my continued network struggles

[Syluxguy28O3]

ok so ur on a school lan, maybe theres something at the school blocking the routing...?

no,no. we play at home. the time mindz was talking about we were at school.

[Mr.Burns]

@ mr.burns
no error messages of any kind. ill try to turn off my firewall

@rook
tried that. failed

In the hope that helping you may persuade your friends to try and join us on the servers...:
Maybe strip it down to basics. I'm not at home at the moment so I can't double check this for you, but assuming you have one pc which is acting as a server and a client, perhaps start your server with something like:

glpro.exe -dedicated 8

then if that comes up and appears to be running properly (maybe try to changelevel e1m1 just to make sure it's accepting commands and responding ) start your normal client and type the following in console

connect <YourInternalIPNo>

and press return.

Do you connect? do you get any "Connection Accepted" messages?
If you are still not connecting try temporarily disabling your firewall (assuming you have one on the same PC) and repeat the process above before turning your firewall back on. If you connect it suggests that you may need to modify your firewall to allow quake to use whatever ports it needs which in the absence of some sort or -portrange option can be a significant number .

Hope this helps

Monty

[Syluxguy28O3]

thanks for the suugestion mr.burns. ill try it later tonight!

[R00k]

one note, use wqpro.exe for a dedicated server. GLpro wont run as a dedicated server, unless Baker fixed that.

[Syluxguy28O3]

one note, use wqpro.exe for a dedicated server. GLpro wont run as a dedicated server, unless Baker fixed that.

while i am not 100% sure, i think i ran a server using glpro once or twice. however, i will try your suggestion too rook!