As stated in the title of this thread, if your going to fly on ws pilots can you please OPEN YOUR PORTS there are at least 2 people that I know off at the minute that don't appear to have their ports open (i'll pm them about it), it's not that difficult to open them.(there has even been complainents on the ws pilots forums about some people from sim v not having their ports open.)
1.go to http://www.portforward.com/
2.follow the instructions there for opening the ports on your router.
3. Allow ws pilots ports for your router and add them to the exceptions list for windows firewall (I don't have to put the ports in my exceptions but I know that for some reason most others do.
4. Join ws pilots and if its a scheduled get together e.g. italy tour, war games, sim v airshow etc If nobody joins shortly after you then you probably don't have your ports open.
How can you tell if your ports are open?
Fly with somebody else but try to get them to join the server after you, if they can join then your ports are most likely set up properly.
What ports are needed to fly on ws pilots servers?
UDP 23456 [FS9]
UDP 23457 [FS9] WSP Custom
UDP 23458 [FS9] WSP Custom
UDP 6073 [FS9]
UDP 23432 [FSNavigator]
(Apparently you also need the FSNavigator port open on your firewall even If you don't use fsnavigator )
How can I tell if somebody doesn't have their ports open and what can I do about it?
It seems to be that the person that doesn't have their ports open is usuallly the last person to join the server ( altough im not certain about this) if you think somebody doesn't have their ports open then don't name and shame them but send them a pm, asking them to open their ports.
Note: this isn't meant to be a tutorial (look at the stickys for them) but more of a request for pilots to open their ports so everybody can have fun.
Simviation Forums
Flight Simulator and other chat
- but have since remedied my ports (router & firewall).
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