Your friend saying that they've waited 5 minutes after starting to connect and SRB2 is still trying to connect to your server would also be valid. If he then aborts the connection and gets an error, this error doesn't count. This should be written down as: "Never failed or succeeded after 5 minutes of waiting, with no error message shown". Any error shown because the user aborts the connection isn't a real network error, because it's caused by user action rather than SRB2's response to your network.
Can you list it using the list I gave above as a template, so it'd be clear what happens on each of the six tries? Just copy and paste the list, delete my example answers, and go over each item on the list with your friend at the phone, waiting up to 5 minutes on each try. He can abort the connection only after you write down what happened.
Yeah sure, let me give you a small list once we're done:
After a Certain time of him trying to get into my game from my IP it didn't show any error, never failed or succeeded after atleast 2 minutes.
After he typed the incorrect port you gave us his game froze for a solid 5 seconds, before loading again he waited like 4 minutes for that, not error just the same abortion message again.
He Tried again with the correct port, and this appears all the time: "Network System Buffer 64KB" 4 times, this happened within all of those tries by the way and then "contacting to server".
Incorrect port again, same message after aborting after a few minutes.
Now we're trying a different approach of me not hosting on purpose to see if any error pops up, same thing as above and below, nothing out of the ordinary apparently.
Refer to 3. at the last quote "contacting to server" happens when he types the incorrect port and the correct port too with no response whatsoever, don't know if it's of any help but that's all I could type in and find with him together.
Yeah sure, let me give you a small list once we're done:
After a Certain time of him trying to get into my game from my IP it didn't show any error, never failed or succeeded after atleast 2 minutes.
After he typed the incorrect port you gave us his game froze for a solid 5 seconds, before loading again he waited like 4 minutes for that, not error just the same abortion message again.
He Tried again with the correct port, and this appears all the time: "Network System Buffer 64KB" 4 times, this happened within all of those tries by the way and then "contacting to server".
Incorrect port again, same message after aborting after a few minutes.
Now we're trying a different approach of me not hosting on purpose to see if any error pops up, same thing as above and below, nothing out of the ordinary apparently.
Refer to 3. at the last quote "contacting to server" happens when he types the incorrect port and the correct port too with no response whatsoever, don't know if it's of any help but that's all I could type in and find with him together.
I'm sorry but I don't have much to do with this info. It isn't exactly what I requested. It's also very unclear as I can't understand from this what exactly happens on each try, and you didn't do it as I said because it sounds like you tried twice with the correct port while hosting, which isn't something I requested. You're talking again about abortion messages which I said should be ignored because they're meaningless (EDIT: assuming they only pop up after your friend manually aborts the connection, rather than while still waiting for the connection to succeed, which is very unclear as you gave conflicting info about this and vague references), and you're speaking about informational messages in the console about network buffers, which aren't error messages. The console isn't a means to convey error messages only, it's used both for mundane informational messages and error messages, but you seem to think every message there is some kind of error. Regardless, these informational messages are irrelevant and I can't do anything with them.
This is not the proper way to troubleshoot your issues. You said you cannot host. Do you know how many things can cause this? It could be your router, or your network settings, or Windows Firewall, or your antivirus, or your network connection being unreliable, or your friend's network connection being unreliable, or your game not being set up properly. It could be any of these and maybe more that I haven't thought about, or a combination of these things. To troubleshoot this I need to see what happens exactly on every try. You need to copy and paste the list I gave you previously and fill it in exactly with the description of what happens as I exemplified with no unnecessary details. Ans you need to test it in the order I listed. For example:
Hosting unlisted, port 65437: Fails after 2 seconds with the message: "Could not connect to host"
Hosting unlisted, port 5029: Never fails or succeeds after waiting 5 minutes.
Hosting unlisted, port 65437: Fails after 30 seconds with the message: "Resource is unavailable"
Etc.
