Dark Souls- Summoning, GFWL and you

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#1 frankopan
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So last night I hit a wall in this great game. Anor Londo, Smaugh and Ornstein. After several unsuccessful attempts as a hollow I decided to leave my comfort zone and spend the one humanity I had in the hopes that I could get some help. Low and behold, several summoning signs were at the boss entrance but....after several attempts of summoning I got "summoning failed".

After some research I found that you need to have your NAT restriction not strict and udnp or w/e it is available. At first I tried to open ports in the router but that is overly complicated for a simpleton like me. So what I did was just disabled the firewalls in windows and it seemed to have worked.

Long stroy short NAT to not strict and Upnp to available. Do it in the router or just disable firewalls (but turn them back on later).

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#2 frankopan
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That reminds me, I need to turn my firewalls back on.....
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#3 PTMags
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Does making an exception with windows firewall not work?

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#4 LookAnDrolL
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Its a well known issue, try to port foward the ports that GFWL use... and pray the other player did it too