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    1. 05-11-2008 06:34 PM #1
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      Port Forwarding

      Lately I've been getting messages from a bunch of my programs telling me that I have a firewall or something limiting my network traffic. I don't have any active firewalls on, so I know that shouldn't be the case, so I'm assuming it's my D-Link WBR-2310 router that's causing the problem. I've tried port-forwarding with it, but I'm unable to attain a static IP address, which happens to be the very first step in port forwarding, so I don't know what to do. Can anyone give me any help with port-forwarding this, or send me any freeware programs that can do it automatically? Basically I just want to open up the ports for uTorrent and Limewire, so I can connect faster and get better connections.
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    2. 05-11-2008 10:17 PM #2
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      Don't you just need to enable certain ports? Port-forwarding is more for when you have a couple of systems on a network, and you want to say "port x on my router, as seen from the outside world, maps you to port y on computer a inside my network", etc.

      I typically don't allow my non-internet-based apps to communicate, since I don't trust the nature of the communication (plus most of the software I used to use that did that, I didn't exactly purchase hehe).
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    3. 05-12-2008 01:14 AM #3
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      Oh, ok. So how do I enable those ports?
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      Actually port forwarding might work fine, since you just forward to the same port number

      On my D-Link, I click on the "advanced" tab, go to "virtual server" if not already there, and create a new entry.
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      Might also just be Vista (if you have it).

      Blocked all tcp/icmp on default. :/
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      Quote Originally Posted by Replicon View Post
      Actually port forwarding might work fine, since you just forward to the same port number

      On my D-Link, I click on the "advanced" tab, go to "virtual server" if not already there, and create a new entry.
      How do you get to that menu where you can click the "advanced" tab?
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      Quote Originally Posted by Bayside View Post
      How do you get to that menu where you can click the "advanced" tab?
      Your router runs a webserver. You can browse to it, usually at http://192.168.0.1

      If you haven't changed it yet (shame), the username/password is admin/admin.
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    8. 05-18-2008 03:15 AM #8
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      Ah, sweet, I was having trouble with getting the port forwarding to work properly, so I just let my computer go into DMZ mode, and now everything runs smoothly. Thanks for the help.
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