Stuck at "Requesting Server List"

[qbert911]

Hi All,

As the title states I cannot get past the "Requesting Server List" when I hit join game.

I am operating behind a proxy and on dialup. I could port tunnel more directly to the server using hosts file if I knew the address of the server list computer.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank You,
qbert911

[cheesemoo0]

My only ideas are that dial-up has a hard time playing anything online and the metaserver should be fairly stressed today. Hopefully it is just the latter and you can play later, but I doubt it with you operating on dial-up.

[qbert911]

Me again. I installed the game on the computer with the modem in it (no proxy to go through) and it load the server list just fine.

I put metaserver-mw.introversion.co.uk in the host file and pointed it to the proxy computers address and then tunneled port 416 to metaserver-mw.introversion.co.uk. Trouble is, it used port 428 the next time (as per the debug.txt file. Is there a way to control what ports Multiwinia uses?

[The GoldFish]

I'm afraid that (or at least I think that), generally, outgoing ports are often treated as "give me a port plz".

However the fact that this solution worked suggests to me that your network is poorly (or perhaps, specifically) configured - you might want to consider revising it? I would have expected the computer with the momem to have acted as a gateway (as opposed to a proxy, but maybe you didn't mean proxy) and forwarded this request on.

[qbert911]

Thank you for the feedback.

Currently I'm using Avirt Gateway 4.2.

Can you recommend other gateway software solutions to try? A quick googling reveals Wingate to be a possibility.

Many Thanks,
qbert911

[frenchfrog]

Isn't there directly a _connection sharing_ utility build in windows since Win98 SE ?