D2 TCP/IP game - won't connect

[amable]

First let me take this moment to say that it's ridiculous that two people sitting right next to one another in the same household have to have 2 copies of Diablo, and 2 copies of Diablo 2, not to mention expensive!!! Okay, that said...

My husband and I have played Diablo using our hub... worked fine. Well, we purchased 2 copies of Diablo 2 (still grumbling - outrageous to spend an extra $30 to play the game with your wife!) Well, we hook up last night (I use the same port for internet connection, just unhook it and sometimes reboot in order to connect for gaming through the hub.) We selected Other multiplayer games, TCP/IP, and entered in the IP address for the other computer. When entered incorrectly, it immediately did not connect, when the number was correct, it said it was trying to connect for a few minutes and then said, Unable to connect to server.

We changed nothing on the computers since we played Diablo I, so I can't understand why it won't work with this new program.

Can anyone help?

Amy

 

[The Helper]

If you email [email protected] they have a special on other people in the house disks just email and ask them.

Diablo 2 uses a different type of networking than Diablo 1 I believe. Diablo uses IPX/SPX and Diablo 2 uses TCP/IP.

Check out this page for troubleshooting the Diablo 2 networking

http://www.idleminds.org/~dirk/lan/tcplanfix.html

Make sure you have the same version of Diablo 2 on both computers or it will not work, if you patch one you will have to patch them both.

Hope this helps -