Connection Issues with a personal server
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Hey all, my brother and I recently created a personal freelancer (modded with discovery 4.85) server so we could play together. The server works fine on LAN, so when we are both in the same house and on the same network everything works fine. However we recently tried to put the server on the internet, so my brother can play when he is at friend’s houses or with his dad, but he is unable to connect to the server. We used the new freelancer global server at gun.fllistserver.com and he can see our server on the list when he is not on the LAN network, but when he tries to connect it says the server is taking too long to respond. I am able to get on just fine (but I am on the same network as the server) so I’m not really sure what the problem is. Could someone please point me in the right direction for some things to try or possible fixes for this issue? If it help the server is an older XP machine, runs fine and all and connects wirelessly to our house WiFi network. Any ideas or pointers? Thanks in advance!
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Have you set up Port Forwarding on your router? If not, you’ll need to go into its setup (usually can just open a web browser and type http://192.168.0.1 or http://192.168.1.1 or http://192.168.1.254 ). Then you can map Freelancer’s port to the server’s local address. Otherwise your router has no clue what to do with an incoming connection on that port, so it does nothing / rejects it.
The first two variations are most common, but my pop’s is the last one -which consequently wasted about an hour of my time figuring out.
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I have ports 2300 to 2304 forwarded. I have an apple airport extreme and it set up is all done in an actually program not by IP address, but those port have to forwarded to my server IP, but my friends still is unable to get on. He can see the server, but not get on, in addition he says teh ping for the server is a group of ? (like ???). Any ideas?