Call Of Duty(waw) Connection Problems - WiiTalk

g-man · 26-02-2009, 10:00 AM

Hi Everyone,

Looking for a wee bit help, .....Does anyone know why, for whatever reason the game will not let me play online with 1 of my added friends?? It works with ALL the others, but not this particular one!! We have both tried public game and private games but it will not work!!!! but works for all my other friends!!! ...weird!

If were both added by a third party,then it works, but wont work for just the two of us!

Nicko · 26-02-2009, 10:07 AM

Nothing you can do about it I'm afraid, other than attempting a bit of port forwarding.

g-man · 26-02-2009, 10:26 AM

Would a Wii LAN Adaptor help solve the issue??

Nicko · 26-02-2009, 10:33 AM

Very doubtful. It's not an issue with your connection to the internet, more with the compatibility between yours and your friends connections.

Are you or your friend on Virgin by any chance?

Ricksta7 · 26-02-2009, 10:40 AM

I used to have a few problems with waw on the Wii and am also on Virgin.
I ended up doing the old port forwarding and didn't seem to make a great deal of difference. Since getting CODwaw on the 360 it seems alot smoother in connecting, Saying that though, I had a little trouble at one point connecting to Nicko the other night, 99% of times connects no bother though

Skooshbag · 26-02-2009, 11:17 AM

I'm on Virgin cable and I don't have any problem entering games (I haven't had any with or against friends though) mebbe 1 out of 10 ends prematurely due to server error but thats it, even since I first posted about a jumpy laggy type problem there has been no more, each game has went as smooth as a baby's bum

liewe89nl · 26-02-2009, 03:09 PM

First of all, it's a very common problem.

It is due to firewall issues, I have tried port forwarding but it doesnt work.
But I do have the solution, but not everyone will be able to implement it.
What I did was created a static IP address that I use for my Wii, and made a DMZ host on my router with this IP address. Basically what this does is grant this IP address access to all resources, with NO FIREWALL at all.
So if you can access your router settings, look for DMZ host.
For it me it was found under 'advanced settings>NAT'
If there is any other way for you to disable the firewall at your router, I'm sure it will work as well.

Hope this helps for you, and/or others

Hurdygurdy · 26-02-2009, 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by liewe89nl

First of all, it's a very common problem.

It is due to firewall issues, I have tried port forwarding but it doesnt work.
But I do have the solution, but not everyone will be able to implement it.
What I did was created a static IP address that I use for my Wii, and made a DMZ host on my router with this IP address. Basically what this does is grant this IP address access to all resources, with NO FIREWALL at all.
So if you can access your router settings, look for DMZ host.
For it me it was found under 'advanced settings>NAT'
If there is any other way for you to disable the firewall at your router, I'm sure it will work as well.

Hope this helps for you, and/or others

Last time i made a static IP address my router only let me wii connect, and blocked everything else trying to use my router

baldy99 · 27-02-2009, 05:48 AM

sorry I know i probably sound stupid but how do you know what ip address to put in? will it be my freinds ip? and what port?

liewe89nl · 27-02-2009, 10:43 AM

well your router usually has a range of ip adresses
between 192.168.1.0 - 192.168.1.255
I read that it requires you to change this range, and then make the DMZ host lay outside of that range. But for me this was unnecessary. Maybe this works for hurdygurdy?

@baldy:
first you have to access your router settings, if you are connected to your router right now try going to:
http://192.168.1.1/ or http://192.168.0.1/
if you are asked for username and password, try admin + admin OR user + user. If you get access try looking for DMZ host.