A router friendly TeamSpeak!

[MrStolpe]

I cant host because of my router; TeamSpeak is not router friendly!

I have it so all calls to my router to a certan port goes to the PC with the server on as soon as people conn. to me they disconnect.

Please make the next ver. of TeamSpeak work with routers.

(I tryed disconnecting the router and putting the cable modem right into the PC and they can connect and chat but when i hook up the router it wont let users connect.)(No I can't keep it off the router because we have 2 other computers.)

[ScratchMonkey]

How, exactly, did you configure the router? Did you forward both the TCP and UDP ports? What kind of router?

Don't forget that your ISP and all the Internet backbones between a server and a client have routers, so TS must be router-friendly.

It might have trouble with port-forwarding, but that's probably tweakable in your home router.

[MrStolpe]

I have a SMC router and there is only 1 forward area for ports

[ScratchMonkey]

Describe how you set it. (I'm not familiar with SMC. I use a Linux box for my gateway/router/firewall/NAT.) It may be that SMC's router is too limited for this, but give us some details so we can tell for sure.

[MrStolpe]

well i forwarded the port # but i get an UDP error

[MrStolpe]

i have something called "Virtual Server" that lets me set ports that come into the router forward to this PC.

Then i have this "Special Applications" here is what the help for it says.

"Some applications require multiple connections, such as Internet games, video conferencing, Internet telephony, etc. Because of the firewall function, these applications cannot work with a pure NAT router. The Special Applications feature allows some of these applications to work with your Barricade. "

I have a SMC (http://www.smc.com/) Barricade 4 port 10/100 mbps router (port means 4 Computers able to be connected to it for those who may not know)

[ScratchMonkey]

You say you forwarded "the" port number. Only one? TS uses two, a UDP port and a TCP port. You have to forward both of them.

The "multiple connections" that the manual is talking about don't apply. That has to do with a server that listens dynamically on more than one port, so the router can't predict what ports to forward without understanding and snooping the protocol. The big protocols that do this from the client side are FTP, Quake, and IRC. FTP can be set not to do this.

[MrStolpe]

what are the port #s the one for the server is 8765

[R. Ludwig]

Take a look at the FAQ .

maybe that answers your question....

[TR-13]

Pssst

TCP:8765
UDP:8766

Rule: UDP=TCP+1

The truth has to do nothing with the number of the people who are convinced as her.

[Raptors]

We run a dedicated TS server for a very long period now on a win2000 pro system. Its behind a Draytek Vigor 2200E router and its working like a dream. The problem is that some routers (like the Linksys) have badly implemented forwarding firmware. I have brought back my linksys because of that.

[ScratchMonkey]

Nice to know! Thanks!

Can anyone else report what routers work well with TS, both with the client and the server? We know the Linksys has issues. What should people choose instead?

(My boss is getting DSL for his house, and I'm shopping for his router. )

[Judas]

I am using a Zyxel Prestige 642i (common ADSL router) which works very nicely with teamspeak. I think it is an inexpensive and quite ok router. It does support basic NAT but only allows to foreward about 10 ports. So if someone is looking for a real NAT solution he might be better off with another router. Nevertheless I never had problems setting up either Teamspek Servers nor clients.

[xoron]

perhaps you should create a new section for hosting a ts-server behind a router and/or firewall. i've read many threads (not only this one) of people having problems to set up a server behind a router..

Originally posted by MrStolpe
I cant host because of my router; TeamSpeak is not router friendly!

nonsense!

Please make the next ver. of TeamSpeak work with routers.

not teamspeak must be configured to work with routers, the router must be configured to forward the ports teamspeak needs..


i use www.fli4l.de and (since i know which ports to forward) i have no problems with it...


greetz, xoron

[WKronthaler]

Originally posted by MrStolpe
[B]I cant host because of my router; TeamSpeak is not router friendly!

I have actually a running Teamspeak Server at WinMe. A USR 8000 NAT router (with the SMC Barricade 7004 Firmware) routs the 2 needed ports to the server machine. Works perfect. Everyone can connect to my server. TEamspeak is cool!

The only thing i wich is that the different rooms could be protected with different passwords. It can not at the moment, right?