Question Can't portforward on Minecraft

[wflynn1]

I'm trying to port forward on my router to make my Minecraft server public but it won't work at all. I have done absolutely everything, disabled firewall, made sure info was correct etc. I have watched dozens and dozens of videos on it and in the videos everyone's router seems to have a lot more options than mine. I have the Huawei F2000 router https://portforward.com/huawei/f2000/ I have done all the steps putting ports as 25565 but that is the only thing I am able to do. I have a static IP address and I made sure I'm using the correct mac address, disabled my firewall, added port access through windows firewall. Tried everything and it won't work but it seems to work on everyone else's YouTube videos. The annoying thing is that I've port forwarded many times before and I simply can't do it anymore. I have the exact same PC and router as last time it worked.

 

[kanewolf]

I'm trying to port forward on my router to make my Minecraft server public but it won't work at all. I have done absolutely everything, disabled firewall, made sure info was correct etc. I have watched dozens and dozens of videos on it and in the videos everyone's router seems to have a lot more options than mine. I have the Huawei F2000 router https://portforward.com/huawei/f2000/ I have done all the steps putting ports as 25565 but that is the only thing I am able to do. I have a static IP address and I made sure I'm using the correct mac address, disabled my firewall, added port access through windows firewall. Tried everything and it won't work but it seems to work on everyone else's YouTube videos. The annoying thing is that I've port forwarded many times before and I simply can't do it anymore. I have the exact same PC and router as last time it worked.

The WAN address on your router matches the IP displayed by whatsmyip page ?

 

[wflynn1]

The WAN address on your router matches the IP displayed by whatsmyip page ?

The WAN address on your router matches the IP displayed by whatsmyip page ?

Yes

 

[kanewolf]

If the WAN address matches whatsmyip then you should be able to port forward. Do you have the game server running when you are checking the ports?
Have you verified that you can access the server via the LAN ?

 

[wflynn1]

Yes I can access the server on lan typing in localhost or 192.168.1.5 but not with the external private IP

 

[kanewolf]

Yes I can access the server on lan typing in localhost or 192.168.1.5 but not with the external private IP

Then you would have to post a screen capture of your port forwarding page. There is nothing you have said that should prevent it.