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Ok guys so over my mom's house, I can play multiplayer fine. Everything loads and all that. But then when I try to open up the multiplayer menu over my dad's house, all the servers that work fine over my moms house say they're "polling". And when I leave them for a while, they start saying "can't reach server". When I try to open one, it just says "Connecting to server" forever. I have a perfect internet connection when I'm not on minecraft, so this seems weird. Is there anyway that I can fix this? Is it maybe something with the router? Thanks.

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does your dad's computer have a firewall or antivirus installed that maybe blocking java or minecraft?

No, it doesn't. Is there any other possible ways to fix my problem? I'm really desperate right now.

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can you do a standard ping to the server using the cmd prompt?

Yeah, I'm sorry, but how does that work? I would imagine that I would have to open up command prompt, which i know how to do, but what do I do from there?