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I have been away from byond for..awhile. I've been trying to test my ability to host to see if it's worth working on anything, but I'm having a slight issue. When I use dream daemon to host, I have a port forwarded through my Comcast router as well as my firewall, but players are still unable to connect to any game I put up. Dream daemon does say the port is open for players, so I'm not sure what my issue is atm. Any idea's or fixes would be great. I am running off a laptop in case that helps.
Set to public, if I'm understanding you right
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DreamDaemon gives a BYOND link that you can click to copy. Have you sent that link to your friends?
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I have my brother testing it, as well as me trying to connect from outside dream daemon. The link is http://www.byond.com/play/73.214.162.246:35001
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I was able to connect. The issue is on their end, not yours. Make sure they don't have any firewall that may inhibit connections to your IP.
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O so you were able to connect into the game?
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Yes, so like I said it is likely an issue on their end.
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Public internet such as those at colleges or libraries may inhibit connectivity to nonstandard ports, so basically if they're not at a home connection there's little they can do aside from using whats called a VPN, which is rather difficult to setup. Alternatively, you could try using port 80, but that isn't recommended and the firewall likely still would prevent that.
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Now that I look I see your name in dream daemon
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Haha, there actually right next to me. I'm running off wireless, there on the wired connection. My internet is 150mbps Comcast blast home internet
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Then instead connect using your LAN ip, with the same port. If you don't know how to get it, I can help you with that as well.
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I'm currently using my WAN and I don't use an Ethernet cable. He's only on Lan so I don't think that should be an issue
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Since you are connected over WiFi, you are connected to the LAN as are your friends.
Find your local IP, append the port with a colon and then the port number, and direct connect to the result. Example: byond://<lan ip>:<port> | |
I was thinking of something different, networking isnt my strong suit. Do you mean for linking them to the game use that?
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Yes. Have them connect with the new BYOND url that uses your LAN ip.
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byond://10.0.0.123:35001 so something like that
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Yes
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For future reference post issues like this in BYOND help
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You did give them your external IP and not your local one right?