Don't think because of the title I am incompetent and cant learn on my own. In fact I spent two hours today learning about port forwarding, (which is a skill I meant to memorize ever since I obtained Half life 2, YEARS AGO) but sadly the end result of my server is sad. I don't know where I went wrong, I have a netgear router, and I tried to forward the port, but when I got it to work, the Minecraft Server application didn't work. Did I forward it incorrectly? I named the service "Minecraft server" (minus the quotes) and it shortened to minecraft for some reason. I made the port start 25565  and the port end 25565. I left the server IP address default one time, then I tried the external ip address on my pc. At one point one of the two worked, but now I cant seem to even get it to register. I thought I understood it but I guess not, but whatever it is I think the difference may be so menial I still do understand it, it was just an easy, every day mistake. If I at any point did not seam clear, just to get this answer, I will make a video on youtube to show you my exact problem.