Using portforwarding through a RE450 wifi extender

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Using portforwarding through a RE450 wifi extender
Using portforwarding through a RE450 wifi extender
2021-04-25 23:21:06 - last edited 2021-04-25 23:25:55
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Hello, I am trying to set up a minecraft server. To my understanding, I need to portfoward the Wifi extender through my router, and my computer through the wifi extender. However, I can't seem to find any way to portforward using a wifi extender, and I was wondering how I could fix my problem. The server works just fine when I connect my computer directly to my router's wifi, but I can't seem to make it work when my computer is connected to the wifi extender since the connection is much better.

If it is not possible to portforward using a wifi extender, I would like to know how I could make my router detect my computer through my extender.

Thanks in advance!

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Re:Using portforwarding through a RE450 wifi extender
2021-04-27 20:58:51

@Psonbre 

 

The extender does not need port forwarding. If the extender was actually a router, then you would do double port forwarding, but not this case. What needs to be done is you need to find out what the IP of the client device is. When a device connects through our extender it gets a different MAC address so your router is probably giving a different IP compared to the device being directly connected to the router. The first half of the MAC address should be the same, and the other half is what will be different.

 

You can also use the Tether app to look at the connected devices' IP info or do an IP lookup on the device itself.

 

Once you have the IP of your server, do the port forwarding in your main router.

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2021-04-27 21:53:05 - last edited 2021-04-27 21:54:06

@Tony 
Thanks a lot! I managed to make the server go online when I'm connected to the extender, however it seems to only work when my computer is connected to the extender's wifi, but not when it is connected by cable. When using the tether app, I can only see my computer in the clients when it's connected by wifi and not by cable. Since my internet is pretty slow without using a cable I'd like to know if it's possible to make it work with it. 

Thanks again!

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