Setting up a dedicated Age of Empires 2 LAN took me 4 hours longer than I planned

So last Saturday I wanted to get a few old buddies together for an AoE2 LAN party, nothing fancy, just 4 of us in my basement. I thought it would be a quick plug and play thing since we all had the HD edition on Steam. Turns out the lobby system kept dropping us and one guy's laptop refused to see the router no matter what. I spent a solid 4 hours messing with port forwarding, firewall exceptions, and even downloaded a third party tool called GameRanger before we got one stable match going. Has anyone else had this much trouble just getting a simple old game to run on modern wifi, or do I just have cursed hardware?

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bennett.luna23d ago

Sympathize completely, that sounds like a real headache. The older games just don't like modern routers and all their security stuff, and it never fails that one person's machine decides to fight you. Sounds like you got there in the end though, and that first stable match probably felt pretty great after all that work.