Try not to tell people what is the right thing to do and what isn’t at this stage – Unless you KNOW you have your facts straight. This might help some folk –
Taken from
www.Gameranger.com Network Changes from GameRanger 4.5 Onwards
GameRanger 4.5 introduces a significant new feature that bypasses the common problems that modems and routers cause with hosting (and sometimes joining) games. No setup or configuration is required, and all just works automatically.
In rare cases, some users with certain types of routers may still have problems joining or hosting, particularly if they have firewalls that are explicitly blocking ports. You will know if you are having network issues before you even launch the game because your name will remain in italics in the game room even after 10 seconds after joining the game room. If you can join other rooms or host games for other people just fine, it may be the other person that has the network problems.
If you do have a troublesome router, you can fix the problem by configuring the router to enable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), or manually do port forwarding for UDP port 16000. See Hosting Help for information about port forwarding. If you have a firewall, you'll need to stop it from blocking that port.
This feature is not supported for Mac OS 9 users, and also not supported for games running in the Classic environment.
This feature is currently not supported on Intel Macs, but should be supported later.
People are experiencing different problems with various games. Unfortunately it is hard to say when these will be resolved, but please try to be patient. You may like to try the following in the meantime -
• Try restarting your computer.
• Try trashing gr and game plist’s
• Try trashing Gameranger and Gameranger prefs and re-download Gameranger.
These are
NOT long term solutions, but may help you join games.