Hello, im currently deployed, and my friends and i, are playing warcraft 3 frozen throne and rainbow 6 vegas.
When we set up a ad hoc connection, we are total of 6 players, all of us can connect to the ad hoc, but when we go to local or lan game, and try to find the game or connect, i can't connect to the game or even find the game why is that?

When i connect to the ad hoc, 3/5 times it will connect, and say no internet access but i do have lan acces, but then even when i try to find the game that they created im the only one who cannot see it why is that. we all have the same version of the game.

And also a lot of times i cannot even connect to the ad hoc, i have a bran new Dell laptop, theres no issues with that, but i have no idea how to fix the issue that im currently having.

You could help me out, i would really appreciate that.

 Sincerly ThomasThese games are very network picky. Warcraft 3 for example does not reassociate a network connection if the connection breaks and then comes back right away without exiting the game and then restarting the network peer to peer type gaming. These games were intended originally for stable lan cable connections and dial-up where disconnects were infrequent. WIRELESS networks are not as dedicated of a connection as a real PHYSICAL cable and games that require persistant handshaking can have issues with them.

First to try would be disable the RJ-45 ethernet adapter so that the only network option is WIFI adapter. Some games pick the first from the list no matter if a network is available or not, so disabling the RJ45 Network adapter will make the wifi #1 and the games will use that INSTEAD of an idle enabled and unconnected NIC.

Easy fix would be a network switch and some cables to play the games as they were intended to be originally networked.

Or you can change to a different channel than that of other neighboring wifi, so that cross network channel RF doesnt occur and maximizes your wifi connection to not listen to other networks on the same channel that needs to be as dedicated as possible to your game with its tight handshaking requirements. If you have 2 or more wifi networks on the same channel performance degrades as all the wifi devices have to pick their traffic out of the NOISE as well as answer to incoming packet requests etc. This causes latency and spotty persistant network connectivity which can make these games unhappy.