WSAETIMEDOUT

kylos · Post by **kylos** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:19 pm

It seems I cant connect to the server, I have windows XP Pro and when I download the new client , unzip it and run the illarion MUDCLIENT I try to make a new character and I get the WSAETIMEDOUT message.

After this message I get another one that says "Maybe the server is not online or you have no internet connection" and then another one that says "Can't Connect!".

Now, I do have internet access no firewall and the servers seem to be online from the website status thing. I did my research before posting found related topics but none helped at all. I found one that could've been helpful but I dont speak German.

http://forum.illarion.org/viewtopic.php ... aetimedout

Other topics talked about a guy being banned and some other guy to download a patch to fix this. I found no patch so Im guessing it was an old ver. Please help me, I would lov to try to play Illarion since it seems to be a fun experience.

Neonfire · Post by **Neonfire** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:27 pm

Are you using a router?

Have you activated the Windows XP built-in firewall?

kylos · Post by **kylos** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:31 pm

well, I do use a router, i wouldn't know of the windows xp firewall it doesnt seems so. ive played tons of ORPGs before no connection probs ever, I dunno though I will check for the win xp firewall.

Checked no firewall. You really think the router has anythin to do?

Zordakh · Post by **Zordakh** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:22 pm

some routers have inbuilt firewalls.. it would be helpful to know what kind of router you are using.. if it has one you can disable in the settings..

hope that helps

kylos · Post by **kylos** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:38 pm

Actually, my bad is not a router but a switch so theres no firewal involved there either. Any of you guys have any idea if this might be a windows xp pro compability problem? maybe need something to fix? Any ideas? I definitely know its not a connection problem since I play mostly online games and have no probs what so ever.

Shi'voc · Post by **Shi'voc** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:46 pm

the client does work using windows xp pro...
you might want to try if you can establish a telnet connection to server.illarion.org port 3008... if this doesn't work, it's definately not related to the client but to something blocking your connection to the server...

that should look something along those lines:

shivoc@optronix:~$ telnet server.illarion.org 3008
Trying 217.160.140.46...
Connected to p15106082.pureserver.info.
Escape character is '^]'.
ÌConnection closed by foreign host.

i.e. the server closing the connection instead of not being able to reach the host or not being able to establish a connection etc.

Neonfire · Post by **Neonfire** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:11 am

Little tutorial to that

- click start ... Run ...
- type in "cmd" and press OK
- inside the appearing black DOS box, just type the following

telnet server.illarion.org 3008

Two possible messages will appear. If it tells you not getting a connection, it is a problem with your Windows, with your internet service provider or something else client-side. But if you get a connection, and the server closes the connection, it may be that your connection is too slow, or the ping time might be too high.

kylos · Post by **kylos** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:50 am

Well I did as you guys told me. BTW thanks for the tutorial, was a bit confused at the beginnig..

anyway all I get is this..

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Connection to host lost.

I dunno what it means? Is it me then?

I did some research on the web it seems timed out events are caused by low ping time, but still I didnt take it into account since I havent messed with that (yet

) So I dont see a reason for such action.

Kasume · Post by **Kasume** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:21 am

A three way intersection?

kylos · Post by **kylos** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:28 am

I dont know man, I got that same thing, just that instead of the square there was a happy face like this one

.

it seems the forum doesnt have that character.

kylos · Post by **kylos** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:18 am

Well thanks to everyone for the support, I really appreciate the help. I just fixed my old pc and it has windows 2000, I downloaded the client ad worked liked a charm. So I dont know how to fix the windows xp thing but im guessing it has something to do on my side.

Thanks again ppl.