Having Router Issues

Defiant336Defiant336
edited September 2009 in Science & Tech
Hey everyone not sure if anyone knows but am having issues with either my router or DSL modem. Everytime I start to search for a group or party I receive a message stating that due to firewalls or NAT settings I will have a limited connection. I have certain friends I cannot join in while playing and we are on seperate networks. I am assuming its due to my firewalls. The router is a belkin wireless router and the Modem is through my DSL provider. I have called Belkin and supposedly the router has all firewalls diabled. Its been like this for a while and not sure what else to do. Any help will be appreciated.

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  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Is this for a console or your computer? It sounds like you need to forward some ports through your router so they can connect cleanly.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited September 2009
    On your router you should have a setting for automatic port-forwarding, may also be called plug 'n play or PnP. If that is enabled, then you shouldn't generally have any problems from the router point of view. What that does is open up whatever port is being used when it's first used and then disable it afterwards. However if you have 2 computers for example and computer A opens up the port first then that port forwarding rule will point to Computer A. If Computer B then tries to connect using the same port it will not work correctly because the port forwarding rule is still pointing to A.
  • Defiant336Defiant336
    edited September 2009
    Snarkasm wrote:
    Is this for a console or your computer? It sounds like you need to forward some ports through your router so they can connect cleanly.


    Its for a console (XBOX 360). I have never had this problem on my Computer. I will try this and see what happens. Thanks for your help!!
  • Defiant336Defiant336
    edited September 2009
    kryyst wrote:
    On your router you should have a setting for automatic port-forwarding, may also be called plug 'n play or PnP. If that is enabled, then you shouldn't generally have any problems from the router point of view. What that does is open up whatever port is being used when it's first used and then disable it afterwards. However if you have 2 computers for example and computer A opens up the port first then that port forwarding rule will point to Computer A. If Computer B then tries to connect using the same port it will not work correctly because the port forwarding rule is still pointing to A.


    This makes alot of sense but do I need to disable the automatic port forwarding and manually set these? If so how do I do this? The reason it makes sense I have my desktop connected in port A and the XBox plugged to port B. Not sure if it matters but but I also have a couple wireless connections running off this router also.

    Thanks for the info and your time!!
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited September 2009
    Port forwarding really doesn't have anything to do with the physical ports your devices are connected to. It's referring to the internet term for a Port. A port is a way of further differentiating an IP request over the internet. On a router it allows you to split off where certain types of traffic requests go.

    So a PORT rule on a router is a rule that sends specific type of information to a given internal IP number, it doesn't mater which plug that computer is connected to or even if it's wireless. It just looks for the IP of that connected device.

    So what port forwarding does is create a rule that says if I get a request from the internet on a specific PORT (4550 for example) then I always send that information to this computer (which is the IP of a specific computer in your network).

    In old days you manually had to create these PORT forwarding rules. On newer modems with PnP when your computer sends a request to the net on a non-standard PORT the router automatically creates the rule for you.

    So to answer your question make sure that your router has PnP enabled and that there are no static port forwarding rules created. You'll have to get into the configuration settings for your router to check that.

    However it's also possible that your computer has a firewall enabled. If it's windows XP, Vista or 7 that's on by default. You can disable that firewall by going into start>run and typing in services.msc
    That will bring up a list of services scroll down to the bottom and look for Windows Internet Sharing and Firewall. If the status says started, right click on it and stop it.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    This should help as well, if the UPnP doesn't.
    you can try to open the following ports:

    * TCP 80
    * UDP 88
    * UDP 3074
    * TCP 3074
    * UDP 53
    * TCP 53
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