This is the proper way to diagnose what happens and then figure out what the problem could be caused by. The differences help isolate what the problem could be caused by. Instead you're giving many unnecessary details, with vague descriptions where it's unclear what happens, and don't test it in the order I gave. If you see an identical message to what you saw before, copy and paste it, don't refer me to e.g. "above and below" because that's ambiguous and I can't know from that what exactly happened.
I'm sorry if it sounds harsh, but diagnosing issues like this where there's many potential causes requires patience and careful testing, but you're gleaming over details and skipping steps and unnecessarily complicating things. Just copy and paste my full template from my previous message and fill it in. You don't need to write long descriptions, just whether it fails or "never fails or succeeds" and after how much time (waiting up to 5 minutes on each try) and what error message is shown if it fails. That's all that I need. If you're really impatient you could wait up to 3 minutes on each try. This would cut down the time from 30 minutes at most to 18 minutes at most.
My bad for the really late response I hadn't realized that my message was waiting for approval from the mods due to a link but here, those are the results I got I also set up a static IP properly now. 1747565228 My bad for the really late response I hadn't realized that my message was waiting...
I'm sorry but I don't have much to do with this info. It isn't exactly what I requested. It's also very unclear as I can't understand from this what exactly happens on each try, and you didn't do it as I said because it sounds like you tried twice with the correct port while hosting, which isn't something I requested. You're talking again about abortion messages which I said should be ignored because they're meaningless (EDIT: assuming they only pop up after your friend manually aborts the connection, rather than while still waiting for the connection to succeed, which is very unclear as you gave conflicting info about this and vague references), and you're speaking about informational messages in the console about network buffers, which aren't error messages. The console isn't a means to convey error messages only, it's used both for mundane informational messages and error messages, but you seem to think every message there is some kind of error. Regardless, these informational messages are irrelevant and I can't do anything with them.
This is not the proper way to troubleshoot your issues. You said you cannot host. Do you know how many things can cause this? It could be your router, or your network settings, or Windows Firewall, or your antivirus, or your network connection being unreliable, or your friend's network connection being unreliable, or your game not being set up properly. It could be any of these and maybe more that I haven't thought about, or a combination of these things. To troubleshoot this I need to see what happens exactly on every try. You need to copy and paste the list I gave you previously and fill it in exactly with the description of what happens as I exemplified with no unnecessary details. Ans you need to test it in the order I listed. For example:
Hosting unlisted, port 65437: Fails after 2 seconds with the message: "Could not connect to host"
Hosting unlisted, port 5029: Never fails or succeeds after waiting 5 minutes.
Hosting unlisted, port 65437: Fails after 30 seconds with the message: "Resource is unavailable"
Etc.
This is the proper way to diagnose what happens and then figure out what the problem could be caused by. The differences help isolate what the problem could be caused by. Instead you're giving many unnecessary details, with vague descriptions where it's unclear what happens, and don't test it in the order I gave. If you see an identical message to what you saw before, copy and paste it, don't refer me to e.g. "above and below" because that's ambiguous and I can't know from that what exactly happened.
I'm sorry if it sounds harsh, but diagnosing issues like this where there's many potential causes requires patience and careful testing, but you're gleaming over details and skipping steps and unnecessarily complicating things. Just copy and paste my full template from my previous message and fill it in. You don't need to write long descriptions, just whether it fails or "never fails or succeeds" and after how much time (waiting up to 5 minutes on each try) and what error message is shown if it fails. That's all that I need. If you're really impatient you could wait up to 3 minutes on each try. This would cut down the time from 30 minutes at most to 18 minutes at most.
I know what you're trying to say but we literally can't give you the info you want because no error pop ups what I'm giving is the best I can find with the issues, nothing else I don't know to put it more simple than it already is for you to understand that, my bad for sounding rude by the way. We got no way of sending you the main problem and as I said a few times i've been patient, we both have been for a week almost trying to figure it out slowly i've been researching this issue but nothing pops up, yes I did give him my IPV4, used the incorrect port, waited and no results, I don't know what to do, might be router Issue by I doubt it because it has never happened to me before with LAN, only on this game specifically, now I'll explain something more, the master server not connecting is a separate issue, what you're trying to help me with right now is figuring out how I can play offline via IP/LAN, I wanna figure that out first before I even try to connect into the master server.
