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Trying to forward Port

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thecidsound

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I need someone's help forwarding a port for UTorrent. I've follow the tut at Portforward.com. I have a Netgear WGR614 v6 router. Once I enter in everything in the port forward settings, it says "Server IP address must be a LAN IP address."
 
Sounds like the address you entered (192.168.0.3) is not in the address range you assigned to the LAN. On one of the other pages there should be some mention of your LAN addressing settings. Get a screen of those.
 
Your addresses are misconfigured. Take a look at what you've got and try to understand why it won't work rather than just trust me. Here are your current settings:

Port Forward to: 192.168.0.3
Router LAN IP: 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
DHCP Range: 192.168.1.2-51

Your router's address is 192.168.1.1. The 255's in the subnet mask are telling it which numbers should stay the same on LAN addresses. So by using 255.255.255.0, you're telling the router that the other LAN computers are at 192.168.1.? where only the "?" can change. See the problem? You're telling the router to forward a port to 192.168.0.3, which it doesn't think should be on the LAN.

More sensible settings would be to set your desktop machine to use a static address of 192.168.1.2, then set the router as something like:

Port forward to: 192.168.1.2
Router LAN IP: 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
DHCP Range: 192.168.1.3-50
 
Ok when i changed my IP 192.168.1.2 it said that it is already assigned to my router. And said that if both have the same IP when theyre both active only one will use the IP address.
 
Originally posted by: thecidsound
Ok when i changed my IP 192.168.1.2 it said that it is already assigned to my router.
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No, that's not what it says. It's a pretty detailed error message - read it again.

 
Originally posted by: thecidsound
I forgot I use to have a USB wireless dongle. But i dont use it anymore.
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Well, it's not going to be causing any address conflicts then, is it? So go ahead and assign the address like you were doing and tell Windows to stuff it when it complains.

 
Did you do an ipconfig from command prompt to get your Default Gate and LAN IP?

That's what I recommend starting with. I see the DHCP is set to start at 192.168.0.3, but on the most recent screenie, you're trying to port IP 192.168.0.2
 
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