Dota! port map needed!

[Screwball]

I want to host a server for dota but i cant until i forwarded the port on my router, but it ask for a port map what do i put in here and where do i find it? iv used netstat to get the ports themselves am i doing anything wrong :S

[D0c]

you need to port forward 6112 through to your local ip in your router settings (the http of your router should have something like port forwarding or virtual server)

[Screwball]

yes but i asks for a port map too i dont know what that is nad where to find it!

so i got;

TCP : Start port :6112 End port :6112 Port map : ??????? <---------------- wht do i put here

[Boffykins]

6112

[Screwball]

hmm i tryed the port map the same as the port and it didnt seem to work!

[her0n]

Have you tried putting the ip of the computer you wish to map the port to?

Do what doc said, where it says port map: put your computer's ip (which i presume will be the one to host the game).

[Screwball]

my ip doesnot fit in the port map!

[her0n]

:/ tried without the dots?

Tried looking for your router's manual online?

[Screwball]

doesnt wrk :(

[Boffykins]

What router have you got?

[Screwball]

a dlink dsl-g604t

[Screwball]

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This is what i get when i put my ip in the port map field!

[Boffykins]

try 192.168.1.4:6112

[Screwball]

yep that works fine now thanks for the help :) buy u a drink at i27 or sumthink

[BBW]

Putting an IP in the port map box works? Sorry to drag this dead post up but I'm having the same problem and this came up on a google. ;p

[Demondan]

Putting an IP in the port map box works? Sorry to drag this dead post up but I'm having the same problem and this came up on a google. ;p

Depends on the router...some have another box tacked on the end of the port detail boxes showing something like 192.168.123 [ ]
so you enter in the last digit and the port details in other boxs.
Other routers have pretty much 1/2 boxes that appear to only fit the port details in but actaully take ip addresses.

May help if you said what your router make was...most only differ slightly though.

[Da_Hui]

I have the same modem as the guy above that you helped. I am having the same troubles. I want to host some dota but I cannot because I have not forwarded my ports. I have tried everything and what you have said above. When I try to put my ip into the port map it says please enter the start map as an asn interger. Please help. This is what i enter 59.100.70.xx:6112.

[Bluey]

is that you internal network IP? Because unless you have changed it it will probably be something like 192.168.1. or 192.168.0.

[Boffykins]

nm didn't see Bluey's posts

[her0n]

Wow, I totally wasn't expecting to see my own replies in this thread!

[Diakatarnis]

I played on battlenet the other night with 4 of my mates on my lan agains peoples on the web. OMG THE LAG pinging to my router was 50 - 190ms ???? yet over hamachi i have no issues. does battlenet whore the packets so hard it spamms my router till it begs for mercy?

and that was pinging the ethernet port on the router :| 190ms on lan ... ? w000000t

[her0n]

I think in wc3/dota it's something like.. if you've got one person playing with a rubbish connection it will affect everyone else, as your pc talks to all the players in the game. Or something.

Tis why people run country/ping checks to see who the dead legs might be. Usually the Eastern Europeans.

Oh wait I just re-read your post..Sorry don't know.

[Bluey]

I've played public dota for years and recently over the past month or so the lag and disconnects have become unnavoidable even with country and ping checks so i've been playing more castle wars.
I've always avoided the "pro" scene because of that exact mentality

[Quietus]

A lot of dota is now being hosted with listchecker, which pulls games off battlenet, reducing lag. Might be worth picking it up.

[Dux0r]

yeh dota died a long time ago due to it takeing forever to get into a game where people actualy play the whole thing.

[Dentist]

Hence you play pickup and not random bnet games.

[Da_Hui]

Do I need to set up a static IP?

[Bluey]

well it depends if you have more than one machine on your network, if you only have one it'll probably always pick up the first availalbe ip which will always be the same. The more machines you have the more likely it is to swap between them as the ip expires. Setting up a static IP gets rid of that annoyance, but yes you do have to forward it to a specific IP that it is always useful to be of the machine you want to play dota on ;)

[Disco_Stu]

Oh wait I just re-read your post..Sorry don't know.

I love you her0n :p