Thread: PureVPN Hosting Trouble
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January 22nd, 2019, 06:06 #1
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PureVPN Hosting Trouble
I've Tried to set up hosting through PureVPN due to being in a college dorm that can't be port fowarded. Connections Fails whenever I try.
I Looked at this previous thread https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...reVPN-Question
and was unable to get anywhere.
I Do have the Dedicated Server and Port Fowarding addons and think it may be a firewall issue as gone over in the previous thread. But I don't know specifically what or where to change.
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January 22nd, 2019, 08:14 #2
Open Network and Sharing Centre and make sure that your LAN and PureVPN connections are set to Private or Home.
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January 22nd, 2019, 14:19 #3
Once you’ve done what damned mentions, wait for PureVPN to register an IP address (it doesn’t do this immediately) before starting FG. On the FG load campaign screen click in the external IP field and ensure it is the same IP as reported by PureVPN. Then try the connection test.
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January 22nd, 2019, 18:38 #4
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I did have to change both my Wifi and VPN to both be Private connections, and the VPN's ip does show up in fantasy grounds (Both internal and external) but the connection test still came up as failed after a few seconds of it trying to connect.
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January 22nd, 2019, 23:54 #5
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You still have to port forward. Did you set that up properly? If you have multiple routers (modem and wireless if they are different units) ar often culprit but probably not in dorm
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January 22nd, 2019, 23:59 #6
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Unfortunately I don't have the option to port forward from my dorm. When I was at home I had success in Port Forwarding there, This VPN service also has an addon to port-forward.
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January 23rd, 2019, 00:02 #7
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Well if you don’t have a router is something between vpn and you then you shouldn’t need to port forward. However, your computer or something might be blocking it. I have never heard anyone needing the PureVPN forwarding option.
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January 23rd, 2019, 00:09 #8
Bidmaron - can you reread what you have posted? Im not following any of it...
Thatpandaman - you need your computer to be listening on a public IP address on TCP Port 1802.
I dont use PureVPN so I dont know its specifics.
If you have a dedicated IP address then you should be able to configure the connection to open TCP 1802.
If you have the Port Forward option configure it to Port Forward TCP 1802.
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January 23rd, 2019, 00:16 #9
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It doesn’t sound like you need to port forward.
However something on your machine is blocking the port or at least intercepting. If you can surf internet on PureVPN there shouldn’t be anything the dorm could do to block you. It has to be a security feature on your machine
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January 23rd, 2019, 00:44 #10
With the dedicated IP address option for PureVPN you don’t need any additional port forwarding in the network - that’s the whole reason to use it.
However, as has been mentioned, there may be local security apps blocking the connectivity on the GM computer itself.
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