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My hubby and I got all excited after reading yet another Diablo3 article. So we decided to dust off our old Diablo2 discs and play together. While single player is working fine, we can not get multiplayer to work (we got the same version). It doesn't matter who hosts, when we try it says cannot connect to server.

Now, we play other games, like Dawn of War, over the LAN without any hitches. But I guess since Diablo2 is really really really old, it might need some extra help in order to work. Or we are just doing it exactly the wrong way, not a puter wiz. I can't actually recall for sure if we ever played mutliplayer in the past. Think we did, but not 100%. Searching blizzards technical support forum did not help at all. All I get there is pages of people in distress over getting banned or having trouble connecting to battlenet. Didn't see anything helpful about trouble connecting directly to another computer over a LAN.

So I'm hoping one of you fine people got any helpful sugggestions. With really easy step by step instructions. My computer runs WinXP, his WinXp64.

Ohhhh, I do remember having horrible, horrible problems getting D2 to work over LAN. It worked, in the end, IIRC...But I sort of lost all the hoops we had to jump through.
Anyway, first thing to do is turn off everything that in any way might stop anyone from connecting to either computer. That means all firewalls, virus checkers, yadayadas. Get off the internet before you do so :-P
Make sure the pcs can see each other correctly, and completely, and make sure it sees the other one with the right IP number (it wasn't D2, but I remember a game where while my pcs both had working IP numbers, they *saw* each other with completely different numbers...And no, they didn't both just have 127.0.0.1 or something . I never understood how thatgame came up with those numbers ,but eh, they worked).
Anyway, other than that most basic bit of nonsense, I can't really help. I'm decent with PCs, but I absolutely suck at networks.

All I've ever had to do is disable all firewalls in windows and LAN play has worked just fine.

Windows firewall is a bitch of thing to get programs through, so I just disable it when playing over the LAN.

iirc, there's some kind of port issue that most blizzard games have over LAN. I remember having a time opening ports to let WCIII through.

Can I take this time to rant about how taking LAN out of d3 and sc2 is freakin lame?

Do you have different CD-Keys? Using the same keys might just be the problem.

if all fails, maybe you should grab Titanquest on steam. It's actually a great game and it will fix your needs till diablo III is released

Math242 said:

if all fails, maybe you should grab Titanquest on steam. It's actually a great game and it will fix your needs till diablo III is released

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I have made this exact same reccomendation before, and agree with it. Hell of a fun game, and will easily cover your diablo needs until d3.

Woot! Turning windows firewall off fixed it. Now, is there a way to get it to work with it on, so we don't have to fiddle with it every time? Simply adding Diablo2 to exceptions did not do it.

Ok, I read about the Diablo 2 multiplayer, where's the broken dreams portion? rly:

Siska said:

Woot! Turning windows firewall off fixed it. Now, is there a way to get it to work with it on, so we don't have to fiddle with it every time? Simply adding Diablo2 to exceptions did not do it.

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But it's prob more of a bother then just turning it off and getting another firewall...

Siska said:

Woot! Turning windows firewall off fixed it. Now, is there a way to get it to work with it on, so we don't have to fiddle with it every time? Simply adding Diablo2 to exceptions did not do it.

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Not for me, I've just gotten into the habit whenever playing any game over LAN to turn off the firewall first.

Win firewall annoys me so i always have it off...

Bowielee said:

Siska said:

Woot! Turning windows firewall off fixed it. Now, is there a way to get it to work with it on, so we don't have to fiddle with it every time? Simply adding Diablo2 to exceptions did not do it.

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Not for me, I've just gotten into the habit whenever playing any game over LAN to turn off the firewall first.

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I do the same. Adding any game to the exceptions list never seems to work anyway.