DartPro issues and possible solutions

Daffy501

As the title suggests this thread is to post up issues we are having with darts pro and if anyone can help resolve these issue please post them up here , Thanks.

I found this on another darts forum and it may help our problems;

"After struggling for a period, I finally sorted my DartPro issues such that now I can host games as a server. Here are a few things that I picked up along the way which some of you may find useful.

1. When making configuration changes to your wireless router, always make configuration changes using a computer that is hard wired to your wireless router. Do not make changes from a wireless connection. This comes from a NetGear technical advisor on the Netgear website. I was researching how to do Port Forwarding on my NetGear router when I stumbled across this advice. All I know is that I took his advice and my problems are now sorted. Before, I was making changes from different computers which were wirelessly connected to the router. The change looked as if it saved correctly, but it never worked properly.

2. If you have a firewall and you have DartPro installed and running on your machine, you probably already have the DartPro program registered to your firewall. Rather than try to edit the firewall entry for DartPro, just delete the firewall entry for DartPro. Now, the next time you run DartPro, the firewall will alert you and ask if it is OK to allow DartPro to run using the resources it is asking for. Your firewall will see that DartPro wants to use port 47141. Give DartPro permanent rights to perform this action.

3. Let's say you have a laptop and you want to use DartPro from this laptop while the laptop is wi-fi connected to your wireless router. Basically, you want your laptop to be the DartPro server when you host games across the internet on DartPro. The trick here is that when you configure your wireless router (see Step 1.), you must create a rule which opens port 47141 on ....THE IP ADDRESS OF YOUR LAPTOP WHEN IT IS WIRELESSLY CONNECTED TO YOUR ROUTER!


I hope this helps me and others with the problems we are having

ratinakeg

Great find Daffy! I think I might have it set up, try and join my game if you can please.

ratinakeg

Someone called Wackojacko joined my game, so I can host games again (I think;))

ciarraibhoy

ratinakeg wrote: »

Someone called Wackojacko joined my game, so I can host games again (I think;))

That's good news

Daffy501

ratinakeg wrote: »

Great find Daffy! I think I might have it set up, try and join my game if you can please.

Sorry mate i have only just got back home , great that you have it sorted

Daffy501

Ok i thought i had fixed my problem but it's still not working.
I too had a new router installed and checked the IP address and its still the same as when i set the static IP up .
After reading up on the problem at hand i set up a new static on my laptop as i had previously set one up on the desktop in my living room.
I deleted the nat settings for dartpro and reset them up and allowed the computer to tell me that an application was trying to connect to my laptop thriough my firewall , then i allowed the program through the firewall and created a rule so that anytime dartpro connects to my laptop it must go through the static IP i created for the laptop and it must use only port 47141.
On the Dartpro website there is an option you can click on to check if the port is open , its called "canyouseeme".
Tried this and it came back saying that it couldnt see me therefore it is saying that my port 47141 is not open.
Having done all this i tried it out with AndyP but he still couldnt connect to my game.
I read ciarraibhoy's post earlier about the fault lying with the Server and not the client when a connection cant be made due to the server not having set up Dartpro correctly, so i ask anyone out there on Boards "CAN YOU HELP ME" ??

ciarraibhoy

Daffy501 wrote: »

Ok i thought i had fixed my problem but it's still not working.
I too had a new router installed and checked the IP address and its still the same as when i set the static IP up .
After reading up on the problem at hand i set up a new static on my laptop as i had previously set one up on the desktop in my living room.
I deleted the nat settings for dartpro and reset them up and allowed the computer to tell me that an application was trying to connect to my laptop thriough my firewall , then i allowed the program through the firewall and created a rule so that anytime dartpro connects to my laptop it must go through the static IP i created for the laptop and it must use only port 47141.
On the Dartpro website there is an option you can click on to check if the port is open , its called "canyouseeme".
Tried this and it came back saying that it couldnt see me therefore it is saying that my port 47141 is not open.
Having done all this i tried it out with AndyP but he still couldnt connect to my game.
I read ciarraibhoy's post earlier about the fault lying with the Server and not the client when a connection cant be made due to the server not having set up Dartpro correctly, so i ask anyone out there on Boards "CAN YOU HELP ME" ??

What is your firewall setting, if it is set on medium set it to low

Daffy501

ciarraibhoy wrote: »

What is your firewall setting, if it is set on medium set it to low

It is set to low mate. I just spent the last half hour on the portforward website and after going through all they said to i checked to see if my port was open with their "portchecker" program and it is now OPEN hurray.

Daffy501

im going to set another game up on Dartpro , can someone who has it working properly themselves please try joining it so i can see if my efforts have worked

padr81

tryin now daffy

padr81

nothing says your server is not online? try it vice versa cause im not sure about mine.

Daffy501

ok mate are you on as padr??

padr81

yup, i can't join anyones game atm though so dunno if you'll be able to connect to me.

Daffy501

Ah ok mate just tried there and its just saying " waiting for the server to invite you for a game"

its dead frustrating :mad:

padr81

strange anyone should be able to log in, i'll set up another one in case i clicked something wrong.

Daffy501

Still no joy there mate but i dont know if its my end or yours !!

padr81

think it could be both.

padr81

i just used port check and apparently only my udp is open and tcp is closed weird.

Daffy501

Whats the difference?? I checked port 47141 TCP and its open. I didnt check the other one though

padr81

dunno, just wondering why one was open and one closed when they are both set to be open.

