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When I try and play Age of Empires II online my network goes offline and I have to reset the router to get it back on. I enter the IP of the game I'm joining, double click on the game I'm joining and I get in, but after 1 or 2 minutes in there I get disconnected. I have opened the port for the game on my router and firewall and I have the Windows Firewall disabled.

Anyone know what the problem is?

Cheers.

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I play other games such as Call of Duty 2 and Medal of Honor Allied Assault online with no problems, internet stays on for me and the two other people on network, just thought I'd add this because it may help. Also, it's a wireless network.

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I play other games such as Call of Duty 2 and Medal of Honor Allied Assault online with no problems, internet stays on for me and the two other people on network, just thought I'd add this because it may help. Also, it's a wireless network.

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When I go offline I get these messages in Event Viewer:

Your computer was not able to renew its address from the network (from the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address 0004E225A398. The following error occurred:
The semaphore timeout period has expired. . Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server.

Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the Network Card with network address 0004E225A398. The IP address being used is 169.254.252.43.