Why can't I play age of empires on gamespy?

I keep trying to play AOE 1 and 2, but I can't connect to any of them. I have vista if that matters, but i opened all the ports that the support told me to. Any info would be appreciated. THanks.

Sadly, GameSpy is not particularly helpful with routers and firewalls, even though that should be their job.

GameRanger supports the entire Age of Empires series, and lets you play online without all these connection problems.

if you want to play aoe online try aoe 3 they probably don't support 1&2