- Apr 18, 2016
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Hello, I am having issues forwarding ports on my router, I have tried many online guides to no avail and am just about at my wits' end. I'm currently trying to forward some of my ports for hosting gaming servers for me and some friends, however no matter what I try (port forwarding, "port triggering" (whatever that is), and even putting my device as a "DMZ"), I don't seem to be having any success. So here's where I'm at/what I've tried:
I have been able to access my router's configuration menu successfully, and through the "Access Control" menu I am able to use a "Port Forwarding" menu as well. In an effort to get literally any port to work, I have created 2 custom rules (one for TCP and another for UDP) with service as "other", external host blank, external ports from 1-65535 (yes, for testing purposes I have tried opening ALL of my ports, I figure I can change it to something specific if/when it works), internal host as 192.168.1.7 (my ipv4 as listed by ipconfig), and internal ports from 1-65535 (again, all). To summarize, each field reads as:
Service: Other
External Host: *
Internal Host: 192.168.1.7
External Port: 1-65535
Internal Port: 1-65535
In addition to the seemingly obvious solution of forwarding my ports through the "Port Forwarding" menu, I also tried through a menu called "Port Triggering", filling in the fields as follows:
Trigger Protocol: TCP/UDP (one service for each)
Open Protocol: TCP/UDP (one service for each)
Trigger from Port: 1
Trigger to Port: 1
Open from Port: 65535
Open to Port: 65535
(yes, I also tried to trigger/open all of them here too, please let me know if I'm my own enemy here or not)
Lastly, despite security concerns, I decided to try and DMZ my desktop. To do this, I simply entered my my ipv4 address (192.168.1.7) and it recognized it as my desktop.
Despite trying all three of these honestly questionable solutions, I have had zero success when trying to test if any of my ports are open, both when friends have tried connecting to my servers as well as when I have tried testing my ports through the "open port check tool" site. It's also worth noting that my router seems to be either a very new or very weird model of spectrum router, as the interface is totally different than what I've seen online looking at guides for other spectrum routers (most are for a "RAC2V1K" wave 2 router, which has entirely different menus and options). I am kind of a novice at this, so I am absolutely expecting that I've missed something really basic here, and I'd appreciate any help or suggestions. I also have images of each part of what I've posted, and I'll attach them as soon as I figure out how, if possible. Thanks in advance for any assistance, I appreciate it.
I have been able to access my router's configuration menu successfully, and through the "Access Control" menu I am able to use a "Port Forwarding" menu as well. In an effort to get literally any port to work, I have created 2 custom rules (one for TCP and another for UDP) with service as "other", external host blank, external ports from 1-65535 (yes, for testing purposes I have tried opening ALL of my ports, I figure I can change it to something specific if/when it works), internal host as 192.168.1.7 (my ipv4 as listed by ipconfig), and internal ports from 1-65535 (again, all). To summarize, each field reads as:
Service: Other
External Host: *
Internal Host: 192.168.1.7
External Port: 1-65535
Internal Port: 1-65535
In addition to the seemingly obvious solution of forwarding my ports through the "Port Forwarding" menu, I also tried through a menu called "Port Triggering", filling in the fields as follows:
Trigger Protocol: TCP/UDP (one service for each)
Open Protocol: TCP/UDP (one service for each)
Trigger from Port: 1
Trigger to Port: 1
Open from Port: 65535
Open to Port: 65535
(yes, I also tried to trigger/open all of them here too, please let me know if I'm my own enemy here or not)
Lastly, despite security concerns, I decided to try and DMZ my desktop. To do this, I simply entered my my ipv4 address (192.168.1.7) and it recognized it as my desktop.
Despite trying all three of these honestly questionable solutions, I have had zero success when trying to test if any of my ports are open, both when friends have tried connecting to my servers as well as when I have tried testing my ports through the "open port check tool" site. It's also worth noting that my router seems to be either a very new or very weird model of spectrum router, as the interface is totally different than what I've seen online looking at guides for other spectrum routers (most are for a "RAC2V1K" wave 2 router, which has entirely different menus and options). I am kind of a novice at this, so I am absolutely expecting that I've missed something really basic here, and I'd appreciate any help or suggestions. I also have images of each part of what I've posted, and I'll attach them as soon as I figure out how, if possible. Thanks in advance for any assistance, I appreciate it.
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