Cannot connect....

Newbie Joined: Mar 26, 2007 Posts: 4

When trying to join a game hosted by a mate I get an error message during the startup if IL2 Sturmovik saying "Cannot connect to server - timeout"

Any ideas?

I have added both IL2 and Hyper lobby as exceptions in my windows firewall, but I'm also running through a linksys router.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Newbie Joined: Mar 26, 2007 Posts: 4

Anyone got any ideas?
What about port numbers??

Newbie Joined: Mar 26, 2007 Posts: 4

I can't be the only one to have experienced this???

Dude Joined: Mar 12, 2007 Posts: 11

Im experiencing it too. It means that you were banned for some reason. Its probably only a 24 hour ban.

Dude Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Posts: 24

Newbie Joined: Apr 02, 2007 Posts: 1

Hi Guys,
Im suffering exactly the same problem with exactly the same symtoms,
although i can join late at night 11.30 GMT and after,
so i think its something to do with the "Ping" from Hyperlobby.
The new version (3.9.11) seems to be very sensitive to ISP loading,
my ISP denys there is anything wrong at their end (though they would) i definately feel it is some thing to do with the new version of Hyperlobby, but what to do about it i dont know!

What country are you from, and who is your ISP?

Newbie Joined: Mar 26, 2007 Posts: 4

Hi Guys,

I'm in Australia, and I'm trying to join a game with a mate in the UK. Have tried a few simple things, such as him hosting, me hosting, join a game hosted by a stranger etc etc.
I can't see any reason why I'd be banned? I've never used it before? I can log into hyperlobby itself with no problems, but when I try to join a game, it's no-go. Sad

Grant

Dude Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Posts: 24

I personally cannot even see this website from home - have to enter it from the office. I cannot start up HyperLobby either - it gets stuck while loading.

I am in USA and my ISP is Verizon.

I was on the telephone with them twice already - we reset all the settings to lowest security, disabled all the firewalls and antivirus protection, disconnected the router - still no-go on all counts.

Can somebody help - can we revert to an earlier version of HL that worked for everybody?

HELP!

Dude Joined: Mar 12, 2007 Posts: 11

You can be banned for stupid things on HyperLobby. I was banned for jokingly questioning whether Quebec was a type of food or a place in Canada. Judging by your comments I doubt you were banned....

Just keep harrassing the people-who-know-things for answers. I know its frustrating when you can't progress your fledging pilot career

Post Newbie Joined: Oct 26, 2006 Posts: 5

im having the same issue after a break from playing (havnt played since the latest version of hl was released (and yes it worked with that Razz

)) HL works fine, its when i try to join a server, any server even one ive enjoyed playing on before. it tris to connect but after ~10secs i get this pop up ( Connection attempt to remote host failed, reason: timeout )

another of my friends is having the same issue, altho hes never used HL before.

Dude Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Posts: 24

I cannot connect to HL either. Up until a couple of weeks ago I kept receiving error message Error Socket: 10060 you must set up firewall to allow HL to connect to internet. Now I receive error message 10061: Connection forcefully closed.

I have contacted my ISP and they swear that they were not blocking incoming traffic. I spoke with Level 3 supervisor so far (next levwel up is owner of ISP company Smile

)

All my problems started around March 26 - I don't know what happened, but suddenly both my computers lost ability to connect to HL and the Hyperfighter website.

I can still connect to Hyperfighter website if I use a proxi server though which hides my IP address.

Strange stuff...

~S!~
Lang

Post Newbie Joined: Oct 26, 2006 Posts: 5

well my error turned out to be because ive got hamachi on my pc, and to get it working again you need ot dissable the hamachi network

Dude Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Posts: 24

What is hamachi and how do you turn it off? Thanks for the response

Post Newbie Joined: Oct 26, 2006 Posts: 5

hamachi is a tool that simulates a lan, but over the internet, dont think its what you have as you prob dont have hamachi. but if you do, go into your network connections, right click on hamachi and say dissable.

Newbie Joined: Jun 16, 2007 Posts: 2

Hyperlobby needs port 20999 and the IL2 game needs port 21000 open.
You should be able to do this in your router settings. If you are still having problems, go to this link:

http://www.portforward.com/

This is my suggestion!

Good luck.

AKA_Goshawk