Hello, I created my own dedicated sever, but I am having trouble making it connectable outside of my LAN. It is findable in the in-game server browser, AND its connectable from my other machine on the LAN, but it is NOT connectable from machines outside my LAN (they can see it too in the server browser though). The error that pops up is "Could Not Retrieve Server Information"
I followed this guide leaving almost everything at the defaults, (server was created after the newest updated)
Created a static IP on my lan for my server machine
turned on port forwarding
Created the exceptions in windows defender firewall (and tried turning if off completely, still wasn't connectable)
Reset the server and my router.
I would love some tips to try to fix this, I feel like I have exhausted any searches on the matter.... should I just delete everything and start over again?
other info:
Asus router RT-AC66U_B1 using stock software
Using the Asus router's "Manual Assignment" for static IP, which HAS keep the IP of my server static on the LAN.
We are all launching the game through xbox gamepass
When starting a listen server via the in game menu, no-one could join either. We could join a friend's game listen server who had done no prep/portforwarding/anything, all they did was allow the connection in windows firewall when the popup came.