MP Connectivity Problems in the Beta Patch

[Twogs]

So I have an MP game with my brother.

But when we switch to the beta patch suddenly he is in a "restricted network" and can't join. Getting back to the regular version and we can play again.

Disabling all firewalls and the like didn't help either.

Any ideas? Known Problem?

 

[Strikerman]

We are having the same problem. Restarting the game and letting another player host the savegame helps from time to time, but we need like 5 tries each time we load our current savegame.

 

[RationalLemming]

Yeah. I tried to play MP last Friday on the beta branch with five others. Only one of them was and to connect while the others could not and received a weird error about firewall or something. We had to revert to not use the beta branch for our game. It was the patch before the 555a beta version.