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Originally Posted by johnspack

Okay, I need some help. Very weird issue. My Rise of Flight sim will not work with a router. I can even dmz my computer, but eventually I get timed out of a rof server. If I disconnect the router, I have no issues. This also occurred with my vanilla linksys router. Don't understand why even if dmz'ed.

If you are using Win 7 X64 then you might have 2 connections that have different network location profiles made based upon the address range the device hands off to your Win 7 machines ethernet card.

Ex. Your router could be set to "Public Network" and your modem could be set to "Private Network", and each network location affects your Windows Firewall settings. When your router hands off a 192 (or whatever local address & router MAC) to your ethernet card Windows will change your network location because you changed connections. This could be the problem if you chose "Public Network" when hooking up your router to your PC.

M$ documentation

Spoiler

"How Windows Firewall affects network locations
The Public network location blocks certain programs and services from running to help protect your computer from unauthorized access while you're connected to a network in a public place. If you're connected to a public network and Windows Firewall is turned on, some programs or services might ask you to allow them to communicate through the firewall so that they work properly.

When you allow a program to communicate through the firewall, it's allowed for every network with the same location as the network you're currently connected to. For example, if you connect to a network in a coffee shop and choose Public network as the location, and you then unblock an instant message program, that program will be unblocked for all public networks that you connect to.

If you plan to unblock multiple programs while you're connected to a public network, consider changing the network location to Home network or Work network. It might be safer to change this one network than affect every public network you connect to from that point on. But remember that if you make that change, your computer will be visible to others on the network, and this is a security risk.
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