Author Topic: Port Forwarding problems...  (Read 794 times)

Hi guys. A while back I had a Minecraft server running on an old computer that we had laying around. Today, I decide to start it up again and play with some of my friends on it but it won't work. Anyone that's on my wifi can connect fine, but anyone that's not on it can't. Since this wasn't working I checked all the other ports that I have open, and none of them worked.

Here's what canyouseeme.org says:

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Error: I could not see your service on 71.205.74.178 on port (25565)
Reason: Connection timed out

Here's what I'm using:

For our router we a have WRT54GL (it's amazing :D), and for our modem we have an ARRIS TG862.

Really, the only thing that has changed since the last time I hosted was getting the new ARRIS moden. We signed up for Comcast's triple play thing. The modem they gave up actually is a router too, but it didn't broadcast as far as the WRT54GL, so I have it hooked in to the ARRIS modem. Do I need to turn something off in the modem's settings maybe?

Anyways, here's what I'm doing, maybe I'm missing a step or something.

So first I go to cmd on the computer that I'm hosting from and get the iPv4 address.

Then I go to my router page and put in it's preferred IP address.



And then that should be all, right? Any help would be appreciated guys. Oh and if you need any more info I'll upload some more pictures 'n stuff


A port checker (such as the one from canyouseeme.org) can only "see" you if you're hosting the server with the port binded.

old computer as in, you're hosting with a new one?


A port checker (such as the one from canyouseeme.org) can only "see" you if you're hosting the server with the port binded.
So when the server is running?

old computer as in, you're hosting with a new one?
No, still with the old one. It's not old old, it's just a junky Windows 7 computer we had laying around.

http://portforward.com
I know how to port forward :(

Hm. Are both the router and the modem/router trying to do DHCP?