Help Logging In, Error Messages :(

[legendsguy]

I haven't played in about 8 months but I decided to return last night. So I downloaded the client and added 100+ ports so I could run through the patches. So I paid for another month of service and logged in..!

Sadly, now I cannot log into any of the shards except for the Test Shard, which I find rather odd. When I try to join Legends it waits a few seconds then gives me a pop-up box stating: 'Couldn't connect to Ultima Online. Please try again in a few moments'. This is immediately followed with another pop-up that reads: 'Connection lost' and then I am taken back to the log-in box.

I think this is truly odd since I can connect to the Test Shard (though I didn't see anyone else there nor could I pick anything up, if that had anything to do with it?). Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Cear Dallben Dragon]

What do you mean you were adding ports.....forwarding?
What kind of net work and security are you running?

 

[Nine Dark Moons]

i didn't understand that either... the patches don't take that long to run through - maybe 20 mins. i don't know about opening ports. sounds like all your patches didn't go through properly.

 

[legendsguy]

well, i tried to download uo and it kept stopping mid-patching. so i checked out uo and it said i needed a myriad of different ports.

http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cf...nBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9cGF0Y2g*&p_li=&p_topview=1

happily, afterward it did all patch. though, that isn't the current problem of course i'm using windows defender, but the way i figure if i can patch everything, i shouldn't have any other problems. of course, i do

 

[Sebrina]

Wow, --- running that many ports? Your system is going too many directions that way. Optimize to only a few ports and you will get better response and speed.

-And the link there only shows 5 ports needed. If you are running more than 10, you will constantly have the "lag monster" on your back because of your own self-created encumberance.

 

[legendsguy]

i freely admit i have little idea what i'm doing most of the time. but doesn't my link say i need ports 8800-8900 open for the patches, so isn't that 100 ports?

 

[Snakeman]

Never have I had opened any ports on anything in my 9 yrs of playing UO. Whether playing at home on a router (non Firewall), sharing it with my kids and all of us playing at once, or at work with a direct connect to the DSL modem. I'm a little baffled here myself, for any router I have ran thru never have I had to open ports & never have had a problem connecting or running smoothly. Are you behind a firewall router?

 

[legendsguy]

well, i constantly would get a message saying i didn't have the latest version and so it wouldn't patch, but then i added all those ports and magically it patched all the way through. so i consider that a success--though i wonder if it is leading to this problem. i am thinking of deleting the ports now that i am patched, to see if that makes a difference.

i am at my university, so i have to use AVG Free 8.0. Alright, thank you

 

[Basara]

It's possible some arse at your university's computer department has the ports blocked for UO to connect at the level of the school's connection to the internet backbone.