[General] LAN Problem

[Sakata Gintoki]

does wc3 still support local area network in new patches? i heard people say blizzard abandon the lan ? and yesterday i and my friend can't see my hosted room in lan

 

[Dr Super Good]

does wc3 still support local area network in new patches?

Yes but they moved away from Windows based peer discovery to a more platform independent solution from Apple.

LAN games should appear correctly if everyone has Apple Bonjour installed and are discoverable on the local network.

 

[Sakata Gintoki]

LAN games should appear correctly if everyone has Apple Bonjour installed and are discoverable on the local network.

i and my friend already has apple bonjour installed but why my friend can't see my hosted lan games? are because the version of the game? my friend has 1.30.2.11057 and i use 1.30.2.11113

 

[Chaosy]

What. That sounds completely awful.

Heeeeeell no, downloading an Apple product to play on LAN, no thanks.
Then I might as well use Garena or Gameranger which is useful for online play anyway so it is not as useless of a download.
Not like the reduced latency if a big deal in wc3 anyway.

 

[Sakata Gintoki]

What. That sounds completely awful.

Heeeeeell no, downloading an Apple product to play on LAN, no thanks.
Then I might as well use Garena or Gameranger which is useful for online play anyway so it is not as useless of a download.
Not like the reduced latency if a big deal in wc3 anyway.

but,are not the new patches require bonjor to play lan?

 

[Sakata Gintoki]

has anyone ever played lan on a new patch? if yes please guide me how to do it

 

[Chaosy]

The methods I suggested are for online play technically.
But there is no real difference anyway and it is way more useful since you might use it for playing online with strangers, it works just as well for playing with friends.

 

[Sakata Gintoki]

The methods I suggested are for online play technically.
But there is no real difference anyway and it is way more useful since you might use it for playing online with strangers, it works just as well for playing with friends.

so how to setting to play online in gameranger with newpatch ?

 

[Dr Super Good]

i and my friend already has apple bonjour installed but why my friend can't see my hosted lan games? are because the version of the game? my friend has 1.30.2.11057 and i use 1.30.2.11113

Yeh you both need the latest version to play, or at least to have the same version.

The current version is 1.30.4.11274. It appears both of you are using quite old versions. I strongly recommend updating.

 

[Sakata Gintoki]

Yeh you both need the latest version to play, or at least to have the same version.

The current version is 1.30.4.11274. It appears both of you are using quite old versions. I strongly recommend updating.

ok i will try update my wc3

 

[Dr Super Good]

ok i will try update my wc3

You both need to update, and both have to use the same version.

 

[Sakata Gintoki]

You both need to update, and both have to use the same version.

if we have bonjour does we need to setting port forwarding again on my router?

 

[Dr Super Good]

if we have bonjour does we need to setting port forwarding again on my router?

Port forwarding is only needed when trying to pass through a NAT or firewall. None of those should apply to traffic within a private local area network.