I have played mine craft on my own server for hundreds of hours without any issues. After taking a break for about half a year I decided to start playing again so I downloaded MC1.7.10 and the latest server version as well, set it all up as usual and was playing with my friend the whole day yesterday.
We wanted to play again today but all of a sudden one of us can't connect anymore, getting the dreaded timeout error message.
Here is the setup:
Host computer is a Windows pc which also serves as client for one of us two players (is powerful enough with 16GB RAM, worked fine for hundreds of hours of play without any crash at all).
Second computer with second MC client is running on a Macbook Pro, connected through WLAN.
Port forwarding is enabled, even though I read it's not necessary for LAN games, we always used the server to connect to as if we were at a different location and that always worked for months!
So now, I can't connect to the server anymore from the Macbook Pro (WLAN connection). The Windows pc (which is also the server) can connect just fine.
In the meantime I have also tried to share a single player game from the server pc as a LAN game. On the Macbook Pro I can see the game but when I try to connect I also get the timeout error.
Now I've been reading through over a dozen threads on various websites and tried all possible fixes/suggestions for fixes, have checked firewall etc. but can't see the reason why all of a sudden it's not working anymore!?!
Once again, we just played yesterday for like 10 hours straight without any issue, on the very same setup and I haven't made any changes to it.
The only last thing I can find where there might be a problem is port forwarding. On the Mac I checked port forwarding through this website: http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/
And it says that port 25565 is closed!
Which A) is weird since I enabled port forwarding directly in the router and always worked and B) at least should not have any influence on playing a LAN game as per official info on how to play Minecraft in LAN
The router I'm using is a Netgear, modem is a Cisco (without built in router).
Any suggestions would be very helpful. I paid specifically for two MC accounts so we could play at home with my friends and now it's not working at all, wasted money 😞
Marc Oberdorfer
I have played mine craft on my own server for hundreds of hours without any issues. After taking a break for about half a year I decided to start playing again so I downloaded MC1.7.10 and the latest server version as well, set it all up as usual and was playing with my friend the whole day yesterday.
We wanted to play again today but all of a sudden one of us can't connect anymore, getting the dreaded timeout error message.
Here is the setup:
Host computer is a Windows pc which also serves as client for one of us two players (is powerful enough with 16GB RAM, worked fine for hundreds of hours of play without any crash at all).
Second computer with second MC client is running on a Macbook Pro, connected through WLAN.
Port forwarding is enabled, even though I read it's not necessary for LAN games, we always used the server to connect to as if we were at a different location and that always worked for months!
So now, I can't connect to the server anymore from the Macbook Pro (WLAN connection). The Windows pc (which is also the server) can connect just fine.
In the meantime I have also tried to share a single player game from the server pc as a LAN game. On the Macbook Pro I can see the game but when I try to connect I also get the timeout error.
Now I've been reading through over a dozen threads on various websites and tried all possible fixes/suggestions for fixes, have checked firewall etc. but can't see the reason why all of a sudden it's not working anymore!?!
Once again, we just played yesterday for like 10 hours straight without any issue, on the very same setup and I haven't made any changes to it.
The only last thing I can find where there might be a problem is port forwarding. On the Mac I checked port forwarding through this website:
http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/
And it says that port 25565 is closed!
Which A) is weird since I enabled port forwarding directly in the router and always worked
and B) at least should not have any influence on playing a LAN game as per official info on how to play Minecraft in LAN
The router I'm using is a Netgear, modem is a Cisco (without built in router).
Any suggestions would be very helpful. I paid specifically for two MC accounts so we could play at home with my friends and now it's not working at all, wasted money 😞