MY NETWORK SERVER PING IS DEAD! Long story

Technos72 · Post by **Technos72** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:33 am

For those of you who don't know what "ping" is, It's the speed of a network server (a server in team fortress 2, gmod, etc). The lower the ping, the more laggy the server is. "dead ping" means people won't connect to your server. It's known as a ??? or 0 or --- I have this dead ping and people won't come to my servers! Here's the story...

I was playing Blockland with some people on MY server and it was working perfectly (I will not tolerate with blockland vs roblox any longer). You were supposed to port forward to create a server or use dedicated server. I can't port forward because the login thing for me is stupid. So I run dedicated. At a new version of Blockland it said port forwarding was no longer nessicary. So I didn't need dedicated to run server.

A few months later my dad installed an excellent working internet security. Later I tried blockland, ran my server, then THAT'S when my ping started to become dead. Since port forwarding is no longer needed for a server, Dedicated isn't working also! I investigated.

On the weekend with free team fortress 2 on steam, I was going to create my own server but ping was dead also! Now I knew that it's not just blockland with the dead ping. When I create a server on ANY ONLINE GAME the ping will be always dead.

I think it's my internet security that's causing the dead ping. I was looking around it to find the problem. But I can't find it. Maybe you know what's going on. HELP ME!

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:19 pm

What is the name of the software?

Try turning off protection for some ports or just turn off the whole firewall.

Technos72 · Post by **Technos72** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:53 pm

Kaspersky internet security. Firewall won't work and turning it off is risky.

Website · Post by **jdl** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:18 pm

As with what tyteen said, if your going to have something port forwarded, your going to have to allow that service through Windows Firewall too. If nothing came up saying "-Name of service here- Block | Unblock" when you tried running the service, then you'll just have to find the port and not only allow it though your router, but allow it through the firewall too. Plus, if you get a new router, your going to have to do it again if you did it before you got a new one. I guess this would apply to your new security.

Technos72 · Post by **Technos72** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:32 pm

I said I DIDN'T port forward. I didn't have to port forward in the new version and the stupid login thing for port forwarding won't let me on.

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:32 pm

Please read Kaspersky manual on how to allow services. I could have shown you but my trial license just ran out.

Technos72 · Post by **Technos72** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 7:37 pm

I can't find anything except a rule creation wizard. But I don't know how to get to it. Maybe this helps?

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:21 am

If you have no idea how to do it then maybe just shut down the whole firewall.

Technos72 · Post by **Technos72** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:51 pm

I did but still won't work

Technos72 · Post by **Technos72** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:22 am

Ok I just got Alien Swarm for steam. I created my own server and it's working? I don't get it. Why won't it work for blockland and team fortress 2 if it works for alien swarm?