Optus Port Forwarding

[GoodProtein]

I have an Optus Router and I want to port forward to make a minecraft server. I've watch countless videos on this and struggle to find what's wrong. I used my IPv4 address, made sure it's the correct port (25565) made sure the fire wall on my computer allows for the connection, I'm using both UDP and TCP, under service I have other and after I did all of that I go on can you see me .org and they check with my WAN address and they can't see me. I left the external blank because I don't have an external host. I don't know what to do and frankly I don't know what I'm doing. If there is any information I missed out that might be useful please let me know. This is also my first time posting here and I feel like it won't be the last, are there any things I should know about making a post?

[Steph_JS]

Im having the exact issue i think optus did not aquire ports so no one can port foward for an mc server.

[Donut417]

2 hours ago, Steph_JS said:

Im having the exact issue i think optus did not aquire ports so no one can port foward for an mc server.

Looking at what an Optus router is, its for cellular based internet. Most cellular companies I know of here in the US use carrier grade NAT as they dont have enough public IP's. Thats likely your issue.

[ianm_ozzy]

I used to have an optus router. I switch to another provider.

 

Initially I could port forward.

The company was acquired by optus, then was behind a NAT.

I got suspicious as the public IP the router showed was not the same when I went to www.whatsmyip.com

It sucked.

 

For about 2 years, have used the most basic Virtual private server through linode.

It has ubuntu, with an openvpn server, pihole & a reverse proxy.

I spent a little time looking into securing it.

failtoban is useful.

 

It good to access resources on my home server, adblocking as well as security on public wifi.

It saves a lot of data use on the phone also.