Hosting BL with hamachi

[NotBomberguy]

Is it possible to host BL with Hamachi?

[Ad Bot]

[phflack]

should be

[Zeblote]

No, it is purposely blocked so you don't simulate a lan game with people that don't own the game.

There's also no need to use it at all, you just have to use upnp or forward the server port.

[phflack]

interesting, so BL actually goes out of it's way to detect it?
and I thought Hamachi was normally used as an alternative to port forwarding, since not everybody can use UPnP or port forward

[Shift Kitty]

It was not intended to be an alternative to port forwarding and it's very very bad if you use it for that.
It's intended purpose is playing LAN games over the internet.

Port forwarding is very simple and the only reason you should have for not being able to do it is if you don't have permission, or if you're using one of those stuffty bell router/modem combo pieces of stuff.
And if you don't have permission, whoever is in control of said situation is probably too dumb to disable UPnP, assuming your router isn't a dinosaur and supports it.

[phflack]

It was not intended to be an alternative to port forwarding and it's very very bad if you use it for that.
It's intended purpose is playing LAN games over the internet.

I've seen it most used to play internet games with other people without port forwarding, since it works for LAN games as well

Port forwarding is very simple and the only reason you should have for not being able to do it is if you don't have permission, or if you're using one of those stuffty bell router/modem combo pieces of stuff.
And if you don't have permission, whoever is in control of said situation is probably too dumb to disable UPnP, assuming your router isn't a dinosaur and supports it.

or some places like apartment buildings don't give you the option of either

[Pecon]

or some places like apartment buildings don't give you the option of either

You usually just pay for your own internet connection at apartments, same as any other residence...

[phflack]

You usually just pay for your own internet connection at apartments, same as any other residence...

not for all of them
I'm not saying it's common to be unable to port forward/use UPnP, I'm just saying that the it does exist
I used to use UPnP while at home, but now that I'm in college I have access to neither (and do live in an apartment building), but this doesn't really affect me since I have access to a server at penn that I can host things off of

[Zeblote]

Well, if everyone on your college network used it to host servers, it'd probably die. There's usually a reason if you can't use uPnP or forward a port.

[phflack]

Well, if everyone on your college network used it to host servers, it'd probably die. There's usually a reason if you can't use uPnP or forward a port.

funnily enough, it's the apartment network that I can't
on the college network I could, and had a 1 Gb/s upload and download

it doesn't really seem like they know what they're doing with the network

[Shift Kitty]

Your apartment sucks.