We also apologize for complicating things for you, that wasn't our intention at all and we truly do apologize about it, regarding this issue we did what you told us refering to the list (not copying it, before that.) and all the results were they never failed nor succeeded after 5 minutes, they all came up with no messages.
I know what you're trying to say but we literally can't give you the info you want because no error pop ups what I'm giving is the best I can find with the issues, nothing else I don't know to put it more simple than it already is for you to understand that, my bad for sounding rude by the way. We got no way of sending you the main problem and as I said a few times i've been patient, we both have been for a week almost trying to figure it out slowly i've been researching this issue but nothing pops up, yes I did give him my IPV4, used the incorrect port, waited and no results, I don't know what to do, might be router Issue by I doubt it because it has never happened to me before with LAN, only on this game specifically, now I'll explain something more, the master server not connecting is a separate issue, what you're trying to help me with right now is figuring out how I can play offline via IP/LAN, I wanna figure that out first before I even try to connect into the master server.
We also apologize for complicating things for you, that wasn't our intention at all and we truly do apologize about it, regarding this issue we did what you told us refering to the list (not copying it, before that.) and all the results were they never failed nor succeeded after 5 minutes, they all came up with no messages.
I know what you're trying to say but we literally can't give you the info you want because no error pop ups what I'm giving is the best I can find with the issues, nothing else I don't know to put it more simple than it already is for you to understand that, my bad for sounding rude by the way. We got no way of sending you the main problem and as I said a few times i've been patient, we both have been for a week almost trying to figure it out slowly i've been researching this issue but nothing pops up, yes I did give him my IPV4, used the incorrect port, waited and no results, I don't know what to do, might be router Issue by I doubt it because it has never happened to me before with LAN, only on this game specifically, now I'll explain something more, the master server not connecting is a separate issue, what you're trying to help me with right now is figuring out how I can play offline via IP/LAN, I wanna figure that out first before I even try to connect into the master server.
We also apologize for complicating things for you, that wasn't our intention at all and we truly do apologize about it, regarding this issue we did what you told us refering to the list (not copying it, before that.) and all the results were they never failed nor succeeded after 5 minutes, they all came up with no messages.
As I said, coming up with no message after waiting up to 5 minutes is valid, but it needs to be noted down clearly. Saying you tested and didn't see anything out of the ordinary isn't helpful if you're not noting it down part of proper testing with the needed details of what were the conditions when you tested (hosting? not hosting? which port?) and the time taken and any error message that shows up. You're not rude at all, but you're just not paying attention. You said you've had this issue since at least August 2024, that's 9 months ago. I can bet that you've already tried doing trial-and-error in trying to fix this issue, and haven't succeeded. So if you want to understand the issue and figure out the root cause, rather than doing guesswork and changing stuff here and there and praying that the issue would get fixed, you need to diagnose the issue and figure out the root cause. And it's impossible to diagnose if you're missing details and skip steps and don't test it properly. You're not rude but I just don't understand why you're not cooperating when you've had this issue for more than 9 months.
Try disconnecting all other devices (you can be sure by connecting tp the router with a cable, disconnecting all other cables to it except power and Internet access, turning off Wi-Fi in the router, and restarting it), closing all open programs and other browser tabs, and open this:
As I said, coming up with no message after waiting up to 5 minutes is valid, but it needs to be noted down clearly. Saying you tested and didn't see anything out of the ordinary isn't helpful if you're not noting it down part of proper testing with the needed details of what were the conditions when you tested (hosting? not hosting? which port?) and the time taken and any error message that shows up. You're not rude at all, but you're just not paying attention. You said you've had this issue since at least August 2024, that's 9 months ago. I can bet that you've already tried doing trial-and-error in trying to fix this issue, and haven't succeeded. So if you want to understand the issue and figure out the root cause, rather than doing guesswork and changing stuff here and there and praying that the issue would get fixed, you need to diagnose the issue and figure out the root cause. And it's impossible to diagnose if you're missing details and skip steps and don't test it properly. You're not rude but I just don't understand why you're not cooperating when you've had this issue for more than 9 months.
