I need help with portforwarding.

[jungemann]

I have gone to portforward.com and i found my router and did exactly what the guide said. I also set up a static ip but for some reason it still says that my server is dead. I turned off my firewall and that didnt seem to change anything. I have norton antivirus, does that do anything to stop me? If anyone can please help me I would appreciate it very much. I would love to host a server because i have alot of addons and would love to be able to host my own server.

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[Dilt]

I have gone to portforward.com and i found my router and did exactly what the guide said. I also set up a static ip but for some reason it still says that my server is dead. I turned off my firewall and that didnt seem to change anything. I have norton antivirus, does that do anything to stop me? If anyone can please help me I would appreciate it very much. I would love to host a server because i have alot of addons and would love to be able to host my own server.

Norton Internet Security tends to do wacky things. It can even kill your connection based off of a few text words which I won't mention on here. I'm not sure if you have that or not, but yeah. Do you know your (LAN) IP? Check it with start -> run -> cmd -> ipconfig, it'll tell you your current IP. Are the ports forwarded to that IP?

[jungemann]

I'll try to do what you said right now and I will see if that works.

[jungemann]

I already put my ip address in on the port range deal
I put this-
Blockland Ports-28000-28030 Protocol-Both My ipadress enable
then i saved settings and it still says dead.
And all I have for Norton is Norton Antivirus and for that there is a catagory called web browsing-limited coverage. ??? I dont know if that affects it.

[jungemann]

can someone please help?

[Dilt]

How are you checking if it's dead or not?

[jungemann]

we have two computers and my little brother is upstairs and checks to see if it is dead.

[Dilt]

we have two computers and my little brother is upstairs and checks to see if it is dead.

That won't work with some routers. The IP in the Master List is called your 'WAN' IP, and it's what you connect to the internet with. Some routers don't recognize that the 'WAN' IP on the Master Server list is your own. The only way you can test is to host and have someone from the internet join it. Make a game, I'll see if I can join.

If you want to have someone else from your house actually join the game, tell your brother to use Connect to IP using your LAN IP (the one you forwarded the ports to) and game port (ex:192.168.1.1:28000).

[jungemann]

right now im at a hotel so i cant play bl. so how about ill try to get on around 6 o' clock and ill probably have it named as zeldas server or zeldas freebuild.

[jungemann]

I meant to say 6 o' clock tommorrow.

[jungemann]

I still can't get it to work. anyone have any ideas on how to fix it?

[jungemann]

BUMP! Problems still not fixed!

[Tom]

Cable or DSL? Your ISP? Do you have a broadband modem? Ive been having some similar problems and if you have a Speedstorm DSL that Frontier (ISP) gave to you it might have port forwarding disabled.

[jungemann]

I have DSL, my isp is Santel, yea i have a modem connected to my router, i don't know if that does anything.

[Tom]

You may have too port forward on your modem too. Your modem probably has a brand on it Google the brand and find the official website. They might have instructions. I don't know for sure but that's my guess.