A Firewall Problem?

Hello,

I have Madden 2005 for my PC. I am on a dell dimension 8200 with windows xp. I have the Service Pack 2 installed as well. I recently got Verizon dsl.

After I installed the new service pack, Madden 2005 wouldn't let me host a game. I then minimized the game and saw a popup asking me if I wanted to continue blocking Madden. I clicked no and then everything worked fine and I could host. Later though, after configuring our dsl service to send out our username and password through the router instead of through the computer itself, I could not host. There are no pop ups saying that the Service Pack Firewall is blocking madden, and in the exceptions list, the Main app for madden appears. I even turned the new firewall completely off and I still could not host a game. However I can join someone elses game with no problem. I looked at my router by typing in its IP address in the address bar, and it is allowing all traffic, so I have no idea what to do about this. I don't think you really have to know about the game itself to help. I don't know if its a firewall problem because I couldn't host with the firewall off. Maybe something internal?

If anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate it,

Thank you

 

if you get into the router configuration and look at the "DMZ" screen you can put the computer that you are playing madden on in the "DMZ". this should let that computer bypass the router firewall. Let me know if it works for you.

 

Thanks for the response. My router is a Westell 327 and I see nothing in the router that says DMZ. Could there be something else that means DMZ?

thank you