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midnight glade Jan 27, 2022, 9:16 PM

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Pulling you in here because it's getting crowded out there

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Doc Boomstick Router Help

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 9:17 PM

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Yeah, I appreciate it

midnight glade Jan 27, 2022, 9:17 PM

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So on your trace if you look at the 2nd set of IP addresses you see

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the 192.168.1.1 is another router

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 9:17 PM

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Okay yeah, makes sense

midnight glade Jan 27, 2022, 9:18 PM

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Sometimes the ISP give you a modem/router combo unit

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It is possible you have one of those and it never mattered

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 9:18 PM

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Yeah they gave me the modem and router as separate devices

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:19 PM

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technical explanation: 10...* addresses and 192.168.. address are so called private address that are reserved for routers and private networks which are not routed by the Internet. so that's what point that are two layers of local networks consecutively

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so one of it could be your ISP, but seeing this there could be a good chance that one is your ISP Router and one is a WiFi Bridge or another router in your local network

midnight glade Jan 27, 2022, 9:20 PM

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wide frigate Yeah they gave me the modem and router as separate devices

So do you have it setup as Modem -> Their router -> your mesh?

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 9:20 PM

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Right I use a mesh system so I can have a wired connection

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I think so yes

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:21 PM

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Ok easiest solution: Can you plug in your Foundry Hosting system, for example, with a LAN cable to the ISP router (the one that probably use the 192.168.. network layer ?)

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 9:21 PM

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It's too far away for me to be able to do that

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:21 PM

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or is that not practiable for you

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ok

midnight glade Jan 27, 2022, 9:21 PM

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hollow berry Ok easiest solution: Can you plug in your Foundry Hosting system, for example, w...

So it's a little tricky here, but you need to log into the router they gave you and setup a port forward there to the mesh linksys

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bah wrong user

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lol

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:22 PM

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then we would need to do the Portforwarding thing 2 times - first from your ISP ROuter in die 192.168 network to the Mesh router on the 10.204.1.1 and from the mesh network router then to your local Foundry Host

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@midnight glade everything fine - we all had 2 really long years 😄

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 9:23 PM

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OKay give me a second to try and do this

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It's really shitty because it's my router and everything but it only works in one port in the house

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:24 PM

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@wide frigate think of it literally like a physical paket - you need to configure that it gets delivered from your ISP router to your Mesh Network Router and from your Mesh Network Router a second time to your Foundry server

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Way back the pakets find their own way (just handed up to the default gateway which is the router automatically)

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 9:27 PM

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So what would be the internal/external ports to get it set up from router to mesh?

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Also does the protocol matter? Should that just be TCP too?

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:29 PM

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Should go: In your ISP Router (which should have 192.168.1.1) you make a port forward to IP 10.204.1.1, Protocol is TCP, Port is 30000

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 9:29 PM

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So that makes the ISP router the internal port?

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:30 PM

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in your Mesh Router (which should have 10.204.1.1) you do the same (TCP, Port 30000) Target IP is the IP of your PC that is somewhere in the 10.204.1.x network

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:30 PM

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wide frigate So that makes the ISP router the internal port?

ok best, I think, is you make a screenshot of the configuration dialog of the router and post it and we say you what to put in which field

midnight glade Jan 27, 2022, 9:30 PM

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It just passes the port from the isp router to the mesh

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:31 PM

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start with the most outer router in die 192.168.x.x network which is connected to the internet and should be reachable through http://192.168.1.1 or https://192.168.1.1 for you

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 9:34 PM

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Give me a min, this is getting complicated on my end

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So my ISP is spectrum and they don't seem to let you make port forwarding on the computer they make you use an app

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:35 PM

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No matter, take your time, my next own Foundry sessions is not before the 05.02. 😉

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I have time 😉

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 9:35 PM

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In the app, I made an IP reservation for the mesh and I'm trying to est. port forwarding as FoundryVTT ext. and int. port 30000 with TCP protocol and it won't let me save it

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:36 PM

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Ok do you know where to find Port Forward with the app or should we see if we find another helper that is more experienced with spectrums "special configuration" stuff ?

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 9:36 PM

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I found where to set it up

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It just won't let me save it for some reason

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:41 PM

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I just look around if I get one of the other girls & guys to join us which knows Spectrum special "ideas" about how to manage your network stuff 😉

midnight glade Jan 27, 2022, 9:41 PM

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You might have to make the reservation and restart both routers first

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 9:41 PM

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Alright I'll try that

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So I added the port, turns out all I had to do was restart my phone

thick marsh Jan 27, 2022, 9:56 PM

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So I have Spectrum, however I have my own equipment and don't have the app or anything... but I can try and help otherwise. The instructions everyone's given so far are pretty much spot on, so it definitely hinges on you being able to setup the initial port forward in the spectrum app to go from that Spectrum router to the mesh network router.

The mesh network router should have an IP address on the same network as the spectrum router, and that's what you should forward it to

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:56 PM

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Great - do you want to make a fast screenshot from the Port Forward in Spectrum so we can see if everything should be ok ?

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@wide frigate

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 9:57 PM

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They won't let you do a screenshot

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:57 PM

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wide frigate They won't let you do a screenshot

ok then assume everything is fine

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 9:58 PM

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We now got the green checkmark boys

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:59 PM

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Uhhh green checkmark is very good

thick marsh Jan 27, 2022, 9:59 PM

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🎉

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 9:59 PM

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can you test if your Foundry is reachable from the Internet or do you want us to test if we can see your login page ?

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 9:59 PM

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I'll send y'all the link and see if you can join

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 10:00 PM

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looks good from here!

midnight glade Jan 27, 2022, 10:00 PM

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Looks like you're good to go

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Couple of suggestions for you

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 10:01 PM

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Thank all of you so much

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I'll take em

midnight glade Jan 27, 2022, 10:01 PM

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Your background is 14Mb

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That is huge

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 10:02 PM

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The image is?

midnight glade Jan 27, 2022, 10:02 PM

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Convert your media to a webp

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that's the same image with same size as 3Mb instead of 14Mb

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all I did was convert it to a webp

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 10:03 PM

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@wide frigate for security reasons you should remove the message with the link to your Foundry

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 10:03 PM

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Ok

midnight glade Jan 27, 2022, 10:03 PM

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I got it already

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So not sure how techincal you are but with your image being 14Mb that means each player who connects has to download it

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If you have 4 players that's 56Mb of data being sent before they can even get into the game

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By converting your images to webp you can get the same quality with a huge reduction in file size

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The folks in #media-and-assets can help with that process. All I did was toss it on photopea.com and exported as webp for your background

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I tried to join your game as a player and I'm still waiting to load in

hollow berry Jan 27, 2022, 10:06 PM

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Yeah - I would reduce it to a legit Size like 1920x1080 and save webp (or jpg with a larger compression) - it's "only" the background image, think no need for super-high resolution and details

midnight glade Jan 27, 2022, 10:06 PM

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So you probably have some large files being served

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That's the same image as 1920x1080 webp

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it's 400k

wide frigate Jan 27, 2022, 10:07 PM

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Okay, I just put that there from the module's stored images I had no idea it was so big

midnight glade Jan 27, 2022, 10:08 PM

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35x smaller 😛

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Well you look to be good to go. Not sure what modules and such you're running but I'm still waiting to load in. So you might want to prune down your modules and such. I don't see any errors, but I am not going wait for it to load any any further

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