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Can you get your friend to do this^ just like you did? The screenshot you posted was excellent, as an example.
Honestly, I mostly don't understand a little bit about how should I note it down do i need to like for example "attempt 1: used correct port with no error messages appearing no failure and no success trying to connect" or something like that? also here's the results:
Honestly, I mostly don't understand a little bit about how should I note it down do i need to like for example "attempt 1: used correct port with no error messages appearing no failure and no success trying to connect" or something like that? also here's the results:
Also I think it's a problem with me I figured that 20 minutes ago by testing if my port forwarding was succesful apparently HTTP, etc are closed from tests I did online.
Honestly, I mostly don't understand a little bit about how should I note it down do i need to like for example "attempt 1: used correct port with no error messages appearing no failure and no success trying to connect" or something like that? also here's the results:
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Also I think it's a problem with me I figured that 20 minutes ago by testing if my port forwarding was succesful apparently HTTP, etc are closed from tests I did online.
Honestly, I mostly don't understand a little bit about how should I note it down do i need to like for example "attempt 1: used correct port with no error messages appearing no failure and no success trying to connect" or something like that? also here's the results:
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Also I think it's a problem with me I figured that 20 minutes ago by testing if my port forwarding was succesful apparently HTTP, etc are closed from tests I did online.
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I can send you how I did it but it's a very sensitive information, I don't mind though as long as you can figure out what I did wrong there.
Honestly, I mostly don't understand a little bit about how should I note it down do i need to like for example "attempt 1: used correct port with no error messages appearing no failure and no success trying to connect" or something like that? also here's the results:
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Also I think it's a problem with me I figured that 20 minutes ago by testing if my port forwarding was succesful apparently HTTP, etc are closed from tests I did online.
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I can send you how I did it but it's a very sensitive information, I don't mind though as long as you can figure out what I did wrong there.
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I use technicolor so the gui is a little different still don't get how I did it wrong and why everything's closed, maybe the device was wrong, dunno.
do i need to like for example "attempt 1: used correct port with no error messages appearing no failure and no success trying to connect" or something like that?
Oh, OH my god im slow bro im so sorry #24, I didn't look at it properly I thought it was something different, yeah I'm so sorry I understand it now, Let me copy the template and write it down for you, again so sorry, it was my misunderstanding I can be slow sometimes so I apologize for that (too slow lol)
Oh, OH my god im slow bro im so sorry #24, I didn't look at it properly I thought it was something different, yeah I'm so sorry I understand it now, Let me copy the template and write it down for you, again so sorry, it was my misunderstanding I can be slow sometimes so I apologize for that (too slow lol)
1. Hosting unlisted, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (hosting unlisted) no successful connection and no errors
2. Hosting unlisted, port 5029: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 5029 (hosting unlisted) no successful connection and no errors
3. Hosting unlisted, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (hosting unlisted) no successful connection and no errors
4. Not hosting, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (Not hosting) no successful connection and no errors
5. Not hosting, port 5029: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 5029 (Not hosting) no successful connection and no errors
6. Not hosting, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (Not hosting) no successful connection and no errors
My bad it took so long, had some stuff to do, also regarding the port forward issue trying to figure it out still but this is the list, is this good?
Oh, OH my god im slow bro im so sorry #24, I didn't look at it properly I thought it was something different, yeah I'm so sorry I understand it now, Let me copy the template and write it down for you, again so sorry, it was my misunderstanding I can be slow sometimes so I apologize for that (too slow lol)
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Okay here.
