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Cant play fifa online with bro in law but can everyone else?

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  • 02-01-2012 6:48pm
    #1
    petite85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭


    Hi all,

    I am hoping someone can help. I recently got O2 Hotshot broadband and my husband can now play his friends online fifa12 but when he tries to connect to bro in law the connection keeps failing even though both parties remain connected to the internet and both can play against others but just not each other....can anyone tell me how i can fix this or why this is happening?


    NB: my laptop cannot connect to the internet using a wireless, i have to plug the modum into the usb port for a connection. Would this be a contributing factor to the above prob?

    Anyway thanks


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    tobehonestwithy
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭tobehonestwithy


    Hi. Can you Bro-In-Law play online against others? Sounds like he might need to open up/forward his ports & updgrade his NAT Type to 1 or 2 just to be able to play.

    There is some good Youtube videos out there explaining this. I cant look now


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    wcarey1975
    Registered Users Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭wcarey1975


    Just to echo what tobehonestwithy said id say that the ssue is that neither of you two has ports open and as a result neither of you can be host of a game. I had this issue but once the ports openedup the issue was gone.

    W


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    eddhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,781 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    I think you need a divorce, that will solve the issue, he will no longer be the brother in law ! I think there are youtube videos on how to do it


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    petite85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭petite85


    Option 3 seems like a winner hahaha!

    Many thanks for the replies I hope they can sort it out soon as they wrecking my head :D


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    littlesthobo
    Registered Users Posts: 380 ✭✭littlesthobo


    Hi I had the same problem and this worked for me. Copied and pasted from o2 forum from my post there.

    ok. for anyone that wants to try this. got it back to moderate.

    Go to hotshot, security, settings, special applications.

    Next to open ports click add and then do the following one by one

    tcp 80
    tcp443
    tcp4223

    udp3478
    udp3479
    udp3658

    under the heading name put anything you want. i called it psn, it dosnt matter

    so for example the first line should look like this.

    psn on 80 tcp tcp 80

    click apply when done. Hope this helps


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    littlesthobo
    Registered Users Posts: 380 ✭✭littlesthobo


    Ok i logged out there and when i signed back in im strict nat again. Would appreciate any suggestions anyone mite have, im at my wits end. Ive tried everything i could find via google and no joy. Never had this problem with the old 02 stick only with hotshot


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    tgdaly
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭tgdaly


    Anyone figure this out yet? I renewed my contract with 02 yesterday and they gave me the newer version of the hotshot. But now I am gone to nat type 3. Before this I was nat 2 with the older version of the hotshot (that I got when I first joined 18 months ago). Can anyone help, I've no idea why this would suddenly change and I've done everything from putting in DMZ to opening ports


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