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Snugglyn's avatar
Snugglyn
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6 months ago

Phantom Ethernet Connection

Bit of a head scratcher here. I've been trying to port-forward for my desktop's minecraft server via its ethernet connection, but while I've managed to set up DHCP for my computer & port forward to it, the (3.0) hub continually insists that there are no devices connected via ethernet...

Given that I can turn off my computer's wifi connection and still access the internet via the ethernet adapter, and ipconfig reports I'm happily bound to 192.168.0.112 (as I defined in DHCP settings) I'm somewhat stumped. Ordinarily this would be a minor curiosity and little more since I am -in fact- still connected to the net, but people connecting to the minecraft server via the external ip seem to have massively strangled connections. They can find the server and connect, but then experience phenomena demonstrative of an unworkably sketchy connection (connection time-outs, infinite loading). Are these things connected? Is there some setting I've missed somewhere that might be choking my connections?

I've got firewall rules set inbound & outbound for both TCP & UDP on the relevant port... So what's going on? Why does my ethernet connection seem intent on pretending it doesn't exist?

  • legacy1's avatar
    legacy1
    Alessandro Volta

    buggy hub 

    Looks like you need to get a better router with 1Gb ports well supported and have hub in modem mode

  • Client62's avatar
    Client62
    Alessandro Volta

    Our Hub 3 does not show "Connected devices" that have a Reserved IP below the DHCP range ( 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.9 ) hence our Cisco ATA at 192.168.0.6 is not listed, but it is working just fine.

    Also not listed as Connected devices are any devices with a Static IP.