So bascially I never lagged.

And then I got a new computer.

And then I had to reinstall the OS.

And now I lag.

I re-installed StarCraft and Brood War, patched to 1.15.3, told the windows firewall thingy to unblock StarCraft so it could communicate with the intertubes, and it seems that I still lag like a hobo.

The only other lead I have are rumors of some mythical 'port forwarding' technique that apparently makes people not lag.

help/elaborate? I'm finally getting back into StarCraft (not that anyone noticed I was gone, haha), but I can't exactly do that if I can't actually play an games without choking them to horrible death.

Port foward opens the ports from your computer to starcraft so that whenever you host a game, it won't lag (ex: high latency, can't join). However something is wrong whenever I port starcraft (and not others) and port overlap has occured. Sadly, there is no solution to that.

http://portforward.com/routers.htm

i also had problem like this...
what i've done:
opend port 6112 and closed all firewalls [dont worry, i use antivir and check for virus every day]

i just lagg with some peoples, because of a "ip-crash / router conflikt"
this is not fixable till you get a new IP.
hope this helps

My buddy cant play with more as 1 other guy at bnet! is there the same problem with the gate? (he always turns his firewall off when he plays onloine)

you mean me?
thats totally wrong -.-

no i dont mean you i mean luca (Hotslider in bnet) is it cause of the wireless modem?

ahh lul... fisher price modem?

between; if you still lagg and all those "tricks" didn't help; reboot PC xD

e has fast internet like me. I cant test it now because i have to do many things for myself.

If you're playing with someone else on your router, let someone that isnt you or your buddy host.