Stuck at "Finding character XY..."

[Landaros]

<p>I have 2 desktop PCs and one Laptop attached to a router to play EQ2.</p><p>The desktop computers have XP installed and eq2 runs without any problems</p><p>The laptop uses vista ultimate and i havent had problems playing the game till I had to switch my router.</p><p>Since then I can start the program to update it, but when choosing a character it stops at "Finding character XY...".</p><p>All the suggestions i found in this forum so far dont seem to fit since i can update the files so I am not sure if there are special ports i need to open up.</p>

[TSR-KenC]

<p>EQ2 does have certain ports that may need to be forwarding in some router setups. Here's the full on list:</p><p>--</p><p>EverQuest II LaunchPad and Patch Servers A TCP connection is initiated from the LaunchPad client port > 1023 to patch.station.sony.com port 7000. A UDP connection is initiated from the LaunchPad client port > 1023 to sdlaunchpad1.station.sony.com and sdlaunchpad2.station.sony.com port range 3016-3021 and 9700-9703.EverQuest II Patch:A TCP connection is initiated from the EverQuest II client port > 1023 to patch.everquest2.com, abepatch.everquest2.com, laepatch.everquest2.com, or amspatch.everquest2.com at port 7010. Some of the above patchers resolve to multiple IP addresses, so if you have a strict outbound firewalling policy, be sure to check for all IP addresses using a DNS lookup tool.EverQuest II Game Client:UDP connections are initiated from the EverQuest II client port >1023 to servers on UDP ports 9100, and UDP ports in the range 32800-33000. Additionally, ICMP messages type 0 (echo reply), 3 (unreachable), 8 (echo request) and 11 (expired) should be permitted bi-directionally between the client PC and the EverQuest II servers.</p><p>--</p><p>Let me know if that information needs any clarifying!</p>