<p>Are there any other options apart from replacing the router?<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 15, 2011 7:19 PM, "InuYasha Meiji" <<a href="mailto:inuyasha.meiji@gmail.com">inuyasha.meiji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Personally I use a<br>> <br>
> <br>> D-Link DGL-4500 GamerLounge Xtreme N Gaming Router<br>> <br>> <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/routers/d-link-dgl-4500/4505-3319_7-32748872.html">http://reviews.cnet.com/routers/d-link-dgl-4500/4505-3319_7-32748872.html</a><br>
> <br>> I have used it since 2005 and only had to replace it once due to a <br>> thunderstorm I didn't get eveything turned off and unplugged in time. <br>> It ost me only 80.00 us at my local Staples. Hint: don't try to boost <br>
> things by turning on GameFuel. It works great for me, easy GUI, loop <br>> back works great and gets my friends on even half way around the world.<br>> <br>> I can't remeber the link, but when I was shopping for it, there was a <br>
> list I had found on the OSGRID forums of what routers had loopback and <br>> which didn't. Maybe someone still has it.<br>> <br>> Good luck and keep it up. It took me so long to get things going.<br>> Thanks to friends in this list.<br>
> InuYasha.<br>> <br>> <br>> On 8/15/2011 2:05 AM, Guardian wrote:<br>>><br>>> Hmmmm, OK.. that sounds logical. How do I get around this? Without <br>>> buying a new router as there would be no way of knowing if it supports <br>
>> loop back until its in and running.<br>>><br>>> On Aug 15, 2011 4:27 PM, "Gary Beck" <<a href="mailto:gab4gab@gmail.com">gab4gab@gmail.com</a> <br>>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:gab4gab@gmail.com">gab4gab@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>> > If you use a host file on the server to resolve <br>>> <a href="http://myusername.dyndns.org">myusername.dyndns.org</a> <<a href="http://myusername.dyndns.org">http://myusername.dyndns.org</a>> to 192.168.1.251 <br>
>> that can cause the handshake to fail. The server will hand the viewer <br>>> [192.168.1.251 + the port of the region] as the address to use for the <br>>> UDP handshake. That will fail from outside your lan.<br>
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