game ports

Could you be just a little more vague? What is the problem? Do you have a game port? Are you connected to the internet via computer or game console? Thanks!

Brandon,

If they were referring to routing, they were probably talking about the ports that your game uses to talk on the network. If you take my article one step deeper, you'll get into ports. Ports are used to tell applications what traffic to look for. For example, when you request a http web site like OmniNerd, you're making a request on port 80. Secure web sites make connections on port 143. Etc, etc, etc.

Your game should be using a "high" port that could be getting filtered out somewhere in the network by something like a firewall. High ports aren't assigned to specific applications and can be used for most anything. Anything above 1024 is a "high" port and is probably what they are referring to. Make sure that neither your router or your ISP are filtering the high ports you need to play your game.

If you want to see the ports that your computer is using the command line command "netstat -an" (in Windows) when your game is running. (Note: you must be an admin to run this command in some Windows setups.)

Now, if you're talking about the "game port" that you plug a controller or joystick in to, then that has nothing to do with routing and is possibly a hardware issue.

I hope this helps a little more than "Anonymous's" sarcasm. :-)