discribed on the threads, and even my own thread . While they should help, they didn't, as I switched my router to a Linksys AM200 and disabled its use as a firewall (using a software firewall for that purpose, Comodo firewall Pro) .

So please bear with me. I am experienced with PCs but this thing is frustrating to a fault .

First of all I wanted to perform the famed port forwarding .
The thought of doing it is lame, as I turned off the firewall on my router as you can see here .
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e310/Morgoth_Bauglir/0001.jpg

I tried playing while having the router firewall off and still do, but I cannot host . I can only play other people's games . My comodo firewall allows TCP/IP connections as you can see here.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e310/Morgoth_Bauglir/0002.jpg

The problem , as I can understand, is that my router still acts as a darned firewall even with the option turned off. So I tried doing a static IP (having turned off DHCP ) and it still doesn't work . I currently have a static IP as you can see here .
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e310/Morgoth_Bauglir/0003.jpg

I have turned off DHCP as you can see here .
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e310/Morgoth_Bauglir/0004.jpg
I know the port needed for W:A is 17011 TCP and I have turned it on here
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e310/Morgoth_Bauglir/0005.jpg
This router has "Port Range Forwarding" and also "port triggering" I tried using both (not at the same time) none worked.
Heres a pic from it
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e310/Morgoth_Bauglir/0006.jpg
So please help me solve this with W:A first, and then with W4 and W3D.
Also if you would, tell me which ports are needed for W3D and W4 .

Thanks to everybody that wants to help .

In the screen in the last picture, enter 9 in the last edit field (to make the IP as 192.168.1.9).

Port forwarding is necessary because routing involves NAT (Network Address Translation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation)), which hides your computer from the Internet (and by default makes it impossible to connect to your computer directly from the Internet). This gives your computer a different IP address (in your case 192.168.1.9). If you don't want that behavior and have only one computer behind the router, you can forward all incoming connections by specifying a range such as 1-65535 in the last screen. Make sure to enter your LAN static IP (192.168.1.9) in the "IP Address" column.

i can host thanks but i still haev the problem with Worms 3D and I dunno what ports are needed for ORMS4. Can you provide me with a safe service pack 2 for the W3D game? Or do i have to put both ? I did both before but none worked, see my other post. thanks

I don't know what ports do 3D Worms game use. The only thing I could recommend is an all-port forward (1-65535).

Check on their respective websites in the support section, http://worms3.com and http://wormsmayhem.com

EDIT: because I'm nice...

Worms 3D:
What is the revised port information for Internet connections and firewalls?
To ensure successful Internet usage the following port information is provided.
- In game : TCP : 5911
- Front end : UDP : 5911
- GS IRC : TCP : 6667
- GS Search Manager : TCP : 29901
- GS Custom Ping : UDP : 13139
- GS List Request : TCP : 28900
- GS Incoming : UDP : 6500
- GS Heart Beat : UDP : 27900
- GS Connect Manager : TCP : 29900
- Outgoing only: HTTP : TCP : 80

Worms 4 Mayhem:
The ports that the game requires to be open are as follows:

TCP Ports
TCP 80 (outgoing data only)
TCP 5911
TCP 6667
TCP 28900
TCP 29900
TCP 29901

And for UDP
UDP 5911
UDP 6500
UDP 13139
UDP 27900

thanks for the trouble dude :D
But I still cant make my worms 3d work . After I patch it it tells me C++ error as u can see in my other thread .:confused: