I realize there are already a lot of threads with people saying that no one can connect to their servers and it's because they haven't port forwarded correctly. But, here's my situation:
I live in an apartment complex where we don't have routers in our rooms; We just have ethernet access in the wall, and that gets us online. Just plugging the network cable in lets us connect, so I assume the whole building's network is hooked up to a router somewhere, but I don't have access to it.
That being the situation, is there any way to host a minecraft server currently? If not, do you think there eventually will be?
My only problem is that other people can't connect. Everything else runs fine.
I haven't had any problems connecting/hosting anything in the past, but I realize that this might be a different situation.
Thanks.
EDIT: Looked harder, the router is a Netgear WGR614v8. Unfortunately I still don't have access to the password, etc, so I still have the same problem.
Well in your case, try looking at VPN solutions. The one that pops to mind is Hamachi, or Comodo Easy VPN. a quick google search also added tinc to the list. how and what I dont know, if it works, i dont know. just try, experiment and let us know :smile.gif:
You need another network to log into to do that. I'll explain what it does.
You are in network A, and own network B. You wish to receive connections.
Router A ignores incoming connections. So you connect to router B, which now pretends you are in network B. You then forward the port. When an incoming connection comes in, this happens:
It connects to router B.
Router B routes it to the fake you on network B.
The fake you of course, is actually on network A, so router B sends the stuff back though the connection you opened earlier though router A, which already knows the communication between you and router B.
Then you get the stuff, and then you can send stuff back.
This obviously will not be fast.
I would recommend seeing if unpn is active, and if so, using it to port forward.
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I live in an apartment complex where we don't have routers in our rooms; We just have ethernet access in the wall, and that gets us online. Just plugging the network cable in lets us connect, so I assume the whole building's network is hooked up to a router somewhere, but I don't have access to it.
That being the situation, is there any way to host a minecraft server currently? If not, do you think there eventually will be?
My only problem is that other people can't connect. Everything else runs fine.
I haven't had any problems connecting/hosting anything in the past, but I realize that this might be a different situation.
Thanks.
EDIT: Looked harder, the router is a Netgear WGR614v8. Unfortunately I still don't have access to the password, etc, so I still have the same problem.
You need another network to log into to do that. I'll explain what it does.
You are in network A, and own network B. You wish to receive connections.
Router A ignores incoming connections. So you connect to router B, which now pretends you are in network B. You then forward the port. When an incoming connection comes in, this happens:
It connects to router B.
Router B routes it to the fake you on network B.
The fake you of course, is actually on network A, so router B sends the stuff back though the connection you opened earlier though router A, which already knows the communication between you and router B.
Then you get the stuff, and then you can send stuff back.
This obviously will not be fast.
I would recommend seeing if unpn is active, and if so, using it to port forward.
Quality of output = Skill * Effort
That was a good idea, but unfortunately it's disabled :sad.gif: