Lan Not Connecting

[Jaiden190]

Hello. I'm having a 12 person lan party next weekend. Trying to get this set up. Does not seem to work for me. I can connect to other peoples servers but not my own.

Things I have done:
Port forward on the router 1000-1008
Port forward on the firewall
Disabled the firewalls
changed the port in the .ini file for each PC.
Tried it on 3 different computers.
Disabled all antivirus
Have no VPNs installed


I'm out of ideas. Anyone know whats going wrong?

 

[tweek]

Sounds like NAT loopback issues. Common with cartographer and most router setups. The server would need to be outside your network, and then the 12 clients should be able to connect to it from 1 network

 

[Jaiden190]

Sounds like NAT loopback issues. Common with cartographer and most router setups. The server would need to be outside your network, and then the 12 clients should be able to connect to it from 1 network

Hm il give it a shot. I have a sub to Torguard. Will host a server on that with it connected to Sydney server. Hopefully, the Ping is not too bad.

 

[tweek]

So you mention 12 person party, are there going to be 12 computers or do you plan on doing splitscreen on some of them? Because another alternative is to use Games for Windows Live in LAN mode

 

[Jaiden190]

So you mention 12 person party, are there going to be 12 computers or do you plan on doing splitscreen on some of them? Because another alternative is to use Games for Windows Live in LAN mode

12 computers are what we are doing. I wonder if I can run 2 instances of the game on the 1 PC. 1 instance using my LAN interface and the other using my VPN interface.

 

[Jaiden190]

So you mention 12 person party, are there going to be 12 computers or do you plan on doing splitscreen on some of them? Because another alternative is to use Games for Windows Live in LAN mode

Seems the VPN did not work. I have to port forward on it and that requires a dedicated IP. Would Tungle work?