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www.gameservers.com

That's where I rent my stuff and its all pretty nice

Thanks Ill look into them, have you ever used their support/what was it like? Also what is the downtime like at all/how useful are they if there are problems?

Thanks,

Evil Genuix

www.gameservers.com

That's where I rent my stuff and its all pretty nice

Gamerservers sucks... I rented at them for about 3 months, and never installed any plugins. They won't help you with anything, but the uptime is good. As good as counter-strike.com

your computer is too slow to run SRCDS for 1 player and 1 bot to test race?  :shock:

No I can do but have a router that blocks all outgoing communication for CSS so could only test with me and a bot, which isnt great for testing races, (you cant test messages or effects which are victim, LAN servers dont have all things properly), etc.

You haven't tried forwarding the ports? I have a linksys router and can run SRCDS perfectly fine and my friends can connect. Another thing to note is that besides the Port Forwarding, you need to setup another little configuration within your Local Area Connection. Normally you have (under the internet protocol option) a radio button that is selected that says "Obtain IP Address automatically", but to run SRCDS properly you have to tell it the IP to use. In my case it would be 192.168.1.100 since I am the first computer on my router. You also must provide the default gateway (usually 255.255.255.0) and the primary and alternate DNS servers (could be anything). There was a guide I used in setting mine up but for some reason I can't seem to find which bookmark it was under so if you have questions about that part, just PM me or add me on Steam under the name bukkit and I can walk you through it step by step. It's really good to have an SRCDS server for when you just wanna play with a couple friends online, ya know?

And I've only heard great responses about Counter-strike.com. Couple friends who host servers use them and they love the service and prices they get.

Also, since you're into doing server administration, I just recently made a post in this same forum about custom skin installation and why my clients' computers aren't saving the files so if you could take a look at that for me I would greatly appreciate it. /End shameless Plug

Bah for parents and their stupid rules. There are no consequences to opening up ports 27005 and 27015 as CS:S is the only program that connects through those ports. No hackers have put a trojan on those ports yet. He just doesn't know the reality of things XD

Yup, that's all Cstrike ever uses but you can change the server to whatever port you want. I personally leave that alone. But yeah, servers are located at port 27015 and clients connect with port 27005 so I just open up both for when I want to play on someone elses server and reduce my lag