Hi,
Lets start our with my setup and some background, I'm on CenturyLink and I had an internet speed of 7/0.8MBps and I NEEDED to upgrade my speeds. In order to get faster speeds, CenturyLink came to my house and installed a second DSL line, which required a special modem / router combo to combine the two lines speeds, so now I have 20/2MBps speeds which is amazing! That's the background, but here's my problem.
I host a small private Minecraft server for my friends and I. On my old ASUS router, port 25565 was forwarded and the server ran just fine. When I got the ActionTec C1900C router/modem, I set it up then logged in and port forwarded port 25565. This new router has an IPv4 firewall so I also added exceptions in it for port 25565.
But, after acquiring my public IP and loading up Minecraft, my server is not pinging. I tried it on the Server computer itself and localhost pings but not the public IP. So the server works in my LAN but not via my public address.
So I went and downloaded the open-port testing software from https://portforward.com/, and it said my port is open...which makes no sense because not only does my Minecraft server not work, but any other software I tried doesn't work as well on that port or any other ports - AT ALL.
Here's what I have already done which hasn't worked:
- I reset my servers firewall
- I reset my routers firewall
- I tried another port
- I tried other programs, servers, and software on different ports and port 25565
- I Called CenturyLink (they suggested the full restore)
- I tried forwarding port 80 and setting the MC server to it and it started to ping but then said Cannot Connect
- Checked Router firmware, it's up to date
I have a few theories, one is that the Dual DSL lines might be conflicting with the port forwarding, another is that I just might have setup the router and portforwarding wrong. Lastly, I might just have been given a messed up router.
Here's some things I'm going to try:
- Doing a full router restore
- If that doesn't work, CenturyLink will get me a different router...hopefully though, knowing CenturyLink (LOL)
Anyways, I'm stumped and I need help soon!
Thanks in advance for the help, you guys here are great!
- bhogervorst
Lets start our with my setup and some background, I'm on CenturyLink and I had an internet speed of 7/0.8MBps and I NEEDED to upgrade my speeds. In order to get faster speeds, CenturyLink came to my house and installed a second DSL line, which required a special modem / router combo to combine the two lines speeds, so now I have 20/2MBps speeds which is amazing! That's the background, but here's my problem.
I host a small private Minecraft server for my friends and I. On my old ASUS router, port 25565 was forwarded and the server ran just fine. When I got the ActionTec C1900C router/modem, I set it up then logged in and port forwarded port 25565. This new router has an IPv4 firewall so I also added exceptions in it for port 25565.
But, after acquiring my public IP and loading up Minecraft, my server is not pinging. I tried it on the Server computer itself and localhost pings but not the public IP. So the server works in my LAN but not via my public address.
So I went and downloaded the open-port testing software from https://portforward.com/, and it said my port is open...which makes no sense because not only does my Minecraft server not work, but any other software I tried doesn't work as well on that port or any other ports - AT ALL.
Here's what I have already done which hasn't worked:
- I reset my servers firewall
- I reset my routers firewall
- I tried another port
- I tried other programs, servers, and software on different ports and port 25565
- I Called CenturyLink (they suggested the full restore)
- I tried forwarding port 80 and setting the MC server to it and it started to ping but then said Cannot Connect
- Checked Router firmware, it's up to date
I have a few theories, one is that the Dual DSL lines might be conflicting with the port forwarding, another is that I just might have setup the router and portforwarding wrong. Lastly, I might just have been given a messed up router.
Here's some things I'm going to try:
- Doing a full router restore
- If that doesn't work, CenturyLink will get me a different router...hopefully though, knowing CenturyLink (LOL)
Anyways, I'm stumped and I need help soon!
Thanks in advance for the help, you guys here are great!
- bhogervorst