Chuffy's Flying Circus

I did play ye olde internet spaceships for a while but got bored with the constant grinding...

So instead I went and spent all my gaming money on the new Chris Roberts game that hasn't actually been made yet 

Firstly - I'm a civil engineer so I only understand dirt (probably explains my attraction to it when attempting to fly).  As such - please make sure all reply's contain small words

1/ I have version 4.10 - is this the right one? [IL2-1946]
2/ do I need port forwarding (or whatever it's called) where I set up a static IP for the computer?
2a/ I can do the static IP thingy with the router and my computer but if someone can link to an idiot's guide to setup the rest I'd be much obliged
3/ Is the IP for the server the same as the one on the other thread? [does someone mind confirming it so I'm not trying to search for the wrong server]

Notes: at the moment, I've tried goint into 'join multiplayer game' and then entered the IP and hit search - it just said searching and stayed that way.  I had some dinner and it was still searching so I hit cancel.  Not to be dissuaded by Einstein's theories about the definition of madness, I then tried it again - with the same results.  Unperturbed, in the finest traditions of the Brittish, I turned the computer off and on again and had another go.  Then I gave up, fought the computer, lost badly and went to bed.

On a positive note - I managed to get teamspeak working and I'm going to try to convince the boss to let me go shopping for a mic on the weekend so I may soon be soothing your ears with the dulcite tones of my nasally antipodean strine.

Not at all - not scared, just couldn't get the old girl to work on the weekend (and a bit busy with work this week to sort it out until today - finished Tuesday's shift at 0100 on Wednesday).

I'll post my questions in technical - I think I'm being a bit dense but I couldn't get it to log onto your server.

Never fear, I may be as incompetent with an internet connection as I am with a stick and rudder but I'll get there in the end!

pip pip and all that chaps

see you in technical!

Hello all - just wanted to say hello (pronounced with the propper english clip of 'hullo' of course) and introduce myself.

I'm an enthusiastic if incompetent pilot who's played the ai for a while but never tried on-line.  You seem like a merry band of chaps and if you can excuse an interloping antipodean collonial stealing your tea in the mess then I'm in!

I truly don't know if my copy of IL2 even works on line - it is a hacked together backup copy (I lost the origional disk in the move from Australia to England as our gear got caught in the Toowoomba floods as we moved 2 years ago).  So if you don't see me online immediately - its because I'm installing a new more official copy .  Also - my dog ate my headphones (actually, just the mic part) so I won't be on TS immediately either  .  My wife did let me buy a new joystick though so I'm good to go 

Now, where's that matron I've heard so much about - I feel like we've got some things to talk about...