

And before you spend a buck (as it may come to this) you may want to try these instructions.įirst off the problem is ALWAYS the NAT. What I’m about to write here shall be a long-ish text based on my own experience and how I overcame this problem. These applications open large amounts of sockets purely for passive listening and eat up a lot of your computers available bandwidth.

Other causes of poor connections might be programs that interfere with steam or all kind of 'updater' programs on your computer. Or even uninstall the Anti-Virus if it keeps interfering and you run out-of-options. You change this here: Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Windows Firewall\Allowed applicationsĭo you have Anti-Virus or custom firewall installed? You might need to whitelist the game's executables (and port 14800) here as well. Also open TCP port 14800 in your Firewall. Third, also make sure that the Age of Wonders III executables are allowed in your firewall (just to be sure delete the existing entries and add them again-just to be sure). If you are on an university network or Wireless Internet Dongle this might never work.

NOTE: If you have multiple modems/routers in your network be sure to set the other router to 'bridge' mode.

If this doesn't work contact your ISP to ask how to setup an open connection on your Router and ask if they don't block ports by default. To setup an open connection you can follow the following steps: Second, we recommend setting up manual port forwarding on your router instead of UPnP (on some routers UPnP is poorly supported and simply doesn't work properly). However if you join a Multiplayer session after this player has joined and you have poor connection as well. One player with a poor connection is allowed. This problem might be caused by several things we all need to check in order to get it to work.įirst of all playing Age of Wonders III multiplayer requires that all people that join one session have an open connection. Sorry to hear you're having trouble setting up an open connection on your computer.