1. Hosting unlisted, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (hosting unlisted) no successful connection and no errors
2. Hosting unlisted, port 5029: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 5029 (hosting unlisted) no successful connection and no errors
3. Hosting unlisted, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (hosting unlisted) no successful connection and no errors
4. Not hosting, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (Not hosting) no successful connection and no errors
5. Not hosting, port 5029: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 5029 (Not hosting) no successful connection and no errors
6. Not hosting, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (Not hosting) no successful connection and no errors
My bad it took so long, had some stuff to do, also regarding the port forward issue trying to figure it out still but this is the list, is this good?
Also the issue might be me not being able to port forward, Don't know why it does this I just enabled DMZ on my router settings, now I'm asking my friend to test if it works.
Oh, OH my god im slow bro im so sorry #24, I didn't look at it properly I thought it was something different, yeah I'm so sorry I understand it now, Let me copy the template and write it down for you, again so sorry, it was my misunderstanding I can be slow sometimes so I apologize for that (too slow lol)
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Okay here.
1. Hosting unlisted, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (hosting unlisted) no successful connection and no errors
2. Hosting unlisted, port 5029: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 5029 (hosting unlisted) no successful connection and no errors
3. Hosting unlisted, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (hosting unlisted) no successful connection and no errors
4. Not hosting, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (Not hosting) no successful connection and no errors
5. Not hosting, port 5029: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 5029 (Not hosting) no successful connection and no errors
6. Not hosting, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (Not hosting) no successful connection and no errors
My bad it took so long, had some stuff to do, also regarding the port forward issue trying to figure it out still but this is the list, is this good?
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Also the issue might be me not being able to port forward, Don't know why it does this I just enabled DMZ on my router settings, now I'm asking my friend to test if it works.
Oh, OH my god im slow bro im so sorry #24, I didn't look at it properly I thought it was something different, yeah I'm so sorry I understand it now, Let me copy the template and write it down for you, again so sorry, it was my misunderstanding I can be slow sometimes so I apologize for that (too slow lol)
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Okay here.
1. Hosting unlisted, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (hosting unlisted) no successful connection and no errors
2. Hosting unlisted, port 5029: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 5029 (hosting unlisted) no successful connection and no errors
3. Hosting unlisted, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (hosting unlisted) no successful connection and no errors
4. Not hosting, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (Not hosting) no successful connection and no errors
5. Not hosting, port 5029: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 5029 (Not hosting) no successful connection and no errors
6. Not hosting, port 65437: After 5 minutes of connecting to port 65437 (Not hosting) no successful connection and no errors
My bad it took so long, had some stuff to do, also regarding the port forward issue trying to figure it out still but this is the list, is this good?
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Also the issue might be me not being able to port forward, Don't know why it does this I just enabled DMZ on my router settings, now I'm asking my friend to test if it works.
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I checked if it works on some website but it still says port 5029 is closed. gonna still try though and if it still doesn't work this is an issue.
DMZ is more dangerous than port forwarding. It can solve your issue but it's dangerous. It could expose your computer to worms like WannaCry. You'd rather forward a single port instead.
DMZ makes the router forward all ports on the router directly to any device you choose on the network. If someone connects to port 23 on the router, they're forwarded to port 23 on the device, etc.
Btw, you should always test that with the server hosting, otherwise it's pointless. Even if the port is open, it wouldn't seem open if there's no server listening at your end for the incoming connection.
You forwarded both TCP and UDP, which is unnecessary. SRB2, SRB2Kart, and DRRR only use UDP. Also the source and potentially also the destination is wrong. The source should be set to any IP address, and the destination to your computer's IP address. Ideally, you should give your computer a static DHCP lease if you can set that up in the router, otherwise you should manually give it a static address in the computer that doesn't overlap with the DHCP pool. (DHCP is used to automatically get IP addresses from the router. These addresses can change unless you set the router to always give the same address to your computer, and reserve the address for it, which is a static DHCP lease. Alternatively you could figure the range of addresses that DHCP uses and give your computer an address beyond this range to avoid future IP address conflicts in your home, this is the latter option I mentioned.)
