hi, i have some friends that live in the same town i live in, i don't really know how far but they're pretty close. anyway, i am trying to make a server we can play on, the only thing is the real public servers are too complicated for me and i don't know if LAN will work, i know how to do it but people are saying you need to be connected to the same router. can someone please give me instructions on how to build a public one or what to do with LAN? thank you!;)
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The LAN is your home network, or, the internet source you connect to at your house. So unless they bring their computers over to your place, that's out of the question. What you want to do is portforward on your router. There are many tutorials for that out there, but I'll give you the gist of it here:
You have to login to your router, and to do that, you'll type 192.168.1.1 (this varies from router to router so if it doesn't work, try 192.168.0.1 (I think) ) into the search bar of a web browser. From there you'll login to it with the correct username and password (it varies from model to model, so if you didn't change it from its factory settings, look it up on the internet and see what they are) Then you'll want to find the port forwarding options, which is sometimes under the Advanced tab.
(Once again, this varies from model to model) There will usually be a little box titled "Start Port" and one titled "End Port". In those you'll type in 25565 (as that is minecraft's default port). Then there should be one more box called something like "Host Device" or something, in there you'll put your computer's IP. If you don't know what it is, open command prompt and type in /ipconfig /all (with the space!) Scroll down until you see where it says "IPv4 Address" Take note of what it is and go back to your router's settings.
In the "Host Device" box, type that IP in. If there are any other boxes to fill in, I believe you can just leave them empty (not 100% sure on this). From there, you will want to save and apply those settings, (there should be an option for that down near the bottom of the page or right below where you typed all that). From here, open a web browser and type in "What is my IP" Once you've done that, copy down the IP and put a colon directly after it with the numbers 25565 behind that.
Give that to your friends, it's what they'll connect with. Now, for any of that to be useful to you, you'll need minecraft's server software found here. If you need help installing this, there is a detailed tutorial on the minecraft wiki, as well as a port forwarding tutorial much, much easier to understand than mine.
Hope this helps
~TRen
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hi, i have some friends that live in the same town i live in, i don't really know how far but they're pretty close. anyway, i am trying to make a server we can play on, the only thing is the real public servers are too complicated for me and i don't know if LAN will work, i know how to do it but people are saying you need to be connected to the same router. can someone please give me instructions on how to build a public one or what to do with LAN? thank you!;)
hello! this is link mail! please copy and paste this as you signature and you'll be "cool".
The LAN is your home network, or, the internet source you connect to at your house. So unless they bring their computers over to your place, that's out of the question. What you want to do is portforward on your router. There are many tutorials for that out there, but I'll give you the gist of it here:
You have to login to your router, and to do that, you'll type 192.168.1.1 (this varies from router to router so if it doesn't work, try 192.168.0.1 (I think) ) into the search bar of a web browser. From there you'll login to it with the correct username and password (it varies from model to model, so if you didn't change it from its factory settings, look it up on the internet and see what they are) Then you'll want to find the port forwarding options, which is sometimes under the Advanced tab.
(Once again, this varies from model to model) There will usually be a little box titled "Start Port" and one titled "End Port". In those you'll type in 25565 (as that is minecraft's default port). Then there should be one more box called something like "Host Device" or something, in there you'll put your computer's IP. If you don't know what it is, open command prompt and type in /ipconfig /all (with the space!) Scroll down until you see where it says "IPv4 Address" Take note of what it is and go back to your router's settings.
In the "Host Device" box, type that IP in. If there are any other boxes to fill in, I believe you can just leave them empty (not 100% sure on this). From there, you will want to save and apply those settings, (there should be an option for that down near the bottom of the page or right below where you typed all that). From here, open a web browser and type in "What is my IP" Once you've done that, copy down the IP and put a colon directly after it with the numbers 25565 behind that.
Give that to your friends, it's what they'll connect with. Now, for any of that to be useful to you, you'll need minecraft's server software found here. If you need help installing this, there is a detailed tutorial on the minecraft wiki, as well as a port forwarding tutorial much, much easier to understand than mine.
Hope this helps
~TRen