Opening Ports

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Hi guys I’m new around here, and have a couple of questions. First, I’m using version 4.7 Home edition, and the windows normal firewall, also using XP Home. I’m trying to play online Flight Simulator 2004, and I have tried to open some ports in the windows firewall and so far that has not worked. The people that have been helping me with this say that it is probably my avast and want me to change to AVG but I love avast.

So what I would like to know is, is there a way to open ports in avast? is there something I can do to open these ports:

23456
23455
23457

I can tell you that I already added them as an exceptions on the windows firewall settings. Are UDP or TCP? not sure.

Thanks in advance
Dan

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There is nothing you can do to open ports in avast! Avast! as a antivirus does not open or close ports, it checks for viruses. It has some network related components, but nothing that might be blocking TCP or UDP ports in the way you describe.

You can however turn avast! Resident protection and see if it makes any difference.

Lukas.

3

I tried it with no luck. So it has to be the windows firewall. Is there a way to uninstall that one and install something else that is more user friendly?

Thanks for your help

Dan

4

Weird I can’t ping the IP I want, I can telnet IP##### 80 but telnet IP##### 23456 wont go. If I go to a browser I can get to the Ip and see it.

5

The windows firewall is an integral part of windows, however, when you install another more competent and or configurable firewall it should disable the windows one. You may be better served to add not the ports but the executable file that runs flight sim to the exceptions.

This may not resolve your problem completely as you talk of ‘more user friendly’ I would say that the windows firewall is user friendly as there really is sod all you can do with it and I don’t think in the time that I was using it there was ever a time when user interaction was required.

If you choose a third party firewall it is most likely to be more resource hungry that the XP firewall.

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It isn’t hard to add port exceptions in the Windows firewall.

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7

Thank you guys. I’ll probably will have to go with a different firewall, that overrides the default one. Adding the flight simulator and adding the ports didn’t do the trick :-\

Thanks again
Dan

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If permitting the ports in the Windows firewall didn’t help, I highly doubt that another Firewall would make any difference
but, there’s nothing wrong in trying.
The following forum seems to have a lot of help and tweaks and might be of help to you. :slight_smile:
http://www.flightsimworld.com/forums/