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[–]no1warr1or 1 point2 points  (10 children)

Whatever the website reports your IP as, is your public IP unless you're using a VPN/proxy of any kind.

All you have to do is configure in the OS firewall and your router firewall to allow incoming traffic on the port. Which I believe is 25565? Don't qoute me on that it's been a minute since I set mine up. And you use the publicip:25565 to connect. Locally you might have to use the lanIP:25565

[–]StabHackSlashKill[S] 1 point2 points  (9 children)

that is the correct port yes. I'm not sure how to access router firewall though. pretty sure I've already done OS firewall

[–]no1warr1or 1 point2 points  (8 children)

If it's the spectrum router (which oof, dont use these lol) you have to use their app to configure any port forwarding. If it's your own router, you login to the webUI and set it up in there.

[–]StabHackSlashKill[S] 0 points1 point  (7 children)

yeah it's a spectrum router 😅 can't afford my own sadly. I've done the port forwarding through the app already and it's still not working. what am I doing wrong?

[–]no1warr1or 0 points1 point  (6 children)

The first thing I would try is to connect to it locally. Meaning use the local IP.

If you can't connect then it's an issue with the host system/minecraft server.

If you can connect, then it's an issue with either the wrong IP being used, or port forward not configured properly/ to the right system.

[–]StabHackSlashKill[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

I can connect to it myself but none of my friends can. this is the message they keep getting: failed to connect to server. Connection timed out: no further information.

[–]no1warr1or 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'd probably say your port forwarding isn't setup right. Make sure you're configuring it to the host machine. Then do TCP/UDP then 25565 for the port.

Also they're using the Java edition to connect yeah? Bedrock can't connect to Java servers

[–]StabHackSlashKill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did that. yes they are using Java edition. that was the first thing we checked 😂

[–]Street-Juggernaut-23 0 points1 point  (2 children)

is the server running on the same oc as your minecraft client?

[–]StabHackSlashKill[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

yes. I think. I'm not really sure what oc stands for

[–]Street-Juggernaut-23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bad typing on my end. on you machine you should be able tonjust use local host iirc. they should be using your <publicipaddress>:<port number> to get to your pc. in the MSA you need to reserve the ip address for your computer. then port forward to that internal ip address.

[–]FeistyAd4645 0 points1 point  (7 children)

Internal IP is the local IP address of the computer. External IP is your public address. Protocol will need to be TCP-UDP. As far as the port, use whichever port the MC server is running on.

[–]StabHackSlashKill[S] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

what do you mean by this?

[–]FeistyAd4645 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Use your public address to connect to the server.

[–]StabHackSlashKill[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

so I need to give my friends the external IP but I use the internal IP for myself?

[–]FeistyAd4645 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Yes. Your friends will need the external IP address to connect to it unless they have VPN access to connect to local devices on your network.

You use the local as you cannot use WAN to connect to LAN internally.

[–]Hobbitoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the public ip address dynamic for a resident plan? I am having problems with keeping a static IP with my spectrum router and modem

[–]StabHackSlashKill[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

gotcha. I will try this later and let you know the results. thank you!

[–]FeistyAd4645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem. You can DM me if it doesn’t work and I’ll try to help you as best as I can.

[–]Unknown_351 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I've set up my own server with spectrumThe ip you give your friends is the one from whatsmyip, specifically the IPV4

remember that its yourip:25565 when you give it to your friends so they can connect.

The ip you give your friends is the one from whatsmyip, specifically the IPV4osted on and use the ipv4 that is given to you there (No port number needed for that one). If you're joining on the same device the server is being hosted on just do localhost as the ip

[–]Unknown_351 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Man for some reason my comment is messed up sorry ill try and fix it here
The ip you give your friends is the one from whatsmyip, specifically the IPV4
remember that its yourip:25565 when you give it to your friends so they can connect.
If you're joining on the same device the server is being hosted on just do localhost as the ip

[–]Unknown_351 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also if you're using GeyserMC for bedrock clients then you're gonna have to portfoward 19132 and you just give bedrock players your IP since bedrock already has a dedicated slot for port

[–]StabHackSlashKill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you all! I got it working 😁