A few weeks ago I finally got the top DSL package with VMedia from Toronto, Ontario which is a huge upgrade in everything compared to Cogeco here in Burlington.
VMedia is a great company so far in terms of getting back to me, but has no support when it comes to opening ports apparently. =|
So now I'm here!
Been screwing around with this damn modem the last few days. On cable, I had no issues with ports - just opened them up on my router, and away we went. This Smartrg SR505N is a pain in the butt.
So far I've tried this:
- Going into Advanced Setup -> Nat -> Virtual Servers -> I set up a new option for the ports:
Selected 'Custom Service' and typed in RiskOfRain (the game I'm try to run on my server), and figured that the missing digit for 'Server IP Address' is the address of the computer. The default ports for Risk of Rain is 11100, but I changed it to 5320. Put that number into the External Port Start, External Port End, selected the TCP/UDP protocol, and the Internal Port Start and End were auto filled in with 5320.
Now I would have thought that worked, but going into the game, it says that the port is still closed. Running a port checker from »
www.yougetsignal.com/too ··· n-ports/ shows that all my ports are closed except for 21, 22, 23 and 80. If I bridge the modem to the router (which is a Cisco that I've had no problems with) only 80 is open. I did set the modem up as a DMZ Host as well to try that, no luck.
- All firewalls are shut off on the modem.
- Didn't seem to have any luck with Port Triggering either. Tried the same as above.
I took the router out of the connection for now. Figure soon as the modem is corrected, the router will be a piece of cake.
Does anyone know how to do an easy step by step process to open my ports up?
I'm running Windows 7, SmartRG SR505N modem. Hooked straight up to my desktop. I've shut off Windows Firewall just to make sure nothing funky was happening, and no luck there.
Thanks everyone.