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The Netgear website states "There are well-known incompatibilities
between NAT 
and certain onlines games and videoconferencing applications" in the FAQ
area.  
This limits you to one machine behind the router (if any at all work)
that can
play the game at a time (after making configuration changes).  I believe
this is 
a result of using NAT and the game site requiring specific ports on each
system.

Sorry, but I believe that ANY router that uses NAT will have the same
problem.

Bob


MaD HaTTeR wrote:
> 
> I bought the Linksys Broadband router because it had a built in switch and
> seemed like the best value.  I haven't had any connection problems with it
> yet so technically I chose the right one right?.... WRONG.  One of the
> biggest reasons I bought this router was so that I could hook up multiple
> pc's on my lan to a game of Quake 3 all on the same internet server.  But it
> won't let me!  Only one computer can get through and the others can't even
> PING the server or have it come up on the server list.
> 
> I can connect multiple pc's each on a different quake 3 server just fine.  I
> can even connect 2 instances of Quake 3 games (windowed) on 1 pc into 1
> internet server (weird huh?).  So why can't multiple pc's get on 1 server???
> I have tried for weeks to get this working and finally gave up and so the
> only way for my lan to play vs the internet is to setup a server of my own
> on the lan.
> 
> I'm now thinking about trying the Netgear RT311 router.  Does anyone have
> any experience with this with Quake 3???  Can you please tell me if this
> router (or any others) will allow my lan to connect to 1 internet server??
> 
> BTW, Before I got the router, I was running SyGate on my main pc to share
> the cable modem.  This worked great w/ quake 3 even!  So there has to be a
> way.
> I wrote Linksys' useless tech support and the reply i got was: "It will not
> work with this game"
> 
> That's it!  Please help.
> 
> Thanks