Daffy501

Thats weird i didnt know that they were supposed to both to be open !!

Double Top

i have a solution to my problem, throw the f***ing laptop out the window:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

dionsiseire

it must be TCP port open

UDP is not what dartpro operates on

greened

ratinakeg wrote: »

Someone called Wackojacko joined my game, so I can host games again (I think;))

i thought he was dead????

ratinakeg

greened wrote: »

i thought he was dead????

LOL!!!:D:D:D He's not buried yet, could've of been him!;):D

greened

ratinakeg wrote: »

LOL!!!:D:D:D He's not buried yet, could've of been him!;):D

he is. They buried him yesterday in a privae ceromoy. Rummor has it the Jackson 4 put a laptop and a dart board into the grave for him.

ratinakeg

greened wrote: »

he is. They buried him yesterday in a privae ceromoy. Rummor has it the Jackson 4 put a laptop and a dart board into the grave for him.

F#cking brilliant, LOL!!:D:D How did they find out about dartspro and the Rat?:D:pac::D

Kingp35

Seems like a lot of people are having trouble with their Dartpro. I will have a look at any solutions when I get home and try and help people out.

I'm thinking the Darts League might have to be put on hold until we can get it sorted out?

padr81

mine is not working at all and it used to. did just about everything possible, set up a static ip, logged into router and opened port 47141 both tcp and udp or whatever they are called, when i check it says the udp is open but tcp is closed.

Daffy501

padr81 wrote: »

mine is not working at all and it used to. did just about everything possible, set up a static ip, logged into router and opened port 47141 both tcp and udp or whatever they are called, when i check it says the udp is open but tcp is closed.

Sound about right except for the UDP thing , according to Dionsiseire you should only have TCP open as thats the only one Dartpro uses.

are you using the computer wirelessly?? If so then a technician on Netgear says you should make the changes to the router while connected by cable only

Its all in the first post of this thread bud , have a wee look if you didnt

Kingp35

Daffy501 wrote: »

are you using the computer wirelessly?? If so then a technician on Netgear says you should make the changes to the router while connected by cable only

I'm sure it is better to do the changes when connected directly although it's not vital because I managed to set mine up by using my wireless connection.

Haven't used mine in a good few weeks though so I have no idea if it's still working. Will check later.

padr81

tried everything thing ports still not open, interestingly my ip adress when i check it doesn't match the static ip address i set up, anyone know why? Im using an eircom netopia router.

Daffy501

SUCCESS i have just hosted my first ever game on dartpro so thats me up and running i hope. As Dionsiseire pointed out it was my port 47141 not being open that was my problem.
I urge any one who is having a problem to go onto portforward.com and go thriugh the portforward setup again then download their program "PfPortchecker" and see if their port is open. Make sure you DONT have dartspro open when using this checker !!

Start here http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm and select your router and follow on screen instructions.

padr81

done everything on portforward.com and still nothing.

Daffy501

padr81 wrote: »

done everything on portforward.com and still nothing.

Might be worth your while starting from scratch mate and doing it all again eg static ip , nat settings , portforward etc

padr81

yeah, think i'll start from teh beginning

Any Double !

greened wrote: »

he is. They buried him yesterday in a privae ceromoy. Rummor has it the Jackson 4 put a laptop and a dart board into the grave for him.

Dead yes....buried no ! So much plastic was melted down and made into Lego blocks so he can continue to play with kids !

padr81

daffy is a legend, im on, finally, cheers mate

Daffy501

No bother mate , took a while but we got there

Daffy501

If anyone is having problems hosting or joining games on Dartpro gimme a shout and i will try to help.

dionsiseire

Daffy see if you cant hook Double top up, shame to lose him from the league

Daffy501

I already offered to help mate but i think he is having computer issues not just dart pro issues but i will do me best.

dionsiseire

Just show him the bounce it off the wall trick

like a charm

Daffy501

Ok lads for anyone having problems setting up a static IP follow this link and do exactly what it says
http://portforward.com/networking/staticip.htm

And for anyone wanting to forward their port 47141 follow this link and again do exactly what it says

http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm

Both these links are for any router and for xp/vista so everyone should be able to set up dartpro from this

And again if you are having any problems at all no matter how small send me a PM with either your MSN name or SKYPE name and i will help ye out (as best i can:D)

Daffy501

Gonna bump this up for the league matches as it looks like some players are still struggling with Dartpro

aaron34

Hi Daffy501
I would really appreciate your help..I just downloaded Dartpro and followed all the above procedures..But I can still not Use the Dartpro Remote 501..
When I use portchecker that also says Your Port is NOT Open or NOT Reachable.

I am using netgear..

Wayne

Carrickman

Was at this again for a few hours still no joy:mad:

dionsiseire

Same

I'm on Windows 7 and really am struggling with the networking issues. Will report in when I know something

Carrickman

Carrickman wrote: »

Was at this again for a few hours still no joy:mad:

What ye on about, trying to connect online?

You need to download some windows update, worked for me.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=262D25E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en

Carrickman

gilberto_eire wrote: »

What ye on about, trying to connect online?

You need to download some windows update, worked for me.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=262D25E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en

Ok so I have done that could someone try and join my game to see if I am now able to host matches, cheers.
http://www.rusys.nl/GamersList/default.aspx