Help with Akka's PEQ installer

[ThermalLobster]

Okay so hoping for some guidance or help with getting Akka's up and running.

1. Using fresh install of Windows 10 Pro x64 on IP 192.168.1.15
2. Direct connect to Netgear Nighthawk R7800 Router
2. Ran Akka's PEQ Installer
3. Fresh install of Titanium EQ on EQ Emu server, hard wired windows 10 machine and wireless laptop.
4. EQEmu installed to C:\eqemuserver
5. EQ Titanium installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\EverQuest
6. Have tried to connect on all 3 machines, all 3 machines just sit at "connecting....." then tell me they can't reach the server

Tried multiple configurations of login.ini and eqemu_config.json using "localhost", "127.0.0.1", and "192.168.1.15"

eqhosts.ini file has been tried with "localhost", "127.0.0.1", and "192.168.1.15" on port 5998

no matter what I try I cannot get my eqclient to see the login server, just sits at "trying to connect"

screen shot of EQEmu screens below



Here's my current eqhost.ini

[LoginServer]
Host=192.168.1.15:5998

Here's my eqemu_config.json

{
     "server" : {
          "chatserver" : {
               "host" : "192.168.1.15",
               "port" : "7778"
          },
          "database" : {
               "db" : "peq",
               "host" : "192.168.1.15",
               "password" : "eqemu",
               "port" : "3306",
               "username" : "root"
          },
          "mailserver" : {
               "host" : "192.168.1.15",
               "port" : "7778"
          },
          "qsdatabase" : {
               "db" : "peq",
               "host" : "192.168.1.15",
               "password" : "eqemu",
               "port" : "3306",
               "username" : "root"
          },
          "webinterface" : {
               "port" : "9081"
          },
          "world" : {
               "http" : {
                    "enabled" : "true",
                    "mimefile" : "mime.types",
                    "port" : "9080"
               },
               "key" : "aMBdjbMEsWYjCt5BFbeG4x6wb0UjNVi",
               "loginserver1" : {
                    "account" : "XXXXXXX",
                    "host" : "login.eqemulator.net",
                    "legacy" : "1",
                    "password" : "XXXXXXX",
                    "port" : "5998"
               },
               "loginserver2" : {
                    "account" : "",
                    "host" : "192.168.1.15",
                    "password" : "",
                    "port" : "5998"
               },
               "longname" : "XXXXXXXXX",
               "shortname" : "XXX",
               "tcp" : {
                    "ip" : "192.168.1.15",
                    "port" : "9001"
               },
               "telnet" : {
                    "enabled" : "true",
                    "ip" : "0.0.0.0",
                    "port" : "9000"
               }
          },
          "zones" : {
               "defaultstatus" : "0",
               "ports" : {
                    "high" : "7400",
                    "low" : "7000"
               }
          }
     }
}

Here's my Login file

[database]
host = 192.168.1.15
port = 3306
db = peq
user = root
password = eqemu
subsystem = MySQL

[options]
unregistered_allowed = TRUE
reject_duplicate_servers = FALSE
trace = TRUE
world_trace = FALSE
dump_packets_in = FALSE
dump_packets_out = FALSE
listen_port = 5998
local_network = 192.168.1.
auto_create_accounts = TRUE

[security]
plugin = EQEmuAuthCrypto
mode = 5

[Titanium]
port = 5998
opcodes = login_opcodes.conf

[SoD]
port = 5999
opcodes = login_opcodes_sod.conf

[schema]
account_table = loginserver_server_accounts
world_registration_table = loginserver_world_server_registration
world_admin_registration_table = loginserver_server_admin_registration
world_server_type_table = loginserver_server_list_type

I've tried installing Akka's on 2 separate machines and get the same result after running the installer.

Basically trying to set this up to use locally over LAN and also have my brother login from his house externally.

At this point i'd settle for it just working over local LAN, I have forwarded the required ports in my router but that's moot if I can't even login locally.

Please let me know if theres any further information I can provide to get this issue resolved and thank you all in advance for any advice.

And yes, I've been pouring over the Wiki, the GitHub page, and scouring forums and youtube for anything related to Akka's PEQ installer for help to no avail.