no ping or player count?

Fri Mar 21, 2003 1:55 am by redemption

Ok, heres my story. i set up a private lan server to test out multiplayer a bit and i can connect to it fine. then i try and go into internet i connect to the global server but every single server has no ping(comes up as ?????) and all the player counts are 0/whatever. if i try to connect it says the server is offline or i have a bad connection to the internet. i also tried the direct ip program in the EXE folder, still nothing. can anyone help me out here.

Fri Mar 21, 2003 8:47 pm by Lu?id

I have to wait a while for the ping and players info to begin showing up on the servers page.

Sat Mar 22, 2003 1:03 am by kaeptn

any firewall running?

first guess...

Sat Mar 22, 2003 2:38 am by redemption

i do have a firewall but i dont have this problem with any other games so i doubt thats it

as for waiting, i turned on mp went and got myself a sandwich, ate it, went to the bathroom, came back and there was still no ping or players.

Sat Mar 22, 2003 12:13 pm by kaeptn

Just to be sure that it is not your firewall do yourself
a favour and try switching it off ... just to test ;-)

For a successful ping your firewall must answer and
send ICMP echo ... if this is both not send nor
answered there ain't no ping ...

I don't know the ports freelancer is communicating on
and what firewall you use but I bet the problems have
to do with your firewall ...

Sun Mar 23, 2003 1:34 am by redemption

ok i tried switching off my firewall and nothing happened, but for some odd reason when i switched it back on it worked :-D

, thx for the help

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