topic Re: 5Gee router port forward not working in Mobile Broadband

5Gee router port forward not working

Kibinai — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:03:11 GMT

I am trying to port forward the port 25565 to setup a server to play Minecraft with some of my friends without needing to pay for a server, I have done everything I need to on the firewall on my computer as before I had this router I have hosted a MC server before and it worked.

These are my port forwarding settings

Re: 5Gee router port forward not working

XRaySpeX — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:41:58 GMT

You are probably finding yourself up against a limitation of EE's mobile network. The EE mobile network uses Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT) resulting in a double NAT, which games consoles often object to, which means you don't get your own public IP address but share it with other users. So you can't be uniquely id'ed on the Net & therefore your LAN cannot be addressed from outside for unsolicited accesses. This is unlike fixed BB.

If this occurs there is nowt you can do to avoid it.

IMHO EE the mobile network is not really suitable for running servers.

Re: 5Gee router port forward not working

Kibinai — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:44:56 GMT

Ok thank you ill go see about putting the server in my friends house, or just buying one online.

Re: 5Gee router port forward not working

XRaySpeX — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:46:08 GMT

Thanks! You're welcome 🙂 ! Glad I could be of assistance & trust it is now sorted.