If you are having problems connecting to Generals Online, or people are having trouble joining your games, or if you are having timeout issues while playing online, you probably need to configure your firewall.

http://portforward.com/cports.htm  has a guide to which ports need to be opened.

A guide for configuring your Windows Firewall  (SP2)

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Has this been tested with the linksys routers? I just tested.. and now I am able to wait around game.. choose my gen and spot.. but when the game actually starts it says that i was unable to connect to the other players. It was a nt though.


Maybe it has to do with my dynamic ip. I couldnt change it because when i did (followed the directions on the site) I was unable to connect to ANY of the online games that I play (although regular internet browsing worked).


So I don't know what to say.. but this is the closest I have ever been to connecting to a custom match lol. Good info though regardless.

Linksys routers should work just as well. My router is a Linksys WRT54GL and it worked fine for me. In the end I completely replaced the firmware but that was for better P2P performance.

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Well I went through the steps for my router & the Zero Hour game, but it didn't fix the problem I have. What my network does is it kicks me off based on me entering & leaving rooms or other players entering & leaving rooms that I'm in with a message saying like, Lost connection C&C Generals Zero Hour Online.

Do you have any other TCP/IP intensive programs running at the same time?
Examples are P2P software, MSN, IRC, FTP, etc.

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Nope, but I only know the what one of those abbriviations are. MSN is an instant messenger program I believe. I don't have any of that stuff running. I also think that port fowarding won't fix this. I think it's something else... Every other network I've tried playing over has never done this to me. I did some google reserch & found that many other people are having the same problems on other forums with this network & they weren't able to fix it. The network that causes this problem I think is the WRT54G v5. I'm pretty sure it works on the WRT54GS though. (S, I think stands for speed booster.)

Hmm, I was going to suggest you install a different firmware (ie dd-wrt), but as far as I know the router you mentioned (WRT54G v5) is not supported by it.

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Thank you Renaissance for your constant support on this website.

I notice you setup 3 links but do not know which one to click on and what to do when I click on them (im not very good with computers).

My problem is the same as others, I cannot connect to a game "due to my firewall", or when I do connect, the game is frozen and the connection bar only says that I am connecting, and nobody else.

My firewall is turned completely off, and I cant pinpoint the problem, but im guessing it has to do with my router, and that is when I get confused.

My router is a linksys WCG200-CC whatever that means...

If anybody can help me that would be phenomenal. All I wanna do is play this game online, you know how I feel.

Also, I connect to the cable when I play generals. However, if I decide to go wireless will reconfiguring my router effect anything?

Is router your WCG200 or WCG200v2? (WCG200-CC is not listed)
Also, which game are you playing, Generals or Zero Hour?

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Its actually WCG200v2 I realized after looking on the bottom of it. I am playing Generals. Thanks for the help man...

'shane' from 'pcwintech' deals with port fowarding , , he has his own portforwarding programs named 'simple port forwarding' & 'simple port tester'

have a google search , ,

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umm .. what? lol
i opened the link idk which to click and idk how to know my router type!
when i use patch i get "Missing or Invalid Registry/INI entry" .. so now what?