Hi I was trying to set up a server but on my router's gateway I don't have internal or external ports, only WAN and LAN. I have tried putting 25565 in both boxes to no avail. (Sorry if this is obvious and what I tried was completely stupid.) Does anyone know what to do? I believe I have Technicolor tg799 if that helps.
I believe you are trying to port forward? If so, then the WAN and LAN are the IP's. LAN stands for local area network or in other words, its the address that the router gave your computer so it knows where to send information when you are using the internet. WAN is the public IP assigned to your router by your service provider.
Go into your router and click on the port forwarding tab (possibly under advanced). Enable this then follow the below steps:
When port forwarding, you use the port 25565 which is default for minecraft for the internal and external ports. Your router will want an ip so it knows where to send the traffic going through the port 25565. You can find this (on Windows) by opening cmd or command prompt on your computer and typing ipconfig. This will bring up a bunch of stuff, if you are using ethernet (a wired connection) look for an address under the ethernet adapter section (I will upload a photo to show this). If you are using wifi, look for your wireless LAN adapter. Look under these sections for your ipv4. This is the address which you will put in your router port forwarding section. The starting and ending port it asks for is 25565 for both.
After that you need to put that ipv4 from the cmd into your server properties file with port 25565 in their respective places.
If done correctly, you should be able to google "what is my ip" take that and send it to your friends and they should be able to use that to connect.
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Thank you and sorry I took so long to reply, I've done all one the cmd IPv4 stuff you mentioned earlier and am stuck on port-forwarding. My router doesn't have options for internal and external ports. It only has NAME, WAN AND LAN, PROTOCOL and DESTINATION IP. How am I supposed to specify it should be connecting through 22565?
I'm on mobile right now so will post pics of router interface if I remember later.
to get your ipv4 adress hold the windows key then press "r" after that type in that little box cmd, then a promt window will appear, type "ipconfig" scroll down until you see where it says ipv4, your adress should be right next to it, if u want to not use that for people to join your server use no-ip, I didnt have to configure my no-ip for minecraft so I would suggest to leave it and go on a website by typing server status checker, the top link should be a dinnerbone website, type the ip into that, example "randomservername.ddns.net" if the query gives back a result (only after your server is running as well a duc/no-ip and you pressed edit hosts on the no-ip/duc screen and ticked your server ip that you are using) then everything is running fine, if it doesn't work go into the duc/no-ip website and configure your stuff to be friendly with the system, in the really easy to use website you can choose "minecraft server" and it will fix anything that went wrong (hopefully)
Hi I was trying to set up a server but on my router's gateway I don't have internal or external ports, only WAN and LAN. I have tried putting 25565 in both boxes to no avail. (Sorry if this is obvious and what I tried was completely stupid.) Does anyone know what to do? I believe I have Technicolor tg799 if that helps.
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Curse PremiumI believe you are trying to port forward? If so, then the WAN and LAN are the IP's. LAN stands for local area network or in other words, its the address that the router gave your computer so it knows where to send information when you are using the internet. WAN is the public IP assigned to your router by your service provider.
Go into your router and click on the port forwarding tab (possibly under advanced). Enable this then follow the below steps:
When port forwarding, you use the port 25565 which is default for minecraft for the internal and external ports. Your router will want an ip so it knows where to send the traffic going through the port 25565. You can find this (on Windows) by opening cmd or command prompt on your computer and typing ipconfig. This will bring up a bunch of stuff, if you are using ethernet (a wired connection) look for an address under the ethernet adapter section (I will upload a photo to show this). If you are using wifi, look for your wireless LAN adapter. Look under these sections for your ipv4. This is the address which you will put in your router port forwarding section. The starting and ending port it asks for is 25565 for both.
After that you need to put that ipv4 from the cmd into your server properties file with port 25565 in their respective places.
If done correctly, you should be able to google "what is my ip" take that and send it to your friends and they should be able to use that to connect.
If I helped you will you please click the green arrow below? Thanks!
Thank you and sorry I took so long to reply, I've done all one the cmd IPv4 stuff you mentioned earlier and am stuck on port-forwarding. My router doesn't have options for internal and external ports. It only has NAME, WAN AND LAN, PROTOCOL and DESTINATION IP. How am I supposed to specify it should be connecting through 22565?
I'm on mobile right now so will post pics of router interface if I remember later.
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Curse PremiumSorry i took so long,
If you could attach a screen shot of your routers port forwarding screen that would be great!
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Sorry I took so long as well.
25565 in both with the destination IP being your computer's IPv4 address.
Leave protocol as is. Some would say you need to set it as both TCP and UDP, but this is incorrect.
May be worth adding an exception for port 25565 on your computer's firewall as well.
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to get your ipv4 adress hold the windows key then press "r" after that type in that little box cmd, then a promt window will appear, type "ipconfig" scroll down until you see where it says ipv4, your adress should be right next to it, if u want to not use that for people to join your server use no-ip, I didnt have to configure my no-ip for minecraft so I would suggest to leave it and go on a website by typing server status checker, the top link should be a dinnerbone website, type the ip into that, example "randomservername.ddns.net" if the query gives back a result (only after your server is running as well a duc/no-ip and you pressed edit hosts on the no-ip/duc screen and ticked your server ip that you are using) then everything is running fine, if it doesn't work go into the duc/no-ip website and configure your stuff to be friendly with the system, in the really easy to use website you can choose "minecraft server" and it will fix anything that went wrong (hopefully)