im trying to connect to some friends in tj in order to play some games from stl since im on coop but whenever i try to ping them it timesout on me but when they try it, it works fine on their end. any ideas if its IT or something else that my exhauted brain isnt thinking of and a possible solution please. thank you for any help.

Are you VPN'ed into UMR?

you should look at the source of whohaw's post

"source:VPN"

LAWL. owned by the guy lighting himself on fire

doh.

ya i tried to vpn into the network to see if that might sircumvent(sp?) anything that might be getting blocked but to no avail.

When I play with friends using hamachi, all of us have to turn off our firewalls. For some reason, the firewalls just don't like making rules concerning hamachi.