Bryce Croft

I am in desperate need of help. Over the past week, my friends and I have been playing on a voltz server that i am hosting. Just yesterday or the day before, My friends trying to connect through my public IP were receiving the error "connection timed out:connect" so i tried it for myself, I tried to connect through my own public IP (which had worked previously) but received the same error. i could still connect through my LAN IP but nothing else. So, I read on many of the forums previous to this one that I should try to re-port forward my router, and I did; I received the same error. I tried plugging in an Ethernet cable from my router, changed the IP to port forward to, and still received the same error, after much hair pulling out, I have now found a new issue. Without my public IP changing, when I try to connect through the public address, it can no longer find the server. i have tried re-port forwarding, re-checking my ip, everything I know, to no avail. Any more suggestions? Very much appreciated,