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Originally Posted by chaley
If you are attempting to connect from outside your home network, i.e., using your phone provider's GSM-based wireless network, then you must use the IP address supplied by your ISP. You can get this by going to http://www.whatsmyip.org/. Note that if your ISP is assigning you a dynamic IP address, then it will change from time to time. There are ways around this inconvenience, but I won't go into them unless you have that problem.
The 192.168... address will work only from within your home net. Starson17's diagnostics are an excellent place to start if you are connecting to your home network using wifi. |
I was also questioning if the server was even running. It wasn't clear where to start.
BTW, as long as you're reading - I use dyndns to get "around this inconvenience." For years I've run a tiny software prog to do the that job on one of my 24/7 machines. Every now and then, I decide to stop using it, and turn on the automatic dyndns update built into my router. The router method seems to work perfectly, as I never lose access, but after a month or two I get an email from dyndns telling me I haven't logged in or updated in a month and they're terminating my free account! Then I switch back to the prog method of update and all goes well.
Does it make sense to you that the dynamic IP remains unchanged for more than a month, so the router never updates? I've never tracked the actual IP for that long. I know the prog update method does a periodic update. I've occasionally mentioned to others they can just use the built-in router dyndns updater, but now I wonder if that's not a good idea.