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hello so me and my brother both want to play Minecraft together. I have an Alienware laptop and he has a MacBook pro. obviously, my computer is much more powerful than his and would be a better option to host a lan world. here is the problem: when he searches for lan games my world never shows up. also when he tries to direct connect to my world using my ip and port it connects for 5 minutes and then says. io.netty.channel.connecttimoutexception.

when he hosts the world I can see it in the multiplayer section, I can join it from there and I can direct connect all without a problem except that it is laggy because his computer isn't that powerful. please help because I want to play and I want to run a mod with him.

btw this happens with and without the mod installed

any help that will let me host the lan world is appreciated

check your public firewall. try turning it off and try to join. also try turning the public one on

Trend Micro HijackThis is a utility that is used to collect diagnostic reports of your computer to help narrow down an issue you may be having. Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/files/2.0.520beta/HijackThis.exe/download Run the program, choose "I accept", then "Do a scan and save a log file". After a while a text file will open. Copy everything, put the log on http://paste.ubuntu.com and give us the link.
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i have tried with mcaffee and windows defender off and on aswell as mac firewall off and on.

To completely uninstall McAfee products, use this tool: http://us.mcafee.com/apps/supporttools/mcpr/mcpr.asp

mcaffee isnt the problem

how do you kmow?

Mcafee is know to cause issues with login and server joining process. Its also a really bad AV, even abandoned and mocked by its creator

i have turned it off. and it still doesnt work

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i have turned it off. and it still doesnt work

To completely uninstall McAfee products, use this tool: http://us.mcafee.com/apps/supporttools/mcpr/mcpr.asp

uninstall it not turn it off

ok i will try this

sorry for the late reply, it didnt work

check your firewall?. You might need to disable it

i have disabled it but i recently added java as an exception so ill see how that works out for me

it didnt work

im sure of a,b,c.

i have discovered that he cant ping me and i also tried to google online ping my pc and i cant be pinged

any help is appreciated and thanks for all of your earlier responses

i am aware it is my computer due to the fact i can ping everything but nothing can ping me. i am also aware that there is no antivirus blocking the connection n my pc

Make a new HJT report

how do i do this

Trend Micro HijackThis is a utility that is used to collect diagnostic reports of your computer to help narrow down an issue you may be having. Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/files/2.0.5 beta/HijackThis.exe/download

Run the program, choose "I accept", then "Do a scan and save a log file". After a while a text file will open. Copy everything, put the log on http://paste.ubuntu.com and give us the link.