Halo - Friend Can't Connect To My Game But I Can Connect To His

My friend & I both have the Halo trial installed on our PC's & use it to play multiplayer againt each other. There is an option to connect to a game via direct IP which is what I normally do to connect to a game my friend set up.

The thing is, it's extremely laggy for me but not for my friend as he lives in Canada & I live in the UK. We decided to try letting him connect to a game that I set up instead of me connecting to him. Well apparently he tries connecting to my game via Direct IP and it just times out/fails.

I thought that this may be due to my firewall so I turned it off & he tried again but he still experienced the same problem.

It's weird that I can connect to his game but he can't connect to mine. Is there any way of resolving this problem?

Thanks.

 

Are you behind a router? If you are, the router might be blocking your friend from accessing your game through IP. What you will need to do is look up what Ports Halo uses and forward them in your router's settings. That should fix her up. However, if you are not using a router, thats a different problem. Post back with more details and we'll see what we can do.

 

I'm using a router yes & I've forwarded my ports exactly how portforward.com tells you to for Halo, but he still can't connect.

I even set up a static IP.