Hey
I hosted a server "laser prod!" today and yesterday. I modified the settings so it was just grappling hook and a more powerful, forceful laser.

Anyway, "Savagex" informed me that it was showing up on the server list 50 times or so. This would also, apparantly, explain why some players were experiencing extreme amounts of lag.

I don't know how to fix this, but I would like to keep hosting if I can.

For the game "Warcraft 3" I had to follow directions to forward my port to itself. The directions for that are found here: http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Apple/AirPortExtreame/Warcraft_III.htm.

I'm using a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with an apple Airport (but directly connected to it).

Help, please?

Well you would have to do something similar for your Nexuiz server.. forward a port to the computer and port you run the Nexuiz server on.
The port Nexuiz uses is controlled by the variable port and is set to 26000 by default. Maybe your router does something strange if you have not done that?

I dont know if port forwarding is your problem, but if it is, this guide would probably be what you need.

I have the ap extreme, and didnt have any problems forwarding it (for bittorrent).

Hm, are you shure you didn't forward all those public ports to a single client port? It's just a wild guess, but it's the only possible explanation i can imagine atm...

Just to be on the safe side, i would suggest you save your current forwarding rules, delete everything and forward only port 26000 (UDP).

Well what i could imaging is that the the server tries to contact the master server and because its not forwarded it gets NATed.. iirc the server sends a heartbeat every 3 minutes. Maybe it gets a new NAT port each time.

If your router really sucks that much, try this:

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sv_heartbeatperiod 30
sv_masterextra2 ""
sv_masterextra3 ""
sv_masterextra4 ""


Then it will only report to only one master server and do that every 30 seconds, that could make your router believe it's all the same connection to the master so it won't use a different port each time.

If that won't help, nothing will - apart from getting a router that can NAT without changing the source port of outgoing UDP packets all the time.

ok, thanks for the replies. I'm going to go try what Torus suggested, using the Quake 2 guide at that site (that makes a lot of sense).

I'll also try what divVerent suggested if that doesn't work.

::crosses fingers::

Torus's idea seemed to work. but wouldnt it be port 26000 not 27910?

EDIT:
I set the port to 26000, but the server would show up multiple times on the serverlist. When it is set to 27910, it won't show up at all. I deleted the other forwarded ports (6113-6118)

Thryl wrote:but wouldnt it be port 26000 not 27910?)

port 27910 is the port that it uses to contact the master server, while 26000 is what it uses to connect to clients.

Now after that last post i'm really not sure what the hell you did

For the nexuiz server you just need ONE port forward like its descripted in the quake2 guide on that other site. But as i told you Nexuiz uses the port 26000 as default (or if you have changed the variable "port" its the one you set there).
I'm not sure what other port forwards you have active.. Maybe they cause the problems, i have no idea.

And No [TSA] Psychiccyberfreak is wrong.. Quake2 used the port 27910 by default that why its mentioned in the quake2 guide
While yes your Nexuiz server will try to contact the master servers (which normally runs on port 27950) to get into the list of available public servers.

esteel wrote:While yes your Nexuiz server will try to contact the master servers (which normally runs on port 27950) to get into the list of available public servers.

I was assuming that the ports provided were the right ones, and I knew one was right so I assumed the other was too. whoops.

Thryl wrote:Torus's idea seemed to work. but wouldnt it be port 26000 not 27910?

EDIT:
I set the port to 26000, but the server would show up multiple times on the serverlist. When it is set to 27910, it won't show up at all. I deleted the other forwarded ports (6113-6118)

OK, tried the other workaround then? BTW, whatever you do, you need the port 26000 forwarding... I assumed you already have that.

yes, i tried each method. it would either not show on the server list, or it would have the same problem as before (showing up multiple times, a lot of lag, etc)

divVerent, i would enter those lines of code into the console pane, right? what exactly would i put in?

You would type exactly these four lines.

I take it you tried this? If so then it did not help but made things worse. At least there was a huge spike in server earlier this day, guess that was you trying..
I just wonder why that router is such a crap.
Well if you just want to play with friends you can tell the server NOT to register at the master servers (sv_public 0) and tell your friends to connect manually by opening the console and using (connect IP:PORT) of your router/server..
Oh and maybe you can show us how your screen looks when having this thing open:

Maybe we misunderstand you or you did something wrong with the forwarding.. just to make sure.