Can a Wi-Fi repeater be a problem when hosting a Minecraft server?

Ko
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I set everything correctly in my router with port forwarding etc but any IPs that I give my friends to join result in io.netty.channel.abstractchannel $ annotatedconnectexception

Ma

How do you know that everything is set up correctly?

Which IP addresses do you give? Do they start with 10., 172. Or 192? Then you give the wrong ones

Ko

One with 103. At the beginning… Is that correct?

Ma

Yes should fit. You can check it on wieistmeineip.de.

And how do you know that the port forwarding works?

Ko

Because I don't believe in anything else btw I just noticed that I apparently have 2 different internet IPs google says one The router the other one buddy asked if he can ping me and neither of the two works

Ma

Pinging should definitely work. Two IPs are theoretically possible but unlikely. Look best on the above-mentioned page, the ip is sure to be correct

Ko

Yes the website gives me one of the two IPs but it is not pingable and when I look at portchecker.co it tells me that the port is closed

Ma

Then the port forwarding does not fit or the Windows firewall is still active…

Ko

My antivirus program has taken over the firewall as I understood it oh and I generally mean that all my IPs are not pingable

Ma

Then you should look in the antivirus program, it is very possible that the connection is blocked there.

The device does not have to be pingable in order to function. It is unusual but not unthinkable.

Ko

But I can't "unblock" the server because it can't be found

Ma

You will likely need to create a rule that allows incoming traffic on the port.

Ko

I did

Fl

Problem: probably carrier-grade NAT

If you don't have a dedicated IPv4 address, you can't open any ports.

Solution: Take Ipv6 or the program Ngrok.

Ma

Try to access it from another PC in the same network. Use your internal IP address for this. If it works, your port forwarding doesn't work, if it doesn't work, your computer blocks the incoming connection

Ma

By the way, you don't need to install Minecraft for this, you can test it with Telnet. Here is a guide on how to do that:

https://www.acronis.com/de-de/articles/telnet/