Snoopy, you may have to recruit someone locally to help you out then. Trying to mess with router settings remotely without secondary access around the router generally doesn't work. Most home routers require a reboot on any change to the config and this would drop the remote session, if something happened and the router did not come back up you'd be out of luck.
From what I can recall you "should" be able to at least join games if you have reverse port mappings setup on the router to your PC and only yours for the game (meaning only that PC will work).
The other option (which also allows you to host games) is ... putting your PC IP in a DMZ on your router... this is generally the quicker and painless option. Again the DMZ would only allow a single PC to play the game.
The last option is usually foolproof, bypass your router altogether and plug your PC's ethernet port directly into your cable/dsl/whatever you got. If your not using a switch, then this means your cutting the rest of the house off from the internet. This is what I do to host games heh.
From what I can recall you "should" be able to at least join games if you have reverse port mappings setup on the router to your PC and only yours for the game (meaning only that PC will work).
The other option (which also allows you to host games) is ... putting your PC IP in a DMZ on your router... this is generally the quicker and painless option. Again the DMZ would only allow a single PC to play the game.
The last option is usually foolproof, bypass your router altogether and plug your PC's ethernet port directly into your cable/dsl/whatever you got. If your not using a switch, then this means your cutting the rest of the house off from the internet. This is what I do to host games heh.
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