Metasploit Outside the Local Area Network

Hello everyone,

I have a question about metasploit. I want to know how metasploit will work outside my local area network. The payload (windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp) works well in Vmware and I can get the session but that does not work outside my network when the payload is run. I have tried lport 4444 and 8080 but it does not work. Please say me how metasploit works outside local area network.

Thanks!