I have been trying to get a server to work for the past week, so I can play with my friends.
Firstly, the router is not forwarding ports (Buffalo Airstation), so I am awaiting a reply from them about that.
Today I tried to connect using the local IP (192.168.11.X), which has worked to some extent but for some unknown reason it is not working fully.
Me and my flatmate both own a PC and a laptop/netbook each. Only certain devices can connect to servers running on a different device, over the network. What is more strange is that all of the security related products (McAfee, Peerblock) are the same on my PC and netbook.
My PC: Cannot connect to any server, except itself.
My netbook: Can connect to his PC, and itself, but not my PC.
His PC: Can connect to my netbook and itself, but not my PC.
His laptop: Can connect to his PC and my netbook, but not my PC.
Why are some working but not others?
I have tried disabling McAfee, PeerBlock and windows firewall (which is not running), on the PC.
Firstly, the router is not forwarding ports (Buffalo Airstation), so I am awaiting a reply from them about that.
Today I tried to connect using the local IP (192.168.11.X), which has worked to some extent but for some unknown reason it is not working fully.
Me and my flatmate both own a PC and a laptop/netbook each. Only certain devices can connect to servers running on a different device, over the network. What is more strange is that all of the security related products (McAfee, Peerblock) are the same on my PC and netbook.
My PC: Cannot connect to any server, except itself.
My netbook: Can connect to his PC, and itself, but not my PC.
His PC: Can connect to my netbook and itself, but not my PC.
His laptop: Can connect to his PC and my netbook, but not my PC.
Why are some working but not others?
I have tried disabling McAfee, PeerBlock and windows firewall (which is not running), on the PC.
Still not working.
One of our friends has brought his Dell laptop over (Win 7, 64-bit) and it works with the server.
Does anyone have any idea why we are having all of these issues with the server?
Still unable to get my PC to connect to the server on my friend's PC.
EDIT:
Out of desperation I tethered it to my iPhone, to get my PC outside of the network, as it is the only thing wired into the router.
It worked.... so it seems that my router is a pile of