Yes it seems fine, I suspect you might not have forwarded the port correctly in the router.
DMZ is more dangerous than port forwarding. It can solve your issue but it's dangerous. It could expose your computer to worms like WannaCry. You'd rather forward a single port instead.
DMZ makes the router forward all ports on the router directly to any device you choose on the network. If someone connects to port 23 on the router, they're forwarded to port 23 on the device, etc.
Btw, you should always test that with the server hosting, otherwise it's pointless. Even if the port is open, it wouldn't seem open if there's no server listening at your end for the incoming connection.
You forwarded both TCP and UDP, which is unnecessary. SRB2, SRB2Kart, and DRRR only use UDP. Also the source and potentially also the destination is wrong. The source should be set to any IP address, and the destination to your computer's IP address. Ideally, you should give your computer a static DHCP lease if you can set that up in the router, otherwise you should manually give it a static address in the computer that doesn't overlap with the DHCP pool. (DHCP is used to automatically get IP addresses from the router. These addresses can change unless you set the router to always give the same address to your computer, and reserve the address for it, which is a static DHCP lease. Alternatively you could figure the range of addresses that DHCP uses and give your computer an address beyond this range to avoid future IP address conflicts in your home, this is the latter option I mentioned.)
oh can i use my own ip address? like my actual one and then use my pc's ip as the destination ofc (it's the ip i showed you) and i did set up a static ip like 2 days ago from my windows if that counts as good enough, thanks alot btw and ill set it to UDP
oh can i use my own ip address? like my actual one and then use my pc's ip as the destination ofc (it's the ip i showed you) and i did set up a static ip like 2 days ago from my windows if that counts as good enough, thanks alot btw and ill set it to UDP
oh can i use my own ip address? like my actual one and then use my pc's ip as the destination ofc (it's the ip i showed you) and i did set up a static ip like 2 days ago from my windows if that counts as good enough, thanks alot btw and ill set it to UDP
Also about the master server thing I'll see if it works once I host cus remember when I said it showed up the error with the curl hostname couldn't be found stuff maybe it'll change when I do it properly
oh can i use my own ip address? like my actual one and then use my pc's ip as the destination ofc (it's the ip i showed you) and i did set up a static ip like 2 days ago from my windows if that counts as good enough, thanks alot btw and ill set it to UDP
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I'll remove UDP/TCP
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Also about the master server thing I'll see if it works once I host cus remember when I said it showed up the error with the curl hostname couldn't be found stuff maybe it'll change when I do it properly
oh can i use my own ip address? like my actual one and then use my pc's ip as the destination ofc (it's the ip i showed you) and i did set up a static ip like 2 days ago from my windows if that counts as good enough, thanks alot btw and ill set it to UDP
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I'll remove UDP/TCP
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Also about the master server thing I'll see if it works once I host cus remember when I said it showed up the error with the curl hostname couldn't be found stuff maybe it'll change when I do it properly
oh can i use my own ip address? like my actual one and then use my pc's ip as the destination ofc (it's the ip i showed you) and i did set up a static ip like 2 days ago from my windows if that counts as good enough, thanks alot btw and ill set it to UDP
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I'll remove UDP/TCP
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Also about the master server thing I'll see if it works once I host cus remember when I said it showed up the error with the curl hostname couldn't be found stuff maybe it'll change when I do it properly
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So that's probably the issue, thanks.
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nvm my own ip address doesn't work, idk what to set it as
You don't need to forward ports if you're connecting entirely within your LAN. It's only needed for someone outside, e.g. a friend at a different home.
