I had a thread a while back about winsocks and connecting them through LAN, which worked! http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=446639 (that thread contains the code for server/client)

My program listens on port 6980, and again, can send data between client and server successfully when on a LAN. I am attempting to get the server to accept connections from other computers that aren't on the network. The problem is, whenever the client attempts to use my public ip, even if the client and server are on the same computer, it still won't connect. I have forwarded my ports and added port 6980 to exceptions in firewall, and it is still yet to work.

Has anyone had any success in getting their server program to allow connections from clients outside of the LAN? And if so, how?