Fantasy Grounds Classic Connections Explained

[Knight General]

okay thanks very much i plan on talking with them as well just to further push the subject

[jakobmalkav]

Looking for help, as really confused with this for once.

1. Your LAN IP Address
192.168.1.9

2. The first two sets (octects) of your WAN IP as displayed by Fantasy Grounds and as displayed by your Router
Whatismyip.com shows the same as fantasy grounds external

3. Whether you are using Wired or Wireless (and not both)
Tried both cannot accept an inbound external connection on either.
I preferably use wireless but will use wired for hosting if necessary.

4. Confirmation that you have set your Adapter in Network and Sharing Centre to Private
Yep set to private

5. Confirmation of what AV you are running and whether you have set any exceptions
Using microsoft defender (what comes with win10) and have set exception in firewall for both fantasy grounds and specifically created the rule in the firewall for anything on 1802

6. Post the results of the tracert 8.8.8.8 command (if you have security concerns you can remove this bit once its been responded to)
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms RAC2V1S [192.168.1.1]
2 14 ms 15 ms 12 ms 072-031-136-169.res.spectrum.com [72.31.136.169]
3 37 ms 20 ms 13 ms ten-0-5-1-6.orld14-ser2.bhn.net [72.31.216.184]
4 16 ms 17 ms 16 ms bundle-ether29.ORLD71-CAR2.bhn.net [72.31.196.198]
5 19 ms 22 ms 14 ms 072-031-188-176.res.spectrum.com [72.31.188.176]
6 22 ms 163 ms 87 ms 10.bu-ether15.orldfljo00w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.98]
7 28 ms 26 ms 32 ms 0.xe-11-3-3.pr0.dca10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.1.32]
8 24 ms 27 ms 25 ms 209-18-36-63.tbone.rr.com [209.18.36.63]
9 26 ms 28 ms 26 ms 108.170.225.164
10 28 ms 29 ms 25 ms 108.170.225.113
11 24 ms 42 ms 27 ms dns.google [8.8.8.8]

7. Confirmation as to what you have setup in your Router if changes have been made
port forwarding.jpg

A few notes to answer obvious questions:
1. ISP: Spectrum
2. Can I connect with a LAN: Yes, I can connect to my comp with another computer on the same internal network without issue using the internal address.
3.Interesting note: Fantasy grounds says success and green lights the connection when i run its test. But when I attempt to connect with the external IP or use "canyouseeme" the suggested site it returns a connection time out message.

[damned]

Looking for help, as really confused with this for once.

2. The first two sets (octects) of your WAN IP as displayed by Fantasy Grounds and as displayed by your Router
Whatismyip.com shows the same as fantasy grounds external

3. Whether you are using Wired or Wireless (and not both)
Tried both cannot accept an inbound external connection on either.
I preferably use wireless but will use wired for hosting if necessary.

4. Confirmation that you have set your Adapter in Network and Sharing Centre to Private
Yep set to private

5. Confirmation of what AV you are running and whether you have set any exceptions
Using microsoft defender (what comes with win10) and have set exception in firewall for both fantasy grounds and specifically created the rule in the firewall for anything on 1802

6. Post the results of the tracert 8.8.8.8 command (if you have security concerns you can remove this bit once its been responded to)
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms RAC2V1S [192.168.1.1]
2 14 ms 15 ms 12 ms 072-031-136-169.res.spectrum.com [72.31.136.169]
3 37 ms 20 ms 13 ms ten-0-5-1-6.orld14-ser2.bhn.net [72.31.216.184]
4 16 ms 17 ms 16 ms bundle-ether29.ORLD71-CAR2.bhn.net [72.31.196.198]
5 19 ms 22 ms 14 ms 072-031-188-176.res.spectrum.com [72.31.188.176]
6 22 ms 163 ms 87 ms 10.bu-ether15.orldfljo00w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.98]
7 28 ms 26 ms 32 ms 0.xe-11-3-3.pr0.dca10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.1.32]
8 24 ms 27 ms 25 ms 209-18-36-63.tbone.rr.com [209.18.36.63]
9 26 ms 28 ms 26 ms 108.170.225.164
10 28 ms 29 ms 25 ms 108.170.225.113
11 24 ms 42 ms 27 ms dns.google [8.8.8.8]

7. Confirmation as to what you have setup in your Router if changes have been made
port forwarding.jpg

A few notes to answer obvious questions:
1. ISP: Spectrum
2. Can I connect with a LAN: Yes, I can connect to my comp with another computer on the same internal network without issue using the internal address.
3.Interesting note: Fantasy grounds says success and green lights the connection when i run its test. But when I attempt to connect with the external IP or use "canyouseeme" the suggested site it returns a connection time out message.

if you have a success then its working
you cant connect to it from your own network because your router will block the traffic

[jakobmalkav]

Okay ill have a friend try connecting. I assumed it wasn't because i used the site fg recommends and it times out

[Green Spectre]

I have a new laptop and am having trouble setting up the port forwarding. My older laptop works fine with the port forwarding I set for it. but when I try to do the same for the newer laptop I get these errors:

Pinhole Conflict Detected (ip.nat.srvlist[2])
Pinhole Conflict Detected (ip.nat.srvlist[4])

What do i need to do to fix this?

[damned]

You can only port forward any port to one computer/destination.
Delete rule #2.

[JollyClaret]

1. Your LAN IP Address
192.168.0.15

2. The first two sets (octets) of your WAN IP as displayed by Fantasy Grounds and as displayed by your Router
86.30
octets1.JPG
octets2.JPG
3. Whether you are using Wired or Wireless (and not both)
I use exclusively ethernet wired

4. Confirmation that you have set your Adapter in Network and Sharing Centre to Private
Just changed it to private and problem still persists.
private.JPG

5. Confirmation of what AV you are running and whether you have set any exceptions
I use Kaspersky. I set up exceptions and even disabled it temporarily to test if it fixed it, it did not.
kaspersky.JPG

6. Post the results of the tracert 8.8.8.8 command (if you have security concerns you can remove this bit once its been responded to)
tracert 8.8.8.8

Tracing route to dns.google [8.8.8.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 2 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 23 ms 10 ms 10 ms manc-core-2a-xe-011-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.255.148.113]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 18 ms 19 ms 24 ms tcl5-ic-4-ae5-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.252.192.246]
6 22 ms 16 ms 38 ms 74.125.146.216
7 18 ms 16 ms 16 ms 209.85.249.187
8 31 ms 25 ms 20 ms 172.253.66.87
9 22 ms 20 ms 17 ms dns.google [8.8.8.8]

Trace complete.

7. Confirmation as to what you have setup in your Router if changes have been made
portforwarding1.JPG

8. Confirmation you do or do not have any Virtualisation NICs
I do not have any Virtualisation NICs.

A few notes to answer obvious questions:
1. ISP: Virgin Media UK
2. Can I connect with a LAN: Am unable to try this
3.Interesting note: It's been working perfectly for over a year and this has just happened.

[JollyClaret]

Fantasy Grounds Classic uses UDP not TCP.

I changed it to UDP and it still fails the test.

It's weird because I had a session Monday that I hosted and it worked fine.
Tonight for the first time in over a year it didn't work and I had to cancel the session because no players could connect.

[damned]

Hi JollyClaret

Please post screenshot for #2, #4, #5 showing rules and active, you havent answered #8.
Reboot your router.

[JollyClaret]

Hi JollyClaret

Please post screenshot for #2, #4, #5 showing rules and active, you havent answered #8.
Reboot your router.

Ok updated with all of these