Static IP can always be set, but you'd want to set it outside of the DHCP range if you don't wanna wake up one day and discover that both your computer and another device on the network have no network connection. The DHCP settings in your router might say what the range it uses is, or the minimum and maximum addresses.
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The downside of setting a static IP address is that you
Have to check it doesn't overlap with the DHCP range, to prevent the issue I mentioned before, and
Have to make sure that every device you set a static address for has a unique static address that you haven't given to another device already.
Static DHCP reservation has none of these issues, and even if you reset the network configuration in your computer or "forget" the network, it should still stick because you set this at the router rather than in the computer.
You don't need to forward ports if you're connecting entirely within your LAN. It's only needed for someone outside, e.g. a friend at a different home.
It's a feature that your router may or may not have, you'll have to look at the DHCP settings, if it even has those.
Static IP can always be set, but you'd want to set it outside of the DHCP range if you don't wanna wake up one day and discover that both your computer and another device on the network have no network connection. The DHCP settings in your router might say what the range it uses is, or the minimum and maximum addresses.
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The downside of setting a static IP address is that you
Have to check it doesn't overlap with the DHCP range, to prevent the issue I mentioned before, and
Have to make sure that every device you set a static address for has a unique static address that you haven't given to another device already.
Static DHCP reservation has none of these issues, and even if you reset the network configuration in your computer or "forget" the network, it should still stick because you set this at the router rather than in the computer.
Well my friend is from a different continent which is why I need to set it on a different IP probably, what would you recommend, do I need to use his IPV4 or something or what IP do I need to put at the source? and I don't think I have Static DHCP , my Maximum range is 0 to 254, my default is set on 100, setting the second one to 101 if it does anything.
I also don't know how to check if my static IP doesn't overlap with the DHCP's range and I luckily only want/need it for my pc that's all, I don't think any of my devices except my PC which i setup by myself has a static.
Could you explain to me how do I use check if it doesn't overlap with my DHCP's range to make sure?
Also Sorry for so many questions I just wanna get this done with asap, I've been searching like crazy lol also again tysm for dedicating some of your time to help me, I truly appreciate it bro.
Well my friend is from a different continent which is why I need to set it on a different IP probably, what would you recommend, do I need to use his IPV4 or something or what IP do I need to put at the source?
I said, you should set the source to any, clear the field if possible, so it wouldn't be limited. His IP address could easily change every few hours or days, you'll have to change it every time again, and it wouldn't work if you'd want another friend to join too.
I also don't know how to check if my static IP doesn't overlap with the DHCP's range and I luckily only want/need it for my pc that's all, I don't think any of my devices except my PC which i setup by myself has a static.
This is either listed explicitly in the DHCP settings of your router, or you could do some guesswork and understand it. Obviously the former is more reliable.
If you give your computer within the computer's network adapter settings a static address that you know should be outside the DHCP range, you should be fine. It's at the same place where you can set a custom DNS server.
The settings at the top is for the DHCP range, and the bottom is for static DHCP reservations. This is exactly what you need. Do NOT set the range so small, what you set in the pic allows only two devices at most to use the network at any time without setting static IP addresses on them manually. Set the range to something like 192.168.1.100 start, 192.168.1.199 end. The lease time is fine at 8h.
Click the button to add a new static lease, leave the hostname field clear, type in your computer's "physical address" (a.k.a. MAC address), and set the IP address to something outside the range, for example 192.168.1.99 or 192.168.1.200. If it doesn't work, then try something within the range, for example 192.168.1.199.
I said, you should set the source to any, clear the field if possible, so it wouldn't be limited. His IP address could easily change every few hours or days, you'll have to change it every time again, and it wouldn't work if you'd want another friend to join too.
This sounds like the entire range of your network, but it's possible the DHCP range covers all of it.
I can only guess where you see these numbers, unless you'd show a screenshot maybe.
This is either listed explicitly in the DHCP settings of your router, or you could do some guesswork and understand it. Obviously the former is more reliable.
