Fantasy Grounds Classic Connections Explained

[Protokos]

Thank you for the clarification.

[damned]

I can confirm that the 100. IP is ISP managed and you would need their assistance. Do ask them - Im sure they can do it (technically) but whether the person you speak to is allowed to or willing... roll some dice...

[Nylanfs]

Here's a solution to getting ISP's to be more open to opening this port. Get some of their tech people involved in our games, then they will fix it themselves.

[Karnas]

Ok, my own attempts to establish connection didn't seem to work, so:

1. LAN IP: 192.168.10.155, I've fixed it in connection settings
2. External IP shown by CanYouSeeMe doesn't seem to match one showed by FG
3. I'm using wired connection
4. I've set my network to private, I believe (sorry it's all in russian, but trust me it says "Private Network")
5. I have Avast, and I've added an exception for FG, although it never mattered before
6. Results of tracert 8.8.8.8 command
7. I have set up virtual server ports open in my router, as well as making rules in Windows firewall

Things worked normally until recently, we've played Tomb of Annihilation with no issue. I don't think I've done anything out of the ordinary to disrupt the settings of connection, but for some reason now CanYouSeeMe site doesn't seem to see any of my ports, and when I try to ping google or yandex from command prompt, they tell me that it gets timeout. I have no idea what going on.

[damned]

Hi Karnas

Does the IP in your Router Status for WAN match what FG believes it?
Everything else looks ok.
Test also with Avast turned off for 10 mins.

[Karnas]

Does the IP in your Router Status for WAN match what FG believes it?

It seems that it doesn't.
I also was mistaken, after relaunch of FG, it identified the same IP as CanYouSeeMe site.

[damned]

ok - things to test if it **was** working:

reboot router - test
turn off Avast for 10mins - test

if that doesnt work contact your ISP and ask them if they have changed anything because your port forwarding no longer works.
see what they say.

everything else looks ok to me.

[Karnas]

if that doesnt work contact your ISP and ask them if they have changed anything because your port forwarding no longer works.
see what they say.

Ultimately I've ended up giving my ISP extra two bucks a month for permanent external IP, which seems to have fixed the issue.

[damned]

Good stuff Karnas.
They may have been aggregating your IP with other people so it would work sometimes and not others.

[Cptn]

Hey guys,

my connection test also fails. Here are my responses:
1. 192.168.178.21
2. 88.130 is displayed by FG, https://www.whatismyip.com/de/ says the same (I can not manage to find any external ip in my fritzbox router)
3. Wired
4. Confirmed Unbenannt.PNG
5. Kaspersky Internet Security Unbenannt.PNG
6. tracert:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms fritz.box [192.168.178.1]
2 5 ms 4 ms 4 ms 192.0.0.1
3 5 ms 5 ms 4 ms 62.214.38.173
4 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms 62.214.37.130
5 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms 89.246.109.250
6 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms 108.170.252.65
7 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms 108.170.235.251
8 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]
7. Confirmed Unbenannt.PNG

I tried disabling my AV while testing and rebooting my pc as well but that didn't help as well. The Open Port Check Tool of https://canyouseeme.org/ fails and runs into into a timeout while checking port 1802.

Im afraid that I need to discuss this with a very annoyed employee of my ISP... Any ideas or tests I could do before let someone yell at me?

Thx in advance,
Jan