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Is it possible to open a port on a Telus modem?
I tried to create a port using the port forwarding tab in the firewall settings for my minecraft sever, it is not working. I have used many different port numbers such as the default 25565, 22, and 8...
You don't "open" a port. On the router you forward an existing non-blocked port to your server and your server listens on that port. If a non-blocked port doesn't work it's not because it's not "open", it's because nothing is responding on that port.
Checklist:
- Did you reserve an IP address for the server you are port forwarding to?
- Did you verify whether your server is using the default port 25565 or a custom port?
- Is your server running when you do an external test?
- Did you verify you can access your server internally from your LAN?
- Did you try canyouseeme.org for testing? That's what I use so I know it works.
