TechHit
04-06-2009, 12:15 AM
I was plagued with this problem for MONTHS, until a fellow member of my GH tour group got in touch with Activision, as this was also an issue with GHWT and GH:M. I notice that there's also a thread (http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9807) on these tech support forums that's been going for over a year, with no solution... THAT IS UNTIL NOW!!!!
Various suggestions of "fixes" offered by Harmonix or Sony have resulted in people getting nowhere, and being given the run around. Harmonix would refer you to Sony, Sony would refer you to your ISP. Even those who have put their PS3 in their DMZ, or have "NAT 2" showing up in their PS3, were still having this issue.
I recently lost the ability to play with certain friends, and trying to join an online session would result in an error message saying either the session was "offline" or "no longer available". This was happening in both Rock Band, Guitar Hero: Metallica and Guitar Hero World Tour.
Even if I got another friend to host for us, it would only allow ONE of us to connect to his session, and it was whoever connected to his session first.
Once I opened up these ports (which I couldn't find any reference to in any previous post), I was able to directly connect to my friend in Rock Band and GHWT.
Full credit goes to Ikeusmc in my PS3 Guitar Heroes (http://community.guitarhero.com/tour_groups/633) tour group.
For those who don't know how to open ports on your router, check http://portforward.com/, and it will have full detailed instructions for your router (if it's listed).
Without further adieu, here is the information below.
"OK So if anyone else was having the invite/ "Session is no longer available" crap that has been ****ing me off for some time now I HAVE THE WORKING SOLUTION! I was not able to change my NAT Type 3 down to a 2 OR 1 so I got the right ports from Activision regarding GH:Metallica. IF you open your router and put these in it will allow things to work perfectly. It still will not allow you to have a Type 2 or 1 but it will work none the less.
TCP: 80, 443, 3074, 5223
UDP: 3074, 3478
Now once you plug these into your router you need to save then turn off your router and your PS3. Wait a few minutes and then turn on your router let it fire up then turn on your PS3. I spent a lot of time trying the other junk in different forums NONE worked for me. So when I spoke with Activision they gave me those port numbers (which were different from the forums) and it works great now! All of the other crap and digging through forums a simple email to Activision for the correct port #'s and it took me about 15 minutes for everything. I blew 5 hours messing around for nothing. I hope this helps anyone else with the problem!"
Various suggestions of "fixes" offered by Harmonix or Sony have resulted in people getting nowhere, and being given the run around. Harmonix would refer you to Sony, Sony would refer you to your ISP. Even those who have put their PS3 in their DMZ, or have "NAT 2" showing up in their PS3, were still having this issue.
I recently lost the ability to play with certain friends, and trying to join an online session would result in an error message saying either the session was "offline" or "no longer available". This was happening in both Rock Band, Guitar Hero: Metallica and Guitar Hero World Tour.
Even if I got another friend to host for us, it would only allow ONE of us to connect to his session, and it was whoever connected to his session first.
Once I opened up these ports (which I couldn't find any reference to in any previous post), I was able to directly connect to my friend in Rock Band and GHWT.
Full credit goes to Ikeusmc in my PS3 Guitar Heroes (http://community.guitarhero.com/tour_groups/633) tour group.
For those who don't know how to open ports on your router, check http://portforward.com/, and it will have full detailed instructions for your router (if it's listed).
Without further adieu, here is the information below.
"OK So if anyone else was having the invite/ "Session is no longer available" crap that has been ****ing me off for some time now I HAVE THE WORKING SOLUTION! I was not able to change my NAT Type 3 down to a 2 OR 1 so I got the right ports from Activision regarding GH:Metallica. IF you open your router and put these in it will allow things to work perfectly. It still will not allow you to have a Type 2 or 1 but it will work none the less.
TCP: 80, 443, 3074, 5223
UDP: 3074, 3478
Now once you plug these into your router you need to save then turn off your router and your PS3. Wait a few minutes and then turn on your router let it fire up then turn on your PS3. I spent a lot of time trying the other junk in different forums NONE worked for me. So when I spoke with Activision they gave me those port numbers (which were different from the forums) and it works great now! All of the other crap and digging through forums a simple email to Activision for the correct port #'s and it took me about 15 minutes for everything. I blew 5 hours messing around for nothing. I hope this helps anyone else with the problem!"
