I want to play with a friend

[daf_xf]

I want to play with a friend on mta,he hosted with the name "alex come here" but when i go to browse servers i dont see the server with that name,how can we play together?

[botanist]

Most likely his ports aren't forwarded, or he set 'donotbroadcastlan' to 1 in mtaserver.conf. Let him write 'openports' in the serverconsole to see if his ports are open. If they aren't, sent him to portforward.com to see how he can forward his ports on his router. Note that the mta tut for that is outdated, he will need to forward the following ports:

- 22003 UDP

- 22005 TCP*

- 22126 UDP

* iirc, might be 22004 TCP otherwise. Let him check his mtaserver.conf, it's the HTTP port.

If the ports are forwarded, but you still don't see his server, change 'donotbroadcastlan' to 0.

or am i wrong with donotbroadcastlan? I'm not so sure anymore now i'm thinking of it

[diegofkda]

Or get his IP adress and server Port, click to Quick Connect, copy and paste the IP and Port and click to Connect.

[botanist]

He will have to forward his 22003 UDP and 22005* TCP anyway, as those two are always required iirc. If you already forwarded two ports, the third one shouldn't be a problem.