FSX Multiplayer -1ping

[b1m2d3]

Hey all,

I apologize in advance if I've posted in the wrong forum. Your multiplayer forum appeared to be full of events.

I've been experimenting lately with flying online more often and I've tried hosting a few sessions, but I get the dreaded -1 ping and one red box anytime I host a session. Not being a computer guru, but neither completely illiterate, lol, I've forwarded every port on my router I could find having to do with what FSX needs in order for others to connect.

I've also created inbound connection rules in my firewall, hence making sure to allow those ports through to my OS. I've even turned off my firewall temporarily and everytime I test with my other FSX machine, I'm seeing my host session with a -1 ping, not to mention others outside my router have reported the same results.

Any other multiplayer game I play, I have absolutely no issues with (mostly COD) - and the funny thing is, I've not had to lift a finger to forward ports on anything to get those games to work correctly online. FSX is an entirely different animal all on its own. Really makes one wonder what the H**L MS is doing in the gaming business, granted I do enjoy FSX and have for a while.

You'll have to excuse me, I'm a tad frustrated as I've never had to put so much work into getting any application to function correctly as I have with FSX.

Has anyone figured out a way to get rid of this dreaded -1ping issue when hosting a session? Any help is tremendously appreciated!!

I have the following:

DSL internet connection: 7mbps downstream (solid),

Router WRT54G
Computer: i7 920 2.7GHZ
6GB tri-channel mem
500GB Sata HD
Nvidia GTX 295

Cheers,

Brandon

**UPDATE** Not sure what I did different as I just went through my routers port forward settings, but using two machines with FSX set up, I was able to watch the hosted session for a bit and after a few seconds it went from -1ping to green with a ping of 31. I tested it twice with the same results and it appeared to be stable for about 10 minutes before I disco'd the session. I guess this is a good thing, but is it normal? The only thing I could think of would be latency of the host session being set up.

[Dontcopy]

Router model?

[Timmo]

As you've discovered, the FSX connection status icon is a bit bogus- as long as others can connect, your connection speed is generally in line with other games....

[b1m2d3]

QUOTE (Timmo @ Jun 15 2011,3:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

As you've discovered, the FSX connection status icon is a bit bogus- as long as others can connect, your connection speed is generally in line with other games....

Right on! Thanks Timmo.

Yea I've felt like I've done everything under the sun to get services/ports set up correctly. I've been reading on other sites/forums as well the -1 ping can be misleading.