Unable to join online games with 10.5.1, 2 or 3.

So, basically I have a problem as well as some of the other friends I have. The problem is that I'm rarely able to join certain users of the game that I play online on gameranger called " Age of Empires II." This problem hasn't bothered me until lately, because usually it's always me that hosts the game (which works fine by the way) However, when I jump over to a game room that I'm not hosting, I am able to join the actual Pre-game room, but then once the host presses "Start" I get the "Unable to Join game" message. And before you ask, IP joining does not work either. I have a few other friends with the exact same problem, same OS, same issue. I've been told that this has to do with the settings in my router, well, I don't have a router, just a modem. I've called my ISP and they have said that the modem is set (by default) to not block any connections going in or out. I have my firewall tab set to "allow all incoming connections" as well. I'll say right now that there are actually a few select hosts that I can join with, only a few, and when I talk to them, they say they have a 10.5 OS and I can join their game just fine. So if I figure out what they did to enable me to join them, then it should work the other way around. So my question is, what did those few hosts do to their computer to make it so I could join?

No firewall on, the firewall tab in my security pane is set to "allow all incoming connections" is there another firewall that I need to worry about?

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