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Brandy Pearson

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Oct 28, 2002, 9:35:33 PM10/28/02
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Hey all

I am just curious, is it possible to play modem games with warcraft 3, i
mean just dialing up a friend's modem and playing, not over battle.net (my
connection is too slow only 56k modem in Australia!) and not over tcp/ip??

Thanks!

Leprechaun


Steven Ung

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Oct 28, 2002, 9:45:01 PM10/28/02
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"Brandy Pearson" <bpea...@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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1. Get LanCraft. Do a search in Google.com. I'm sure you can find this easily by typing "Lancraft
Warcraft 3"

2. Make sure you have ICQ/MSN etc with your friend to co-ordinate this easily.

3. Determine your friends IP address (if it is dynamically assign). You can also search google.com
to find links that your friend could use to find his IP address. Since you're going to connect to
him, he must inform you his IP address.

4. Ask your friend to create a "LAN game" and wait for you. Routers/firewalls are best to be
disabled temporarily to isolate possible problems.

5. You simply use Lancraft, typing in his IP address in the box provided, start / launch WarCraft,
select LAN play and voila.. :-)

(Haven't really tried it on dial-ups but it seems to be no problem for ISDN with Fixed IP.
Theoratically speaking, it should be the same, whether its on fixed ip or dynamically assign.)

HTH
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xzavior

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Oct 29, 2002, 1:34:41 AM10/29/02
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If you both are using WinXP and have high speed connections you could use
VPN and it works just as good.
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Luc The Perverse

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Oct 29, 2002, 1:34:45 PM10/29/02
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"xzavior" <xzavi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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YOu need win XP to do this?

-LTP

:)


xzavior

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Oct 29, 2002, 4:10:08 PM10/29/02
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No but it is easier with XP.

Amit

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Oct 29, 2002, 11:20:24 PM10/29/02
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"xzavior" <xzavi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> If you both are using WinXP and have high speed connections you could use
> VPN and it works just as good.
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How does one go about this?


Luc The Perverse

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Oct 29, 2002, 11:31:20 PM10/29/02
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"Amit" <ami...@d.e.l.e.t.e.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Learn the OS. It is not that hard. Use the help file

-LTP

:)


xzavior

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Oct 30, 2002, 2:12:46 AM10/30/02
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It is in the network connections setup wizard thing.

BTBB

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Nov 24, 2002, 8:29:34 AM11/24/02
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have you actually got VPN to work? Do you need to use Lancraft with VPN?

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xzavior

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Nov 24, 2002, 10:58:45 PM11/24/02
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Yes I use VPN all of the time. No you do not need Lancraft because with
VPN it is like both of your computers are on the same network except that
they are connected over the internet.

Steven Ung

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Nov 24, 2002, 11:51:10 PM11/24/02
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"xzavior" <xzavi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Yes I use VPN all of the time. No you do not need Lancraft because with
> VPN it is like both of your computers are on the same network except that
> they are connected over the internet.


One question begging for an answer is whether it would be easier to setup VPN
than actually using LanCraft.

However, since VPN will make you part of the network, searching for a game would
essentially be easier, I guess.
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xzavior

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Nov 25, 2002, 12:20:09 AM11/25/02
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Steven Ung wrote:
> "xzavior" <xzavi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:VdhE9.3903$fk2.17...@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
>> Yes I use VPN all of the time. No you do not need Lancraft
>> because with VPN it is like both of your computers are on the same
>> network except that they are connected over the internet.
>
>
> One question begging for an answer is whether it would be easier to
> setup VPN than actually using LanCraft.
>
> However, since VPN will make you part of the network, searching for a
> game would essentially be easier, I guess.
Since I have never used lancraft before so I wouldn't know. I did the
whole VPN thing before i learned about Lancraft.

Steven Ung

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Nov 25, 2002, 12:15:15 AM11/25/02
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"xzavior" <xzavi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Steven Ung wrote:
> > "xzavior" <xzavi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> > news:VdhE9.3903$fk2.17...@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
> >> Yes I use VPN all of the time. No you do not need Lancraft
> >> because with VPN it is like both of your computers are on the same
> >> network except that they are connected over the internet.
> >
> >
> > One question begging for an answer is whether it would be easier to
> > setup VPN than actually using LanCraft.
> >
> > However, since VPN will make you part of the network, searching for a
> > game would essentially be easier, I guess.
> Since I have never used lancraft before so I wouldn't know. I did the
> whole VPN thing before i learned about Lancraft.

Prolly, the next step would be to tell the original poster and possibly me, on
how to setup the VPN and what are the necessary hardware/software/technologies
in order to accomplish this. :-)

xzavior

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Nov 25, 2002, 4:55:15 AM11/25/02
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If you both/all using WinXP then the stuff is built into the OS. If you
are using anything else then i do not know what to do. On the hosting a
machine set it up to accept incoming VPN connections and on the client
machine set up a new outgoing connection to the host machine. You do both
of these with the connection wizard program. It will guide you through it
all.

Steven Ung wrote:
> "xzavior" <xzavi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:dqiE9.3925$uQ2.17...@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
>> Steven Ung wrote:
>>> "xzavior" <xzavi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>>> news:VdhE9.3903$fk2.17...@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
>>>> Yes I use VPN all of the time. No you do not need Lancraft
>>>> because with VPN it is like both of your computers are on the same
>>>> network except that they are connected over the internet.
>>>
>>>
>>> One question begging for an answer is whether it would be easier to
>>> setup VPN than actually using LanCraft.
>>>
>>> However, since VPN will make you part of the network, searching for
>>> a game would essentially be easier, I guess.
>> Since I have never used lancraft before so I wouldn't know. I did
>> the whole VPN thing before i learned about Lancraft.
>
> Prolly, the next step would be to tell the original poster and
> possibly me, on how to setup the VPN and what are the necessary
> hardware/software/technologies in order to accomplish this. :-)

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Steven Ung

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Nov 25, 2002, 5:31:35 AM11/25/02
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"xzavior" <xzavi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> If you both/all using WinXP then the stuff is built into the OS. If you
> are using anything else then i do not know what to do. On the hosting a
> machine set it up to accept incoming VPN connections and on the client
> machine set up a new outgoing connection to the host machine. You do both
> of these with the connection wizard program. It will guide you through it
> all.


Is it Start, Help and Support, VPN ? :-)

If it is, then I believe you that it can be easily setup using WinXP. Thanks for
the guides, xzavior.

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