Get to know your IP address for the outside world : send this via WhatsApp so your opponent can fill it in for Net Memory.NET (remote IP-address) or Net Four In A Row program.
Also you may want to configure your MODEM for port-forwarding on port 1200.
Your own Local IP address: you will find it by typing 'ipconfig' in CMD or the command-prompt for connecting in a LAN.
Playing in a LAN (Local Area Network) or direct via an UTP-cable works somewhat different from playing on the WAN internet:
The IP address to connect to ? You fill this in: you can get it by typing 'ipconfig' in CMD, the command-prompt. You can type CMD in
the search field on Windows 10 on your taskbar.
In CMD look carefully for 'Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi' if your connected via Wi-Fi.
The IP address from your friend on the WAN: you will have to get it via WhatsApp e.g. from him/her.
He/she can get it from https://whatismyipaddress.com/
: you have to send it to your opponent via WhatsApp of phone.
There may be some MODEM settings necessary, see e.g. for KPN users the document : 'opmerkingen voor KPN gebruikers', in dutch.
This method also requires a MODEM setting (port forwarding on port 1200-1201, on the range 1200 to 1201 or even higher, e.g. 1200-1202 is sufficient for the certainty of the port numbers, in connection with port forwarding on your IPv4 address, at home usually an address from the so-called private range). For the vast majority of the population for home use again!, see e.g. for KPN users the document: 'remarks for KPN users' and as described in the manual and test cases below.
Net Connect 4
User Guide & test cases
with two (different) Modems for these internet Games. It's getting the connection right
in the Net Memory Game Series and Net Connect 4 games.
For the English language Area, use the Windows 10/11 language setting: English, GB.
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The first requirement is that two computers, with two instances of the Software, have an internet connection. When you are Player #1 and Player #2, for example, on both your computers, WIFI should be On.
There are multiple configurations possible like in a multiplayer (2 players) game !
When making the Connection together, with 2 programs of the samen given Software title be aware of the fact you have to make that Connection very quickly because after Clicking Connect there is a time out interval of ca. 3 seconds waiting for the other to respond.
Then try communicating for this verbally via phone or Whatsapp when doing this for making the Connection timed and right.
Case #1
[Connect]-ing two computers in a (Wireless) home network situation using KPN Modem Sagemcom box B12
First you may want to know, when a connection is established between two instances of such a Net Connect 4 Game. You can touch, or click with your mouse, let's say 'teleport' Game Play Data like this, in the following manner:
Player #1 turns on UPnP IGD in the KPN Sagemcom Experia box B12 Modem/Router. UPnP IGD must be enabled in the modem settings due to... the security ? It is possible for gaming according to the KPN (provider in the Netherlands) forum.
Make a rule for a Net Connect 4 version in the Modem and make sure it is turned on.
Save the just made changes.
Let's say in this manner: you are Player #1, your friend Player #2.
Then the rule: Player #1 is searching the host address of his or her computer for filling in the internal host in the Modem, using CMD.EXE (search field on your taskbar) & ipconfig.
In a field after the words 'external host' of the Modem of Player #1, with Portforwarding, the IPV4 item should be recognized by an asterisk typographical symbol or star-shaped character: '*'.
Confirm and Save the rule etc. And Log out out of the Modem. You have to do these Modem Settings only once. I shall state this only once. It applies every case throughout the following testcases or Manual descriptions.
Next Player #1 is searching, using CMD Command-prompt and ipconfig the external host address next, this will Player #2 fill in in the inputfield of his or her or program later, see below.
Then if the data in the Modem was saved, Player #2 touches or presses or clicks, with his or her mousepointer [Listen].
Player #1 is typing in his or her inputfield on the screen with the keyboard the host IP address of computer 2 of Player #2. This IP address of his or her computer of which he/she should have been writing it down earlier, remembering it from a note or by head. It can be found in the Modem connected computer 2 (It is one from the private network addresses in the 192.168.xxx.xxx range, like for example 192.168.2.7 in my case).
Player #2 is typing in the inputfield on the screen of the program on computer 2, the external host IP address of Player #1 on computer 1 found. This IP address Player #1 should have been writing down earlier, remembering and telling it to Player #2, communicating for the purpose of making the Connection eventually later.
Once [Enter] is touched or pressed with the mousepointer on both systems, Player #1 is counting 3..2..1.. & Player #1 touches or clicks with the mousepointer [Connect]. Shortly after this, within 1 or 2 sec. approximately later Player #2 should do the same. Mind the order of actions described, VPN off for both and the last clicking of [Connect] within the 30 seconds time out ? You did it.
Result: Test Succeeded ! Connection established.
Case #2
[Connect]-ing the computer's Modem KPN Experia 10A Box over ADSL & the internet with your opponent (to an Online.nl Provider Modem, for example): within a city. Out of that city, or (with)in any cities, towns or townships is expected to function properly typically or normally too:
Let's say: you are Player #1, your opponent Player #2..
Fill in the Modem with Poort forwarding, nieuw item (or existing item, while repeating the test/procedure), LAN Host : the host address of the internal host as acquired in the way of
Case #1 in my case it is 192.168.2.8 .. (use CMD.EXE & then ipconfig in order to get it again..)
The rule for my opponent in his Modem remains the same like in previous testcase Case #1, as way ago was set for his Online.nl Modem (some years ago for NetMemory.exe, I believe)..
Next my opponent Player #2 is looking up his external IP host address via..
: An Unity / Visual Studio Community 2019 program available from within the Microsoft Store App, Version for 2 players, play via the internet or a LAN against each other !! English language used. NB: Each player across the Net should pay for his or her
own instance of the software. So, there are two instances of the Program needed when playing Online. There is a workaround for this paying-both scheme though, when logging into the same Microsoft account on different devices before playing time starts, for instance when on a network at home, you only have to pay once, unless you have a Promo Code: then you pay nothing at all.
