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    Hosting a Battlefied server - need help

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by jondevon, Apr 14, 2009.

  1. jondevon

    jondevon Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi everyone. I'm interested in hosting my own Battlefield games on the internet, but I'm having some difficulty. I have no problem hosting a LAN game in my own home, but I can't seem to get the internet hosting right. I can't seem to get my server to show up in the list of servers that you refresh in the Battlefield game. Do I have to configure my router a certain way? Do I have to register with Gamespy or something? I would just like the ability to have anyone come join my game. I could really use some quick help on this topic, because everywhere I find answers, they're all different. I've tried lots of different configurations, to no avail. I would really appreciate some good advice. Sorry for the n00bish question. Thanks in advance!

    -jon
     
    jondevon, Apr 14, 2009
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    HTWingNut Potato

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    First of all, how many players? You need significant upstream bandwidth. Most DSL or Cable upstream speeds aren't sufficient for something like BF2 or BF2142 past 8 players.
     
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    I have Fios with 20mbps down and 5mbps up. That should suffice for around 10 players I believe.
     
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    I think I may have gotten it. After setting up my router's port forwarding and my firewall's permissions, I can finally see my computer in the server list in Battlefield. Does this mean I have done everything right? I hope it does. Now how to ADMIN the server is going to be the tricky part, because I have to start learning from scratch!
     
    jondevon, Apr 15, 2009
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