People cant connect to my server

[Loder72]

I just recently created an Attack Of The B-Team server and portfowarded it using verizon, I am the only one out of my friends that can join. If anyone could help me with this that would be wonderful.  

[mindlessdream]

Did you give them your public IP address? 

 

Download uTorrent and change the connection port to 25565.

[Kalbintion]

Make sure you give them your external ip address.

 

@ mindlessdream - why did you recommend them to download uTorrent?

[mindlessdream]

@ mindlessdream - why did you recommend them to download uTorrent?

 

Because my vanilla server won't let people connect if utorrent isn't running with the listening port to 25565, so I assumed it's the same with Attack of the B-Team. Apologies, guess that's not how it works here.

Edited March 29, 2014 by mindlessdream

[Loader]

Ah, lol

 

Ok, what's happened is uTorrent supports something called upnp - it's contacting the router and organizing the port forwarding from the router to your computer on port 25565.  If you set up port forwarding, you won't need to do this.

 

That's genius in a way - I don't think I'd have ever thought of that.

 

 

If you can do it without uTorrent on it's better because you don't have multiple programs listening on the port (uTorrent will receive those minecraft packets too, and will try to interpret them before dropping them, there's a little bit of CPU and network cost related to that).

[islands420]

Wow that's super smart test for port forwarding thanks this will help me with port problem fixes