Turn off the firewall for a minute and check to see if the port is open then. If it works, turn the firewall back on and then you need to allow inbound connections to your PC. If it doesn't work... I'll need to do some more thinking.
Well your local IP doesn't go through your router, so technically all ports will be open. It is your router which blocks the ports, so ports will only be open/closed when connecting via your external or WAN IP address.
Did you check to see if your firewall is allowing/blocking external connections?
For the LAN IP address, (most of the time) it should start with 192.168.*.*
To get the IP to put in the LAN IP place on your router you must go into the start menu, type cmd in the search bar and press enter (Windows 7). If you have Windows XP, click run and then type cmd.
When you are in the command prompt, type ipconfig. Look for your local IP.
Sometimes it can start with 10.*.*.* but this is somewhat rare for home computers.
i cannot ping (access) this public ip 173.x.x.x how is this configured? this address will need to be accessible for your server to work... first step is to get some results from this ip, other than a timeout.
also as Majh points out, the router should be configured to your LAN IP, which would be something like 192.x.x.x
I installed a port checker, but it only checks my ipv4. here is the result and another port checker says
On your port forwarding settings, you need to use your local (LAN) IP address. You can obtain that by typing "ipconfig" into your command console. It is your IPv4 address.
When you test your connection, use your external (WAN) IP address, which you can obtain from here: http://www.whatsmyip.org/
I clicked the link and it showed me this: I port forwarded my ipv4 as shown in cmd but still,
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what do you think i should click?
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I installed a port checker, but it only checks my ipv4. here is the result
and another port checker says
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I clicked the link and it showed me this:
I port forwarded my ipv4 as shown in cmd
but still,
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But SMP server status checker says:
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192.168.1.150
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