Please help. Have worked on this for a whole day now.

[Boxgoblin]

Ok so yesterday morning I started to attempt to port forward. Now its a new morning and I still cannot get this to work. I started off trying to forward a port for Bitcomet though my router, windows firewall, and avg firewall. After getting bashed in another forum. I went from using Bitcomet to now using uTorrent. As well as not using the windows firewall. Currently the AVG firewall is disabled as well. Now before I went to the other forum I had gone through tuts on port forwarding and I believe I set it up correctly on my router and firewalls. Still no luck. Here are my specs.

Westell Wind River dsl modem/router --> Linksys WRT54GS Wireless router -->
Toshiba Satellite A105-s4244 Laptop

ipconfig /all gives me this

IP Address: 192.168.5.10

Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway: 192.168.5.1

DNS Servers 192.168.1.254

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As I said I have followed good tuts on port forwarding.
In my router setup I have forwarded the port needed to IP: 192.168.5.10 to no effect. After bashing me someone on another forum told me I did it wrong and needed to learn how to bridge my router to my modem and setup dhcp. Aslo that I was using two NATS or being NATed twice. I have looked it up online and I have called my tech support for linksys which of course ended up being a waste of an hour. Please could someone walk me through this. Thank you in advance.

 

[RebateMonger]

How is the Linksys router hooked up? Are you using the WAN port on that router at all? It sounds like you are. Put a piece of tape over the Linksys' WAN port and just use the LAN ports. Assign the an appropriate IP address/subnet to the Linksys LAN side (so you can easily reach it from your network if necessary) and disable the Linksys' DHCP server.

 

[Boxgoblin]

Not sure what a WAN port is. The modem is connected to a port on the back of the router marked Ethernet and then there are four empty ports for computers and such. Are you telling me to unhook the modem from the Ethernet port and run it through one of the four other ports?

 

[Boxgoblin]

I am assuming that that is what your telling me to do as far as the WAN goes. Here are some pics of my settings and options. Think you could be a little more specific please I am not very good at this obviously. Thank you.


http://i74.photobucket.com/alb...xgoblin/RouterPic1.jpg

http://i74.photobucket.com/alb...xgoblin/RouterPic2.jpg

http://i74.photobucket.com/alb...xgoblin/RouterPic3.jpg

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: Boxgoblin
Are you telling me to unhook the modem from the Ethernet port and run it through one of the four other ports?

Yes. On the Linksys, the single port is the WAN port and shouldn't be used in your application.

I'm "guessing" that 192.168.1.254 is the IP address of the internal (LAN) side of your Westel DSL modem/router. If that's the case, set the internal (LAN) side of your Linksys to 192.168.1.253/255.255.255.255, turn off the Linksys DHCP service, and hook the Westel and all of your PCs up to the four LAN ports of the Linksys.

 

[Boxgoblin]

Here is a pic of my router STATUS. http://i74.photobucket.com/alb...xgoblin/RouterPic4.jpg

Does this help at all?

 

[JackMDS]

Right now you proably have double Routing.

1 The Modem/Router

2. The Router.

What to do?

Option 1. If possible configure the Modem/Router as a Modem only and use the Linksys as the main Router.

Open the ports in the Linksys only.

Option 2. Leave the Modem/Router as is and configure the Linksys as an Access Point

Wireless Router as an Access Point - http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

Open the ports in the Modem/Router only.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: Boxgoblin
Here is a pic of my router STATUS. http://i74.photobucket.com/alb...xgoblin/RouterPic4.jpg

Does this help at all?

Not much. It looks just like I figured it'd look like. But thanks for going to the trouble of posting it.

As JackMDS suggests, you'll vastly increase your chance of success by having only a single router in your data path. Either disable routing in the Westel Modem/Router (running it in Transparent Bridging Mode) or simply don't use the WAN port on the Linksys router (as I suggested earlier).

Oh, and whichever router you decide to "keep" is where you'll set up Port Forwarding.

 

[Boxgoblin]

Oh wow. This has been an adventure. After several hours of phone tech support. Its done. haha All of this and it was a matter of setting my modem/router from ppoepepp or whatever to bridge and then changing my router to ppoppepp. Fixed and all it took was hours on the phone with people who dont speak english. Thanks for all the support here. I wouldnt had know where to start. This would have been easer if I had been able to connect to the modem/routers ip for the settings. I was never able to do it and evidently it was because I was not using the right ip for the modem/router. Thanks again guys. btw my download speeds went from 25kbs to 110kbs just like that.

 

[bruceb]

By doing that, you in effect configured the Modem/Router as just a Modem
which is what Jack was trying to get across earlier. Now only your Router
connected after the Modem is doing the job of a Router as it should.

 

[JackMDS]

Boxgoblin, I am glad that the problem is solved. :thumbsup:

Originally posted by: bruceb
By doing that, you in effect configured the Modem/Router as just a Modem
which is what Jack was trying to get across earlier. Now only your Router
connected after the Modem is doing the job of a Router as it should.

I have the feeling that at times our help does not really when the OPs do not have the basic network vocabulary to understand the options and what to do about it.

Unfortunately we can Not turn posts into book long Network 101.

 

[kevnich2]

This has nothing to do with this post at all but the problem I see with some of the posts here is that people get this equipment, don't read any of the instructions, don't use google at all and then post on here almost demanding help trying to do something and most things can be solved by either searching for it here or on Google. Again, that has nothing to do with the OP here just something I've noticed.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: kevnich2
This has nothing to do with this post at all but the problem I see with some of the posts here is that people get this equipment, don't read any of the instructions, don't use google at all and then post on here almost demanding help trying to do something and most things can be solved by either searching for it here or on Google. Again, that has nothing to do with the OP here just something I've noticed.

Hah. I like it best when the poster also adds, "This is a simple problem.....". And then swears at you for suggesting an alternative approach that may be better. :roll:

 

[Turkish]

I hope you got your issue solved but if you are still having problems, it is likely that you need to double port forward.

If you have a modem with no wireless capability and a router with a wireless capability, you need to hard-wire to your modem and use its web-interface to forward ports to your router's IP address assigned by the modem. Then you need to disable the firewall of your wireless router and forward those ports from your router to your PC's IP (assigned by the router). As I said, you can just turn off your router's firewall as your modem already has one built-in.

Good luck.

 

[Boxgoblin]

Thanks again for the help. I wasn't trying to be demanding . . . sorry if I was.

I understood what was being said however I was at the time unable to log onto my modem/routers web interface. That was my issue and it was because I didn't know my modems proper ip addy. Easy fix. Thanks

Since all of that has happened I have been getting Event 50 and 57 a ton. I am going to post about this somewhere else but it did start when I completed the setup for the router. Any ideas?