Praise and question

[jimbabwe]

as far as the different instance thing I have it happen a bit as I run 2 accounts on two different computers, and this generally only happens if I try to zone them into a zone simultaneously. If the zone is running and has a player fully loaded into it I have never seen this problem. (But then again, I'm also on a mixed wired/wireless network)

[oghog]

That's one of the problems with Minilogin. It verifies each client by IP addresses. So if you and your wife are on the same LAN, then you're going to have connection issues.

Try putting in your LAN IP (192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3, etc.) in the accounts table in MySQL. This way, it separates the accounts by LAN IP rather than WAN IP. If you're using a router that's fairly old, you're going to have issues because it probably doesn't have NAT Forwarding. But first, try the link in my next paragraph, and we'll cross over that line when we get to it.

I have put our lan ip's in the accounts table. Verified those with MySQLCC.. My PC is the server PC as well. 192.168.1.150, and hers is .151...

Its just minor connection things, as we can get on and play from seperate machines in the Lan, but I was thinking it may have something to do with ports or what not. I do have an older Linksys router, not sure model # since im at work right now....thanks for your replies tho.

[vales]

Ah.

If you're running the server on your PC and playing on it as well, then make your IP field in MySQL accounts to 127.0.0.1 and leave her's at 192.168.1.151. That might help a bit.

Set up the Minilogin server as if you were the only one connecting to it (make everything 127.0.0.1). The router should take care of the rest since your wife is playing on a separate PC on your LAN. Just put 127.0.0.1 in your eqhost.txt file (since you're connecting to the PC you have the server on), and make sure your wife's eqhost.txt says 192.168.1.150 since she's connecting to your PC. The router should forward all connections to your PC automatically.

If all else fails, you can use Hamachi. All that software does is create a VPN with unique ip addresses. There was talk about it a while ago on the forums. I've tried it myself once, and it worked fine. But try using it as a last result. I personally found it a thousand times easier to run a Public server and just lock it out to everyone except my friends and I. It's not eating bandwidth, either, since it's only connecting to the server to show my name on the list. All of the bandwidth is just the same as Minilogin. But better in terms of security.

If you need help with that, don't hesitate to ask.

[oghog]

I tried changing over to public login, I can see my server there, but everytime i connect to it, it times out.

Im assuming this is because Im on Wildblue sattelite internet and my ping times are god awful.

I tried connecting to PEQ and other servers with the same effect. It just simply times out before i get to character selection screen.

Any suggestions or am i just screwed playing on other servers?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[John Adams]

Way back in the dawn of cable internet, there was a file in EQ client called "datarate.txt". Not sure if it's still used, but you could set that to 9, from the default of 5. That used to help me years back with extremely crappy connectivity via Speedchoice (microwave) internet.

[oghog]

Dont see any datarate.txt file in the client anymore. I remember using it back in the day as well, but dont see one on the titanium client.