Basically with really any game that forces P2P connection my friend cannot join me. to keep this relevant i setup a server on my router and my friend cannot connect to it. we use the same type of router so i do not think it is a bad internet issue mostly because he is able to join other minecraft servers just fine. just never mine.
when he attempts to connect it says he timed out. but whenever we do establish a connection we can play for hours with minimal lag. Like a 24 inch thick rope that wouldnt tear but the hook on the end of the rope struggles to grab on. I guess.
EDIT: forgot to mention. portforwarding is working perfectly fine. my other friends are able to join the server.
my port forward is done correct. and my friends have been able to join. just not this one. he has wow. i have wow. one of my friends that can join has wow. same router and everything
So it's just this one friend that can't join? Unless you have him blocked on your firewall, that eliminates any problems on your end. He's doing something wrong. Wrong port, wrong address, something misspelled, something.
i dont think its any of that. essentially, minecraft makes it slightly easier to tell whats happening since i can see it on my servers console but i can see that he makes it into the server. then he eventually times out. so its not connecting to the wrong thing. And there are rare occasions where he is lucky and the connection happens and we are able to play for hours on end as long as he doesnt leave.
so the way i look at it is, any Peer to Peer connection we ever try has strangely bad connection. so if we for instance try to play things like Kindom Two Crowns or Ark Survival where i host a world. he struggles to connect. and since my minecraft server is ran from my computer/router its practically the same things as Peer to Peer.
its just the weirdest thing we cannot figure out. he can connect to standard minecraft servers and not lag but when it comes to connecting to each other there is a struggle. we even both turned off our router + computer firewalls and no dice. we just cannot find a plausible reason for it.
one thing i can say is we traded public IP addresses and attempted to ping eachother with cmd and we both were unable to send packets. ive never tried pinging anyone else so maybe thats just normal but both of us cant get packets to each other. but can get packets to for instance a minecraft server we both pinged just fine.
if he can't join and others can, and he can't ping your ip, then its an issue on his end, not yours
we have tried pinging each other via cmd prompt and we indeed cannot send packets/ping each other. but we can both, for instance, ping a mc server that we play on.
so how do we fix the issue of not being able to ping each other?
Basically with really any game that forces P2P connection my friend cannot join me. to keep this relevant i setup a server on my router and my friend cannot connect to it. we use the same type of router so i do not think it is a bad internet issue mostly because he is able to join other minecraft servers just fine. just never mine.
when he attempts to connect it says he timed out. but whenever we do establish a connection we can play for hours with minimal lag. Like a 24 inch thick rope that wouldnt tear but the hook on the end of the rope struggles to grab on. I guess.
EDIT: forgot to mention. portforwarding is working perfectly fine. my other friends are able to join the server.
Post results from speedtest.net.
We both have 36 ping. my download and upload speed is faster then his but i dont know if that matters.
when my server shows up on his list it averages 44 ping
Upload and download speed matter more, post the entire results.
ping 22
download 32.49
upload 5.01
^^^^^ my friends
we are connected to the same server on speedtest.net
vvvv my result
ping 23
download 106.56
upload 10.38
Got any firewalls or antivirus?
Did you assign your server a static IP on your home network, and did you forward port 25565 through the router to that IP?
i have standard firewall. but every other one of my friends can join. just not this one specifically.
my port forward is done correct. and my friends have been able to join. just not this one. he has wow. i have wow. one of my friends that can join has wow. same router and everything
So it's just this one friend that can't join? Unless you have him blocked on your firewall, that eliminates any problems on your end. He's doing something wrong. Wrong port, wrong address, something misspelled, something.
i dont think its any of that. essentially, minecraft makes it slightly easier to tell whats happening since i can see it on my servers console but i can see that he makes it into the server. then he eventually times out. so its not connecting to the wrong thing. And there are rare occasions where he is lucky and the connection happens and we are able to play for hours on end as long as he doesnt leave.
so the way i look at it is, any Peer to Peer connection we ever try has strangely bad connection. so if we for instance try to play things like Kindom Two Crowns or Ark Survival where i host a world. he struggles to connect. and since my minecraft server is ran from my computer/router its practically the same things as Peer to Peer.
its just the weirdest thing we cannot figure out. he can connect to standard minecraft servers and not lag but when it comes to connecting to each other there is a struggle. we even both turned off our router + computer firewalls and no dice. we just cannot find a plausible reason for it.
one thing i can say is we traded public IP addresses and attempted to ping eachother with cmd and we both were unable to send packets. ive never tried pinging anyone else so maybe thats just normal but both of us cant get packets to each other. but can get packets to for instance a minecraft server we both pinged just fine.
Its an enigma :\
we have tried pinging each other via cmd prompt and we indeed cannot send packets/ping each other. but we can both, for instance, ping a mc server that we play on.
so how do we fix the issue of not being able to ping each other?