wireless bb and bf2

KELTICKNIGHTT

just got wireless broadband installed after a lot of greaf
the company which provide it asked me if they could install a transmitter tower on my properity,in exchange for free broadband,checked it out to see if safe and ok and it was
have direct link to pc without router,ienabled in pc connections,played cod2 ,fear,sniper elite ,then tryed to play bf2,have lasest patches and also installed bf2 special forces,go on line ,check my stats,everything ok,go to update server,but just keeps searching for servers ,leave it it for 20 mins and still searching,it must connect ,otherwise it would tell me ,but just keeps searching
have turned off firewall and anivirus,still same
any suggestions
cheers

Ballboy

Em wouldnt say its anything to do with ur wireless broadband!! But that sometimes happenins to me that no servers come up! Did u try loggin out and loggin back in a few times!!
Also can u play bf2 at all?? As in by connecting directly to an ip??

KELTICKNIGHTT

can play in single player and can setup my own server to play online and when setup ,go to server and all is ok,just doent stop serching for servers and doesnt find any

Omnipresence

Yeah i've had some issues connecting and its kinda wierd... looks more like a hang... if it takes more than 3/4 mins i restart and try to reconnect and it connects straight away...

BF2 issue i'd say ??

=A

KELTICKNIGHTT

played bf2 at work on eircom bb and was fine and when l try on wireless,no go
it must connect to give me my stats and gives me the latest ad about european bf comming soon,asking me if l want to go to bf website to check out ,l close it ,then do serch of servers and searches and searches and thats it ,

irlrobins

ok did u install bf2, patch to 1.12, then install sf2 and reinstall patch 1.12?

Cos that's what u need to do afaik. You need to reapply the patch after installed sf2.

KELTICKNIGHTT

irlrobins wrote:

ok did u install bf2, patch to 1.12, then install sf2 and reinstall patch 1.12?

Cos that's what u need to do afaik. You need to reapply the patch after installed sf2.

have done all the above
just found out the only way l can play on server is to type in server ip details and goes on server ,no problem,just doesnt give me update when seraching for servers
doesnt make sence

irlrobins

prehaps the ports that gamespy server browser uses are not open?

Silverfish

Stupid question, but have you checked all your internet filters?

Also, I get warnings from my firewall that 'remote whatevers are trying to access my computer' and I have to permit BF2.exe, then I get a list of servers, so it could be something like that either.

TheHairyFairy

Also when searching for servers clear all filters and update server list in its entirity.

Fairy

KELTICKNIGHTT

can get on if l manually put in ip server address and port ,but still no same prob with searching

KELTICKNIGHTT

Silverfish wrote:

Stupid question, but have you checked all your internet filters?

Also, I get warnings from my firewall that 'remote whatevers are trying to access my computer' and I have to permit BF2.exe, then I get a list of servers, so it could be something like that either.

at moment l have firewall down to lowest settings and allow incomming and outgoing for bf2 and access to all ports,even shut down anirus and firewall,still same

KELTICKNIGHTT

TheHairyFairy wrote:

Also when searching for servers clear all filters and update server list in its entirity.

Fairy

does include file planet and buster filters

KELTICKNIGHTT

irlrobins wrote:

prehaps the ports that gamespy server browser uses are not open?

how do l check

Auvers

Please dont use that piece of spyware ridden sh1te that is gamespy, use one of these instead


http://www.qtracker.com/ Freeware
http://videogames.yahoo.com/multiplayer Trial\Nag Screen
http://www.bf2al.com/index.php Freeware (my favourite)

KELTICKNIGHTT

Auvers wrote:

Please dont use that piece of spyware ridden sh1te that is gamespy, use one of these instead


http://www.qtracker.com/ Freeware
http://videogames.yahoo.com/multiplayer Trial\Nag Screen
http://www.bf2al.com/index.php Freeware (my favourite)

should l unstall gamespy from pc

irlrobins

KELTICKNIGHTT wrote:

how do l check

These are the ports that need to be open

UDP 27900, 29900, 29910, 27901, 55123, 55124, 55215, 16567.
UDP range 1500-4999.
TCP 80, 29900, 29901, 29920, 28910, 4711.

irlrobins

Auvers wrote:

Please dont use that piece of spyware ridden sh1te that is gamespy, use one of these instead

by gamespy browser i meant the list of servers that's displayed when you click on multiplayer menu button. Afaik, it uses gamespy servers to get the list of servers available. Correct me if I'm wrong.....

Auvers

irlrobins wrote:

by gamespy browser i meant the list of servers that's displayed when you click on multiplayer menu button. Afaik, it uses gamespy servers to get the list of servers available. Correct me if I'm wrong.....

I meant the standalone gamespy app that comes with BF2, I don’t know where the ingame browser get its server information from, I have only used the ingame browser once and it annoyed me so much that I actively looked for an alternative

KELTICKNIGHTT

irlrobins wrote:

These are the ports that need to be open

UDP 27900, 29900, 29910, 27901, 55123, 55124, 55215, 16567.
UDP range 1500-4999.
TCP 80, 29900, 29901, 29920, 28910, 4711.

do enable in firewall
in fire at present all ports are open to bf2

Silverfish

Have you checked the internet filters, in the multiplayer section beneath where the list of servers should be?

KELTICKNIGHTT

check filters couple of times
wonder is the a prob with it with wireless bb over cable bb

irlrobins

when u say wireless do u mean wireless ISP like clearwire or IBB?

Or that you have a wireless connection from your PC to a DSL modem or what?