If you give your computer within the computer's network adapter settings a static address that you know should be outside the DHCP range, you should be fine. It's at the same place where you can set a custom DNS server.
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The settings at the top is for the DHCP range, and the bottom is for static DHCP reservations. This is exactly what you need. Do NOT set the range so small, what you set in the pic allows only two devices at most to use the network at any time without setting static IP addresses on them manually. Set the range to something like 192.168.1.100 start, 192.168.1.199 end. The lease time is fine at 8h.
Click the button to add a new static lease, leave the hostname field clear, type in your computer's "physical address" (a.k.a. MAC address), and set the IP address to something outside the range, for example 192.168.1.99 or 192.168.1.200. If it doesn't work, then try something within the range, for example 192.168.1.199.
Do not change the settings here. Leave the DHCP server enabled.
Sadly I have to fill up the empty bars, not possible to not leave them empty so here's what I did for the DHCP.
About changing the IP address at the port forward section I gotta think and ponder about what to put there, perhaps I could search online for static ip addresses or something or I'm just spitting nonesense at this point.
Tweaked it a little like you said except for the Source IP which I will ponder about.
Sadly I have to fill up the empty bars, not possible to not leave them empty so here's what I did for the DHCP.
About changing the IP address at the port forward section I gotta think and ponder about what to put there, perhaps I could search online for static ip addresses or something or I'm just spitting nonesense at this point.
Tweaked it a little like you said except for the Source IP which I will ponder about.
About changing the IP address at the port forward section I gotta think and ponder about what to put there, perhaps I could search online for static ip addresses or something or I'm just spitting nonesense at this point.
Tweaked it a little like you said except for the Source IP which I will ponder about.
Why are you thinking about it too much? The source IP address doesn't matter much. If you set it, you'll have to constantly change it over and over. Maybe at least for the time being leave it clear to see if hosting a server works without it, and then look for ways to change, and if you change and it breaks, you'll know what to change back to.
Are you sure "MSI" is the hostname of your computer? It won't work otherwise.
Why are you thinking about it too much? The source IP address doesn't matter much. If you set it, you'll have to constantly change it over and over. Maybe at least for the time being leave it clear to see if hosting a server works without it, and then look for ways to change, and if you change and it breaks, you'll know what to change back to.
Hm that's the name of my PC, does my host name have to be the windows account login name? if not how do I find my host name?
Also for the source IP I sadly can't leave it blank as I stated before, it won't let me. I'll leave it at what I put it as honestly, see if it works if not I'll let you know.
The hostname is the name of your entire computer, it uses it to identify itself on the local network. You can find the current hostname and change it by pressing Windows+Pause on the keyboard (look for an entry saying "computer name" or something, and there should be a button nearby to edit if you want). The account login name is your username on the computer; each computer can have multiple users.
Also for the source IP I sadly can't leave it blank as I stated before, it won't let me. I'll leave it at what I put it as honestly, see if it works if not I'll let you know.
The hostname is the name of your entire computer, it uses it to identify itself on the local network. You can find the current hostname and change it by pressing Windows+Pause on the keyboard (look for an entry saying "computer name" or something, and there should be a button nearby to edit if you want). The account login name is your username on the computer; each computer can have multiple users.
Are you sure you can't leave the source IP field blank? I found an article with screenshots that look very similar to your router saying the source IP field is optional:
Are you sure you can't leave the source IP field blank? I found an article with screenshots that look very similar to your router saying the source IP field is optional:
Oh, I did try it before and it didn't work, now it just worked for the first time probably because of something I did there, thanks! is that all I needed to do now? do I need to test if I can host a public server?
Are you sure you can't leave the source IP field blank? I found an article with screenshots that look very similar to your router saying the source IP field is optional:
Oh, I did try it before and it didn't work, now it just worked for the first time probably because of something I did there, thanks! is that all I needed to do now? do I need to test if I can host a public server?
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