19 Jan 11, 07:19PM
I personally think the ping on your router doesn't matter but I could be wrong. You only have to forward the ports every time you reboot if the Local IP of your AC server changes. To get around this, you should configure the server with a static IP e.g. 192.168.2.2 (You should check with your router to make sure that this is within the range of valid IPs, sometimes routers make you use numbers 100-255 for the last digit of the IP).
It sounds like you found firewall/blocking rules on your router. :? Normally you don't need to mess with those. If you setup port forwarding correctly normally the router handles adding exceptions to built-in firewalls/blockers. I know that my old router sometimes got screwed up with firewall exceptions so I had to completely remove the port forwarding entry and re-add it.
Do you have any firewall/security software running on your server? It could well be blocking network traffic. Either turn it off completely (not recommended) or add some kind of exception for the AC server application and/or ports you're using.
If your server registers sometimes but not others, then I'd say that it's a server configuration problem, perhaps your server is being rejected by the masterserver, but I've never run a server so I can't say for sure.
It sounds like you found firewall/blocking rules on your router. :? Normally you don't need to mess with those. If you setup port forwarding correctly normally the router handles adding exceptions to built-in firewalls/blockers. I know that my old router sometimes got screwed up with firewall exceptions so I had to completely remove the port forwarding entry and re-add it.
Do you have any firewall/security software running on your server? It could well be blocking network traffic. Either turn it off completely (not recommended) or add some kind of exception for the AC server application and/or ports you're using.
If your server registers sometimes but not others, then I'd say that it's a server configuration problem, perhaps your server is being rejected by the masterserver, but I've never run a server so I can't say for sure.