Doom Multiplayer Problems

[raptir]

I'm trying to play Doom with my friend across the country. I've tried with several different source ports, to no avail. I finally discovered the issue when I tried Skulltag; it's setting up the servers behind our firewalls. It'll always give the 192.168.*.* IP address for the server, obviously indicating a local server. Is there any way to get around this without getting rid of the routers? Thanks.

[Bloodshedder]

Set up port forwarding properly, and figure out what your external IP address is.

[GreyGhost]

raptir said:

It'll always give the 192.168.*.* IP address for the server, obviously indicating a local server. Is there any way to get around this without getting rid of the routers?

Login to your router and see what it's reporting as your "WAN IP Address" or alternately Google "what's my ip". If your Internet account has a dynamic IP you should expect the address to change fairly often.