I am in Asutralia and when ever try to play on line I only see one red bar

I got sick off the lag and tried to host a game.  Either no body wants to join or there is something in my router or firewall stopping them?

I run windows xp sp2 and I have created an exception for cfs3 in the firewall as well as all of the ports that are publish on MS web sight.

My modem/router is a Netcomm NB3.  I have disabled the firewall in it and turned off IP filters.

Still no luck......can someone please help me.....I have chatted to a couple of other Aussie guys while playing who seem to have the same problem which is why we all ended up playing on a Japanese host that night ???

Please help me...I'm soooo frustrated!!!

dave, try here http://www.com-central.net/
Some experienced online guys around there, guess one should be able to anser your questions.