Topic: Proxy to load online games

[Yona-TYT]

Hello everyone..!


I was wondering if there is any way to use proxy service to load a game online.


The problem is that Simutrans uses direct internet connection and this is not working for me. 

[prissi]

That depends on your proxy. If the proxy leaves the connection open and does not set up a new connection with each packet it would work. However, if this is not the case almost no online game will work.

You can try to use a VPN tunnel. This should also tunnel through a proxy, if implemented correctly. Or use IPv6, which should also go through a proxy (but then there is only one server at the moment).

[Yona-TYT]

No way.


Applications that do not have proxy configured (Address and Port) do not have internet access, it happens on my computer.

[prissi]

It is very unlikely that a proxy forwards the simutrans ports. Hence a VPN over port 8080 should work. People also use hamamachi to play simutrans.

But a proxy means that many user get the same IP and a considerably extra delay. I am not aware of any games working with a proxy (apart from running in the browser by JavaScript, which is something entirely different).