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Trouble port forwarding w/ router and cable model
I'm attempting to port forward so that computers on other networks can access my Minecraft server - I've gone through the guides and I believe I've followed all the steps correctly for port forwardin...
sam-sepiol wrote:
I'm attempting to port forward so that computers on other networks can access my Minecraft server
If you haven't tried it already, you find find a few useful tips here:
Search - NETGEAR Communities – Minecraft server
I have a cable and an ethernet plug coming out of my wall - the ethernet goes into the router, and the cable goes into the modem.
I don't know what the "ethernet plug coming out of my wall" connects to. The usual string of device is:
- connection to Internet service provide (outside workd)
- modem (CM500)
- router (R6120)
- your network
The usual default access to the router is through 192.168.1.1
By the way, don't expect much of the R6120. It is one of Netgear's bottom-of-the-range routers. According to Netgear's manual for this device, not always the most reliable source of information, the LAN and WAN ports support only 10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX. That makes it slower than many newer internet services and most modern network hardware, including your modem.
This may not matter to you, but be warned that it will hobble you if you ever sign up for faster Internet, anything faster than 100 Mbps is a waste of your money.
It also slows down whatever is going on in your local network. Newer devices support at least 1000BASE-TX.
Thanks for the advice about my router, I know it's cheap (I'm a grad student lol). I checked through that search list you linked and didn't see anyone else with my specific problem. I've gone into the router settings at www.routerlogin.net, added a static IP address to the computer running the server (192.168.1.14), added the port forwarding service for 25565 TCP/UDP on my router, and allowed the traffic through my computer's firewall, but external traffic still seems to be blocked. Interestingly enough, the IP displayed in ADVANCED > Internet Port > IP Address is the same as my external IP, so I don't think my modem is acting as a second router here, despite the fact that it seems to be blocking service in the same way a second router that wasn't port forwarded would.
To be clear, 192.168.100.1 isn't the address for my router, but for my modem. Is there anything I might have looked over?
sam-sepiol wrote:
To be clear, 192.168.100.1 isn't the address for my router, but for my modem.
I know. In this context it is a red herring.
The fact that you mentioned it suggested to me that you didn't really understanding what was going on.
Is there anything I might have looked over?
Who knows? You didn't respond to my questions about the layout of you network.
For example, I said:
"I don't know what the "ethernet plug coming out of my wall" connects to."
What is it? What does it connect to?
Hi - let me be completely transparent. I have no idea what's going on. That's why I'm here soliciting help.
The way you mentioned the ethernet cable coming out of the wall wasn't phrased as a question so I didn't interpret it as one - my apologies. I have a standard (from what I can see) ethernet cable coming out of the wall from the same location as what I think is the coax cable - the former is plugged into my R6120 router and the latter is plugged into my CM500 modem. Is there any other information you need?
sam-sepiol wrote:
The way you mentioned the ethernet cable coming out of the wall wasn't phrased as a question so I didn't interpret it as one
The reason for wanting to know more is that some people turn up asking for help with problems related to networks where a whole bunch of people, in apartments say, get their Internet from a central source. They then get an ethernet socket that they can plug into without needing modems and routers.
A more usual way to get an Internet connection is with a telephone wire or a coaxial wire engine in a wall socket that looks nothing like an Ethernet socket.
That you have two sockets is puzzling. Could the Ethernet cable be the one that goes from the router into the wall to go to the rest if the property?
Is there a connection from the modem to the router?
If so, then the Ethernet wall socket probably just connects everything else back to the router and modem.