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JMC47: Thanks for the reply! I've tried disabling the firewall completely, with no change.

Grrr. Yeah. I've seen users run into bad host before; but I really don't have any idea what causes it or how to fix it.

(11-19-2014, 07:39 PM)Assebasse Wrote: [ -> ]I can forward on my router, but as I live at a dorm there's an external router of some sort, to which I have no access.

If you want to use netplay with people who aren't also in the dorm (i.e. on the same LAN as you), being in a dorm will make it impossible for you to host a netplay session. The other person will have to forward ports to let you connect, unless that other person also lives in a dorm, in which case netplay with that person is impossible. Living in a place where somebody else controls the networking environment leaves you with many insurmountable networking limitations.

UDP netplay works for most people in a dorm. That's why this is unusual.

Both TCP and UDP require port forwarding to allow inbound connections, so I don't see how it could work if you don't have access to open ports on every router in the network chain...

You port break.

Hmm... I can't seem to find any articles on what that is, so could you explain or provide a link?

(11-21-2014, 01:55 PM)Aleron Ives Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-19-2014, 07:39 PM)Assebasse Wrote: [ -> ]I can forward on my router, but as I live at a dorm there's an external router of some sort, to which I have no access.

If you want to use netplay with people who aren't also in the dorm (i.e. on the same LAN as you), being in a dorm will make it impossible for you to host a netplay session. The other person will have to forward ports to let you connect, unless that other person also lives in a dorm, in which case netplay with that person is impossible. Living in a place where somebody else controls the networking environment leaves you with many insurmountable networking limitations.

Hi, thanks for the reply!

The thing about what you say, is that I can connect with the laptop, just not with the desktop. I haven't tried hosting after we've made it work with my partner hosting, so I can't actually say whether I could do that. While you may be correct about the hosting part, I still don't understand why there would be a difference between the two PCs with dolphin set up the same.

EDIT: Also a thank you to JMC47 for the continued replies. While my issue may not have been resolved through it, I'm glad someone is trying to help me.

EDIT 2: I don't know if you saw, Aleron Ives, but I also mentioned earlier that I had tried using my phone as modem, which is a completely different network - didn't solve it either. That's why I'm thinking it's some sort of hardware issue, even though I don't understand what it could be. Or maybe it's related to settings in dolphin, but all the settings I can find, are completely identical to how I've set it up on my laptop.

If it's just with the desktop... I really don't know. It's actually interesting to know that it's per computer because I had been thinking prior to this that the problem would be per router.

Ah, I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear enough! Yeah, it's per computer, I've been playing just fine on the laptop. I don't think I've tried hosting yet on the laptop, but I can definitely connect without issue. I think I said before as well, that when I tried running it locally (using internal IPs given by the router) the laptop was able to connect to the desktop, but not the other way around.