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jbalaski
Neighbour
2 years ago

Port forwarding Technicolour NH20T

I've been trying to open a port to run a server from my computer. From what I understand, it's as simple as going into "WAN Services", clicking show advanced, and adding the port. Unfortunately, the ...
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kabug
Friendly Neighbour
2 years ago
Hi I've been trying to port forward a game server on a new desktop I have but even though it's locally accessible at that port, people externally aren't able to connect. The weird thing is if I move the game server to another desktop I have, and change the destination IP in the firewall rules it works. Does anyone have any ideas what could be the cause?
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kabug
Friendly Neighbour
2 years ago

I have not set up the dhcp settings on the router, I just assigned the static ip on the pc itself. I'll try that 🙂

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    xray
    Hero
    2 years ago

    If you don't reserve the IP in the DHCP server then it doesn't know it's taken and may assign it to another device.

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      kabug
      Friendly Neighbour
      2 years ago

      I've assigned it in the dhcp settings and double checked the firewall to see if that's blocking it but it all looks fine. It's still not working though on that desktop 😕

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