Port Forwarding for the Absolute Dummy

[Ephialtes]

Port Forwarding is a method of telling your router (where the internet comes into your house) where to send certain bits of information. Blockland happens to need information coming from ports 28000 to 28030 so your router must be told to send all information for those ports, to your Blockland game.

Luckily for you there is a handy dandy website which is up-to-date and will explain precisely how to do this:
BEFORE YOU START: Don't do step one of the website guide (yes, the one that says "Do not skip this step!", instead follow the steps i outlined in part 4 of my guide.
1. Click on THIS TEXT

2. Find your Router model number from the list and click it. Usually you can find this information by looking at the router itself, or asking your parents or whoever bought it.

3. Look through the applications list for "Blockland", Click it. Don't do anything yet, just do this next step:

4. You need to find the LAN IP of your computer. This can be done in one of two ways:

• Right click your network icon in the bottom right, it should be two little computers (or if you're on wireless, a computer with waves coming out of it)
• Click Status in the menu
• Click the Support tab at the top of the window
• Find your number that is in the same position as the red box in the picture below, and type it in the box under "Do not skip this step" on the Port Forwarding page.

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OR

• Go to Start
• Click Run...
• Type "cmd" without quotes and press enter
• Type "ipconfig" without quotes and press enter
• Find your number that is in the same position as the red box in the picture below, and type it in the box under "Do not skip this step" on the Port Forwarding page.

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5. Follow the on-screen instructions. Don't do anything except follow those instructions. (Except instruction 1 which we did in the previous step)

6. If it fails to work at some point in the future, its probable that your LAN IP has changed and you will need to go back into the router, and change it. Just repeat step 5 to find out your new one. Alternatively you can try to find LAN IP Reservation on your router, so that your computer always gets given the same IP.

I find the Blockland guide to port forwarding to be very outdated, and it doesn't cover individual routers. Hopefully this will help a few misguided people out.

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[Lockenth]

Works, updated and works (mainly because of portforward.com) I bet noobs wouldn't of knew that

[bignose]

mine router isint on that list yes its a motorola why innit on the list

[Lockenth]

Umm... thats the modem I belive motorola makes modems not routers I believe...

[Shocklink]

idk if this works cause i already fowarded my router but this got stickied.

btw, we need to clear some stickies in help

[luv4manga]

ok, I hope I'm doing something wrong when I click on the text, cause I am NOT spending another thirty bucks just so I can play blockland!!!!

[n0cturni]

My main problem is that in step one, the box says 192.168.1.(box)

It expects you to put one more number in it, and it feels like i'm doing something wrong when I put my whole ip in it. It also asks for the server ip address, and on the help part, it says

.....you'll only need to specify the computer's IP address. Otherwise, the port number and computer's IP address for each service, game or application should be specified by clicking the Add Custom Service button.

Do you absolutely need to have a static IP to forward your ports?

Also, I might have one, but I dont know what it is and I can't find a way to find out what it is.

And is there any way to set up a static IP address without shutting down your connection?

[Ephialtes]

You shouldn't need a static ip to host - however if your computer disconnects from your network, another device may be assigned your old network ip and you'll be given a higher one - which means you'd have to go and change the ip on the router again.

About the IP, I remember you saying your IP was 10.x.x.x, so in the box put 90, and on the page wherever you see 192.168.1.90, replace it with your own 10.x.x.x ip when you do the instruction.

[laremere]

Your externial ip needs to remain static or users will be lagged out, and your authentication will fail next time it tries to authenticate.  It has happened to me several times (and yes, I confirmed my ip was changing.)

[Ephialtes]

Well i've never heard of an internet connection that changes its external ip that many times. At any rate, there's nothing you can do about that except buy a static one from your ISP.

Or maybe you're confused about lan and external ips?

[bignose]

WTH my router don't support port forwarding

[Ephialtes]

Better get a new one, or give up your dreams of hosting a Blockland server online.

[n0cturni]

The main problem for me now, I think, is the server IP box(es), and the fact that my router is not on the portforward.com list; It is the v4 version instead of v3. Is there any way you can do this remotely?

[Ephialtes]

Depends if your router has remote access or not. You should look for the setting.

[jungemann]

What would be causing this? I have a nice powerful computer, but for some reason when I am hosting I get massive lag when someone joins. I am assuming it has something to do with my internet?