connecting problems

[Fluffballer]

I recently switched from dial up to high speed wireless. I never had any trouble with the dial up, but the first few times on the wireless I would get connection interrupted after about 6 minutes of play. Then I'd get the error on the character page that I need to configure my firewall etc. After about an hour I'd be able to log back in, but would get CI shortly after. Now I can't log in at all for a couple days; it just stays at the 'connecting to fastest server' message and never connects. Any ideas what's going on? The wireless is a fairly stable signal.

[aminoscrappa]

You need to open up some ports in your firewall. Search a bit at blizzard.com and you should find out which ports need to be opened. Also are you using a router? If so, you will need to make your router allow diablo 2 via router settings.

[Fluffballer]

Wouldn't both of those issues result in me having not gotten on to Bnet at all, instead of CI and THEN the bit about opening the right ports?

[Armor_Biff]

As far as I know, no ports need to be opened if you are only playing on the closed realms. Atleast on Blizzard's site they only have info about opening ports when hosting a TCP/IP or open battle.net game. I've never had a wireless LAN connection so I cant help you with that. I still prefer cables... :uhhuh: