(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); So despite the many threads on this question, no one has ever really had a definitive answer to how to lock a lobby on CoD 5. I posted this in an older thread already, but i think that some people who could have used the information perhaps over looked it because of how far it was buried. Anyway, here is a list of the possible ways to lock a lobby on cod 5:

1. Upload a video to youtube or any other filesharing website: Not very effective as it must be cancelled before the game starts and you are therefore completely helpless if someone times out or something. However, it works great as far as getting the necessary people into the game lobby before the game actually starts, but you must fill the lobby if you dont want random people joining.
2. Lag switch method: If you go into a game with 6 people and back three out while lag switching with the correct timing, the game will sometimes lock up, and only people you invite can join.
3. Forward all the ports on your router to a non-existent ip address: This is my personal method, but it has its drawbacks. First, Once you enable the port forwarding rule, only the following can connect - people who are already in your party, other playstations that are on YOUR internet connection, and other playstations sharing the same internet connection as the friends in your party. In order to be used effectively therefore, it must be combined with a youtube upload to get the people into the game lobby, then enabled right before the game starts. If done right, it works like a charm. By the way i use a lynksis router for this because unlike many routers, it doesnt require you to reboot when enabling a port forwarding rule, which would sign you out.

Here is a screenshot of my router page to try to help you guys out with any confusion:
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4. Just plain luck: This is the way most of the top boosters lock rooms - they just happen to have an isp that ends up spontaneously giving them locked lobbies. It sometimes happens after a certain sequence of people leaving the game, or even just as soon as they enter the game with a party, but whatever causes it, it works the best because no random people join, but everyone who is invited can.

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r you retarded? honestly? PORT FORWARDING IS A GOD DAMN FEATURE ON THE ROUTER, OBVIOUSLY IM NOT THE FIRST FUCKING PERSON TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO USE THAT FEATURE - ITS IN THE ROUTER MANUAL AND OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE HAVE MADE INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE OF HOW TO USE IT. where in the entirety of that video does it show this locking a lobby on cod:waw? HOLY SHIT YOU REALLY ARE ABSOLUTELY CLUELESS. i am the first person to connect port forwarding to the ability to lock a lobby on cod:waw. When someone posted the proxy server bypass method, did you go and tell them that it was already all over youtube? because whoever posted it was most definitely not the founder of the proxy server, they just found that you can use it to bypass the cod 4 patch. when a scientist or mathematician makes a new discovery with the use of an SEM or calculus, do we give give credit to Max Knoll or Sir Isaac Newton for creating the tools used and insult the scientist for being the one to make new connections, observations and elaborate on the potential uses of those tools? Get a fucking clue and get the hell out of my thread.

nope go ahead be my guest

you have to flip this latch and then it slides out without voiding warranty. but im not replacing it