I play BF2 over IBB with no probs, as do many others.

KELTICKNIGHTT

irlrobins wrote:

when u say wireless do u mean wireless ISP like clearwire or IBB?

Or that you have a wireless connection from your PC to a DSL modem or what?

I play BF2 over IBB with no probs, as do many others.

company called westnet.there range is longer
same as irish bb
have connection from transmitter sraight to pc with no router or modem as my connection relay connections to other users of service,my connectin is also a moniatoring sataion

jeawan

KELTICKNIGHTT wrote:

just got wireless broadband installed after a lot of greaf
the company which provide it asked me if they could install a transmitter tower on my properity,in exchange for free broadband,checked it out to see if safe and ok and it was
have direct link to pc without router,ienabled in pc connections,played cod2 ,fear,sniper elite ,then tryed to play bf2,have lasest patches and also installed bf2 special forces,go on line ,check my stats,everything ok,go to update server,but just keeps searching for servers ,leave it it for 20 mins and still searching,it must connect ,otherwise it would tell me ,but just keeps searching
have turned off firewall and anivirus,still same
any suggestions
cheers

that sounds like Fastnet BB ? they asked me to do the same , i have irish BB at the moment they shi* tbh the bandwith keep going up and down i hav e2mb line with them and id be lucky to get a 60kb/s off a high speed flie server . im now having the problem they the BF2 Offical server kick you after 200ms which over thereweek end it has being way over 200ms unplayable anyway , but to answer your question i don't think it it the wireless BB

Ruffty^

Just use one of those alternative browsers!!!
The ingame bf2 browser is the worst pile of crap ever. You`d swear EA never made an internet game b4...

If you get the list of servers and change a filter, the entire list disappears. If you get the list of servers and press "update servers" again, the entire list disappears. You can`t even add a server by ip, you can only connect. And when your list disappears you have to quit the game and log in again!

Such a heap of sh1te, I`m so sick of restarting bf2 I deleted all the intros and turned off the crap music, which makes it just about bearable.

KELTICKNIGHTT

jeawan wrote:

that sounds like Fastnet BB ? they asked me to do the same , i have irish BB at the moment they shi* tbh the bandwith keep going up and down i hav e2mb line with them and id be lucky to get a 60kb/s off a high speed flie server . im now having the problem they the BF2 Offical server kick you after 200ms which over thereweek end it has being way over 200ms unplayable anyway , but to answer your question i don't think it it the wireless BB

have 2 mb down and 1 mb up
going through test phase at moment
will be 15 users connected to me in about 1 week,they have to get speed up more as all towers in area where rough setup with each other,will be tweaking it during weeek.have a towera at home at home on water cooling setup as main gaming pc,when on nites,have laptop at work on company eircom bb,never used bf2 online gaming till l got this wireless,have given access to all ports in firewall,still same ,turned off firewall,still the same.every other game runs fine online, ea games seem a pain.wonder unstalling gamespy would help,

KELTICKNIGHTT

Ruffty^ wrote:

Just use one of those alternative browsers!!!
The ingame bf2 browser is the worst pile of crap ever. You`d swear EA never made an internet game b4...

If you get the list of servers and change a filter, the entire list disappears. If you get the list of servers and press "update servers" again, the entire list disappears. You can`t even add a server by ip, you can only connect. And when your list disappears you have to quit the game and log in again!

Such a heap of sh1te, I`m so sick of restarting bf2 I deleted all the intros and turned off the crap music, which makes it just about bearable.

ONLY way l can play online is to manually input server ip and way l go
but just dont update on servers,all port access opened,even turned off firewall,still same

Ponster

As someone already told you, could you try another browser please to see if it works?

The All Seeing Eye is a free download and should list the 5000+ servers even if the gamespy ports are closed.

http://videogames.yahoo.com/multiplayer

KELTICKNIGHTT

Ponster wrote:

As someone already told you, could you try another browser please to see if it works?

The All Seeing Eye is a free download and should list the 5000+ servers even if the gamespy ports are closed.

http://videogames.yahoo.com/multiplayer

l have
just to get online in around about way to get online,shouldn't have to
for now putting in manually
one of clans lm with, are looking into it
checking code of ea and buster for and other settings

Ponster

KELTICKNIGHTT, sorry but I get the impression that you believe that if the browser was working then you wouldn't have any more problems.

In fact, the server browser is often the biggest problem with BF2 players. I believe that most of us now have our fav savers and don't use the browser anymore.

When I want to search for ranked servers, with a ping of < 100 I often get a response of about 12 servers but I get 100+ in ASE which for me is my default BF2 browser.

KELTICKNIGHTT

Ponster wrote:

KELTICKNIGHTT, sorry but I get the impression that you believe that if the browser was working then you wouldn't have any more problems.

In fact, the server browser is often the biggest problem with BF2 players. I believe that most of us now have our fav savers and don't use the browser anymore.

When I want to search for ranker servers, with a ping of < 100 I often get a response of about 12 but I get 100+ in ASE which for me is my default BF2 browser.

not a prob
been using bf2tracker.com to get ip servers,got 6 irish one
,just getting used to not not useing auto in bf2

Ponster

There is a way of course of using ASE and being able to log in auto to a server without having to login first. The solution is in this forum somewhere...

KELTICKNIGHTT

Ponster wrote:

There is a way of course of using ASE and being able to log in auto to a server without having to login first. The solution is in this forum somewhere...

cheers
will read through the forum later to get idea