My friend can connect to my server… but I can’t?

[ocean berry]

I have no idea what to do anymore and nothing makes sense. I set up a dedicated server on an extra laptop I have, and I thought I set everything up correctly, port forwarding and all. However, this game rarely ever makes sense and just works…

I start the server, and go to the server list on PZ. I wait for the server to start everything up, I refresh, and the server shows up. “Ping: 4” I click join server… “contacting server”… “The server failed to respond”…. I’ll go back, and now the server is not responding.

Meanwhile, my friend is able to join from my public IP.

I’m about to go Rampage Jackson on my door. Anyone have any advice?

[ocean berry]

And then! It just randomly doesn’t even respond anymore

I have never felt so defeated by a video game ever in my life. This wouldn’t feel so bad if it made SOME logical sense, but this is a random thing. It’ll just randomly let me connect out of no where, while most of the time just giving me issues.

[zinc moss]

Are both computers networks set to "Private" in the "Network & internet" settings?

[zinc moss]

Can you connect to the server with your local IP rather than your public one (the local IP of the laptop)

[ocean berry]

Oml I THINK you may have just solved it for me, joined on first try, gonna retest again

However, I am getting a “Warning: server has port 16262 closed” so I’ll have to check on that cause I thought I did that correctly

[zinc moss]

Make sure you've not got Steam Relay on

[ocean berry]

Works beautifully now. Thank you so much. I owe you a pizza