I tried Greg's recommendation but can't seem to get this working either. I can direct connect just fine, but I have to specify ip:port, my kids aren't going to be able to do that 😞. I've made sure that we are on the same network and Wifi band (both are on the 2.4 band). I would suspect the ability to direct connect negates any basic networking issues.
How does Minecraft broadcast a game? I can run a network trace and see what is happening.
Edit: Just grabbed a network capture and while Minecraft had a LAN enabled game running, the hosting PC sends out over UDP 64445 to 4445, to multicast address 224.0.2.60. This is received by my other PC, but still nothing shows in the games list.
I have a Netgear R7000 and both PCs are Windows 10, Minecraft versions are the same - 1.12.2
Jamin
I tried Greg's recommendation but can't seem to get this working either.
I can direct connect just fine, but I have to specify ip:port, my kids aren't going to be able to do that 😞. I've made sure that we are on the same network and Wifi band (both are on the 2.4 band). I would suspect the ability to direct connect negates any basic networking issues.
How does Minecraft broadcast a game? I can run a network trace and see what is happening.
Edit: Just grabbed a network capture and while Minecraft had a LAN enabled game running, the hosting PC sends out over UDP 64445 to 4445, to multicast address 224.0.2.60. This is received by my other PC, but still nothing shows in the games list.
I have a Netgear R7000 and both PCs are Windows 10, Minecraft versions are the same - 1.12.2