I apologize if I'm posting this in the wrong forum or if this topic has been addressed before. I am a little frustrated and I've been looking through the forums for a few hours and cannot find a workaround or a fix for my issue.

I am running WinXP (sp2) on a wireless lan (linsys wrt54g).

Here's my issue... I have been able to run a Freelancer server (both with the standard freelancer server as well as flmm) in the past without a problem. Last week when I set up my server and tried to run it I encountered the following problem.

I can set up my server for INTERNET play, however my ping time is either ????? or --- and when I try to join my game, I get an error saying either my internet connection is junk or the server is down.

I cannot see my server on my LAN either.

This makes no sense to me since I have tried hosting on the machine I am playing on as well as a second machine sitting a few feet away.

Some of the steps I've already taken is to check for portforwarding and set my ports to the settings given in the manual. I have also seen port setting in the forums and tried those as well and I still cannot connect.

I've shut down my firewall (sygate) and that does not seem to make a difference.
I've shut down the built in 'windows' firewall and still get the same results.
I uninstalled and reinstalled the game (back to 1.0) and this has had no effect either.

I can log into other servers and play.
Others cannot log into my server.
I cannot log into my server.

Could someone please let me know what I am doing wrong and how to resolve the issue?

Thank you in advance.