Hello fellow Pinoys!

I’m a SmartBro subscriber in Cagayan de Oro city, and I’m getting decent speeds (about 300kbps down, 200kbps up as measured by http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ ). I got this connection to basically play online games, and not the average Ragnarok or Gunbound either but something along the lines of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 and Falcon 4 Allied Force.

So far, I am able to fly MSFS2004, and I am able to connect and play on Neverwinter Nights servers. However, I can only see Falcon 4 servers but cannot connect to them — I keep getting timed out.

Here’s a quote from somebody in-the-know about these sims:

And state that…

MS Flightsimulator ports work:
Flight Simulator 2000 2300-2400,47624 2300-2400
Flight Simulator 2002 2300-2400,47624 2300-2400
Flight Simulator 2004 6073,23456

but not Falcon4 which require:
ports 2934 and 2935 for protocols TCP and UDP.

See if someone can help you with either the ISP or knows the secret to forwarding ports over this wireless ISP and SmartBro technology (which might have its own port forwarding or DMZ built-in).

I called the tech support a few months back, and they say that they are not blocking any ports, but testing port connection via eDonkey and other peer-to-peer programs shows that they cannot access such ports.

Does anyone know how to get around this?

As a temporary workaround, I am able to fly with Falcon 4 users by downloading and installing Hamachi (http://www.hamachi.cc/) to fly in a virtual private network (VPN). The downside is that everybody I play with MUST have Hamachi installed to join, and even the server we are using must have Hamachi.

This is really disappointing since judging by my connection speeds, I should be able to fly online and enjoy these sims (and this broadband connection), but for some reason, I cannot do so. I suspect the culprit to be one of the following:
1. SmartBro really IS blocking the required ports
2. It’s that NAT system SmartBro uses
3. It’s the IP that SmartBro gives me (note that static IP doesn’t solve my issues)

I hope somebody can help! Thank you in advance!

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