Does your laptop still test success?
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Does your laptop still test success?
Yes it does. IP address on the laptop is 192.168.1.143.
Then there is something else happening on your network. You have setup a port forward rule on your router but it is being ignored and traffic is still being forwarded to the laptop? please review your router setup and confirm you have no other port forward settings and your laptop is not in DMZ mode or anything like that.
Started the laptop version - went to CanYouSeeMe.Org and put in my WAN IP and port 1802 - it sees it as open. Just a datapoint. I have a bad feeling it is something on the tower that is goofed up.
Its not the tower.
If the laptop is still reporting a connection success its the network.
Packets come in. The router has to decide where to send them. If they are for TCP 1802 it sends them to one destination only. And it should be the destination you have set in the port forwards.
Please load a campaign as GM on the tower and the laptop and post the alias.
Ill connect and we will see which one it connects to.
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Reboot router?
It might be worth (at least temporarily, as a test) doing the following:
1. Disable UPnP on your router
2. Delete the port forwarding rule
3. Reboot the router
4. Create the port forward rule fresh
UPnP is poorly implemented on some routers and with multiple computers all trying to use it to set up the same port forward rule, it's at least conceivable that it could be tripping over itself and causing problems. I personally keep UPnP disabled and only create port forwarding rules I know I need.
Thanks for the thought - I have actually tried this, to no avail. I am still noodling that the two laptops have no issue using UPnP and the two towers, even with a port forward and UPnP on or off fail. I admit my router is as old as the hills, and I will go buy another to get this working, but something seems off here.
I am failing the test connection and I'm not sure why. I've changed the port to 1802 and my trace is
1 13ms 6ms 5ms dsldevice.attlocal.net [192.168.1.254]
2 23ms 23ms 30ms 107-217-192-1.lightspeed.tukrga.sbcglobal.net [107.217.192.1]
3 * * * request timed out.
4 25ms 24ms 25ms 12.242.113.19
5 23ms 23ms 24ms 12.255.10.8
6 28ms 25ms 26ms 172.253.7.63
7 24ms 24ms 23ms 209.85.241.155
8 24ms 24ms 24ms dns.google [8.8.8.8]
trace complete