when i join a game on age of empires 2 everyone has a network issues and all other players go to a yellow exclamtion triangle. is there anyway to fix this or is this just a bug

You must forward UDP 16000 in your router configuration and point it to the local ip address of your computer.

how do i do this i have bt

Do you know how to access your router?

yes i do i may have fixed but i am not sure is this correct

Please show me a screenshot of a Port Forwarding Rule and I will tell you, what to fill in the gaps.

The port forwarding rule must point to your computer's local ip address, not to the one of your router!

my ip adress is 192.168.1.96

okay thanks

should do the trick!

okay do i have to do anything after

Unplug the power cable of your router and re-plug it, then join an AOC game lobby and run the network diagnostics from the menu. Paste me the result here, please.

can't do it at the moment

Feel free to come back when you have time.

okay restarted router here is results

Starting networking diagnostics...

Your local network port (UDP) is 16000. All game traffic is routed through this port. This can be changed in "Settings" -> "NAT Traversal".

Attempting to connect to 3 test servers. This will take around a minute to complete...

Received data from 'server 3' through port 16000 (this is your WAN or router port)
Received data from 'server 2' through port 16000 (this is your WAN or router port)
Received data from 'server 1' through port 16000 (this is your WAN or router port)
14 seconds left.
9 seconds left.
4 seconds left.

Test Result: All Pass
Network Health: All tests passed
Recommended Action: None
Details: All tests passed.

For help understanding this report or for more information go to http://www.voobly.com/pages/view/177#Network_Diagnostic_Tool.