Tester(s) needed!

DoorKnobHandle · Tue 28/08/2012 01:59:19

I've been looking into multiplayer programming (commonly called "netcoding") over the last couple of months and now I would love to find a couple people to actually test my work with. This is neither game nor AGS related (yet?), so I decided to post here and not in the Recruitment area, if that was the wrong decision, please kindly move the thread where it belongs!

I'm looking for a handful of people that have stable internet (speed doesn't matter, it's good to test both fast and slow connections), are willing to spare 10 minutes or so every now and then, are willing to add exceptions for my programs to their firewall and - if they are behind a router - have access to the router to check for blocked ports and such.

Let me know if any of you are kind enough to help me out by posting in this thread and I'll get back to you! It goes without saying that whatever we'd end up testing is all 100% safe software but you will have to take my word for that!

Baron · Tue 28/08/2012 02:38:32

I can afford 10 minutes every now and then, and I meet all those criteria. You unblock a router port with a vacuum cleaner, right?

Icey · Tue 28/08/2012 04:43:21

I'm willing to test.

DoorKnobHandle · Tue 28/08/2012 15:52:24

PMs sent! Anybody else?

Anian · Tue 28/08/2012 20:30:37

Sorry, would like to help but my router is very fidgety about port forwarding etc. and I have trouble with it even when it is "working".

DoorKnobHandle · Wed 29/08/2012 19:24:23

No worries! If there's anybody else willing to help, I'm still looking for more people to try this with! If you're capable of accessing your router and have a relatively normal, standard internet connection (and are able to get onto some instant messenger, too, for instruction and such) then please let me know, it helps me out greatly!

DoorKnobHandle · Thu 30/08/2012 20:36:08

I'm still looking for more people! Even if you can't do anything with your router or don't have one, it's fine. You really just need to be able to spare 10 minutes of time and be willing to download and run a 17KB program I wrote that will try and connect to me and vice versa!

ced117 · Thu 30/08/2012 23:07:47

I can help if you want, but i will be using Wine on Linux.
Will this be a problem for your test ?

arj0n · Fri 31/08/2012 19:30:18

Still need people, dkh?

DoorKnobHandle · Fri 31/08/2012 21:03:58

I do indeed, PMs sent!