Question port forwarding not working

[velocci]

Hi all, i'm having an issue with my port forwarding not working. here is my setup. I'm using Rogers Communications as my ISP. I have their modem in bridge mode so I can use my own Netgear router. I have port forwarding setup on my router. I'm not using a VPN. when I go to https://canyouseeme.org/ to see if it works, it says "Error: I could not see your service on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on port (xxxxx ) Reason: Connection timed out". here is now I setup my port forwarding on the router. what am I doing wrong? what is the most common reason for this error message?

Service Name	p2p
Service Type	TCP/UDP TCPUDP
External port range	25466-25466
(Please specify ports and port ranges split by commas, example: 30, 50 - 60, 65500 - 65510)
Internal port range	25466-25466
(Please specify ports and port ranges split by commas, example: 30, 50 - 60, 65500 - 65510)
Internal IP address	10.12.16.32

 

[SkyNetRising]

what am I doing wrong? what is the most common reason for this error message?

Did you open port 25466 in windows firewall?

Can you show screenshot with command output from:

ipconfig /all​

(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[ex_bubblehead]

First, have you verified that the IP address given at www.whatismyipaddress.com matches the IP address assigned to your modem by your provider? If they don't match then you don't have a public IP and cannot port forward.

Second, assuming a public IP address exists, do you have the application running on the port/s in question at the moment you run the test? If nothing is running there then of course nothing will answer.

 

[velocci]

Did you open port 25466 in windows firewall?

I did, but I associated it with my torrent client. can you open a port without associating it to any application?

 

[velocci]

First, have you verified that the IP address given at www.whatismyipaddress.com matches the IP address assigned to your modem by your provider? If they don't match then you don't have a public IP and cannot port forward.

Second, assuming a public IP address exists, do you have the application running on the port/s in question at the moment you run the test? If nothing is running there then of course nothing will answer.

i got my public ip address from whatismyip.com. plus it does tell me in the router, but I can't find where that is.

i'm doing this port forwarding for my torrent client. I tried the canyouseeme.org with the torrent client running and without it running.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Until you locate the address given to your router we still don't (and won't) know whether or not you actually have a public IP address that can be used for forwarding. Assuming you actually configured everything properly the fact that canyouseeme doesn't see the ports as open is a big indicator that you don't have a public IP address and are therefore dead in the water.

 

[velocci]

Until you locate the address given to your router we still don't (and won't) know whether or not you actually have a public IP address that can be used for forwarding. Assuming you actually configured everything properly the fact that canyouseeme doesn't see the ports as open is a big indicator that you don't have a public IP address and are therefore dead in the water.

I'll look for it

 

[velocci]

Until you locate the address given to your router we still don't (and won't) know whether or not you actually have a public IP address that can be used for forwarding. Assuming you actually configured everything properly the fact that canyouseeme doesn't see the ports as open is a big indicator that you don't have a public IP address and are therefore dead in the water.

But doesn't whatismyip.com report the right public ip?

 

[ex_bubblehead]

But doesn't whatismyip.com report the right public ip?

Not necessarily. Whatismyip reports what it sees from your provider. You and many hundreds/thousands might well be NAT'd behind that address and have a non-routable private IP address. More and more providers are resorting to this as the IPV4 address space is exhausted and there aren't enough to be handing them out to everyone as they once did.