Hello everyone I've been trying to create a server for a small test I want to do with some friends, from what I've read I most enable port forwarding to port 5080, however my ISP has blocked access to my router and as such I can't enable the port, is there any other way I could do this, like using an already opened port, and if so, how could I do this? I appreciate your thoughts on this matter.
You can configure ports in the server (change 5080 to something else, it's in the options in the menu bar) but it seems your ISP really won't allow you to listen to any port. You need to be able to listen to a port, i.e. be able to accept all connections to this port, not just a two-way communication with somebody else because the port you use for that communication won't allow you to accept all incoming connections on it. So, if you can open ports on your ISP for your machine, then just change the server to use that port. If the port is 1234 or less, you'll probably need to run the server in admin mode as well.
Thanks for the reply, I'll see what ports I have available for listening and I'll try using one of those. Edit: Hello agian, I've contacted my ISP and I've opened the 5080 port and I've tested it with http://canyouseeme.org/, however when trying to connect to the server from an external PC I still get the could not connect notification, neither via the registry or the advance connection with IpAddress:5080, any idea what could be going on?
I don't know what is your situation with your ISP exactly. It may be opened for your IP, but then your router or modem or whatever has to forward those requests to your computer exactly (because you can connect several computers on your router, right?) So you need to specify it in your router settings or whatever, give the IP of your computer on the local network (something like 192.168.0.XX).
Thank you for your time, I've managed to fix the issue by calling them and having them open the port on the router from their side (due to my client side only managing the modem that connected to an external router), and managed to have a friend connect using the registry