Phoenix flying session arrangements/times

[Pat (rActive) Harbord]

Looks like it's working OK now.

Once i've worked out what I did to fix it, i'll put up a little guide for configuring the BT home hub 2 (the black one)

[David Ashby - Moderator]

OK, anyone fancy a fly later or tonight?

[Alan B]

Yep  -  like to  - however I have turned the firewall off - still no connection.  Sometimes I can connect to the odd session but its pot luck. I would prefer to fly with people I communicate with   I just cant connect to who I want to !!!!

[Pat (rActive) Harbord]

Alan, I feel your frustration
did you do the port forwarding thing? I've got mine working with the firewall on

which router do you have?
I think Pheonix works more on a peer to peer basis rather than a central server, which is why everyone has to be configured correctly.

I have to go out now for the afternoon, but will leave the rActive session up and runningif you whish to try it

[Alan B]

How do you do the port forwarding  thing?   I have a  Netgear  wireless router

[Pat (rActive) Harbord]

I'll look it up and come back to you, you could try a google search in the mean time

you basicaly have to make sure ports 9000 to 9005 are forwarded to the pc you are using (make sure you use the UPD protocol) I think of ports like channels and 9000 - 9005 are reserved for pheonix to talk over.

There should be info in the manual that came with the router (or most likely online)

[Pat (rActive) Harbord]

Hi all, I usually have a session running (day or night)

rActive fly in

p/w r4ctive

[Alan B]

Got it sorted !!!   went on your session to test.  Connects to others aswell.  Thanks for that.  For anybody else who has had this problem.  Go to the support section on the Phoenix website it gives you the info on port forwarding.

[Pat (rActive) Harbord]

EDITED - we must have been typing at the same time

Alan, you may well be ahead of me. I found this link
http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/N101145.asp

looks fairly comprehensive (not sure exactly which router you have)
Let us know how you get on

[Alan B]

Thanks was ahead of you

I checked out the Netgear website and proceeded from there. Then followed the instructions on the Phoenix site

As above    sorted !!    thanks again

Al

[Pat (rActive) Harbord]

For info; when hooking your TX to a sim, you can save power - increase battery duration buy removing the crystal or turning of the RF module if you have a fancy radio. This also saves shooting anyone down if you live near a park.

[Alan B]

Thanks

I know about the xtal bit.  I use my Specktrum DX -7 you do not need to switch it on. The lead just plugs in the back and off you go. just like the buddy lead does.

Cheers

[Pat (rActive) Harbord]

sorry about the odd postings, something is causing them to repeat

mod - please feel free to delete this one

I'll look it up and come back to you, you could try a google search in the mean time

you basicaly have to make sure ports 9000 to 9005 are forwarded to the pc you are using (make sure you use the UPD protocol) I think of ports like channels and 9000 - 9005 are reserved for pheonix to talk over.

There should be info in the manual that came with the router (or most likely online)

[Ralph Yeates]

Hi all IHMO the way the flight sim works is you host the fly in on your computer and others come through the Internet and connect to your session. The Sim runs on ports 9000-9005 and is treated like a game when your PC send the request to my PC then the traffic from your PC hits my router and if the ports are not open on my router you don't get in, your blocked. So in a nut shell who ever is hosting the session needs to go on the web / read the router manual and set up port forwarding on their routers to let people connect to the session.  as rActive said above
Fire walls these are great but you must also let the firewall pass traffic for the same port numbers, to see if this the issue then turn off the firewall and if you then get in you need to read on how to let these ports come through on the firewall. Don't forget to turn it back on as some people have not discovered model flying yet and prefer to write malicious software.
I have now opened these ports on my router so will host a fly in to night to test the set up.
site is              model.flying.co.uk
password       rcme
19:00 see you there.

Phoenix uses UDP ports 9000 - 9005 to communicate online

Port forwarding

[Ralph Yeates]

"flybetterthanu" nice flying thanks for coming i know the ports are set up correctly now.

[Pat (rActive) Harbord]

good to fly with you tonight Alan, (I mean red one) the hawks are a lot of fun.

I was busy configuring a new apache server so I can, among other things, have a permanent Phoenix session running.

Ralph, thanks for sorting the links, I'll try to hook up with you tomorrow

[260 Flyer]

Thanks for the session, I was good to fly for more than a couple of minutes without loosing the link.

[Alan B]

Yes   good laugh  rActive (name unknown!)  and Rob (Red 2 )  thanks again for sorting the links.  One thing I did notice though that when I changed the smoke on my aircraft it changed Robs aswell !

[260 Flyer]

Someone kept crashing my plane as well!

[Alan B]

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[Tom Foreman]

Well I have ordered the Phoenix Sim, will have a go at joining in this weekend if the software turns up in the next day or so.

Cheers

Tom

[260 Flyer]

Eric Bray wrote (see)

Ah, so you can shoot each other down with a sim!

Not as such, but you can watch what others are doing while you bite the dust!

[Ralph Yeates]

Eric it's the same as the flying field if you crash in to some one else then you both crash but you don't need the "Bin Bag" it just restarts and you fly again.

[David Ashby - Moderator]

Are we on for tonight chaps ?