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Cannot receive connections on any ports.

Aug 18, 2016 10:09PM PDT

Hello.
I"ve been having the weirdest trouble with ports for a while now and tried many things to host servers for Minecraft, Ark, Empyrion and even just hosting a Warcraft3 game wont work. I test to see if my ports are opened from the following websites:
www.canyouseeme.org/
www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/
They both say that any ports are closed in each and everything I've tried. So here's what I did so far. It's impossible that it wont work with all the different things I tried so if you have any clue please let me know.
Last year, I lived at a different address with the following hardware:
-ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP @n Motherboard
-Videotron 60Mbps connection
-Zyxel router provided by my ISP
-Ethernet connection using the motherboard network adapter
-Windows 7
The rest shouldn't matter but do ask more info if needed.
What I tried:
-Opening the ports on my router
-Turning off Anti virus and Firewall (let them off for all further tests)
-Setting my computer's IP as a DMZ
-Connecting with Ethernet direct to the modem

Couldn't get it to work at all. Now, I have changed my hardware AND am not at the same address (could have been some weird rooting... who knows). Here is my current hardware:
-ASUS Z97-PRO GAMER
-Same internet connection and router but different physical equipment.
-Ethernet connection using the motherboard network adapter
-Windows 10
I did the same tests, forwarding ports to the router, making my computer a DMZ, plugging direct to the modem all while having my anti virus and windows firewall off.
Those were done with two different computers (different mobo) at two different addresses with different windows. How is that even possible? Anyone has an idea? I have done some port forwarding years ago when playing Warcraft 3 but even that doesn't seem to work.

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Looks like this ISP blocks ports.
Aug 19, 2016 9:14AM PDT
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Known about it
Aug 19, 2016 10:04AM PDT

I actually work at videotron technical support so I do know the blocked ports. In my case I'm trying the ports 30000, 6112, 6113, 27150 and none work. Bideotron only blocks the ports for http, imap, smtp and a few others used for commercial use.

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Given the story
Aug 19, 2016 10:23AM PDT

You have to test it on another ISP. I find that my cell phone works for such tests.

Nothing you wrote tells me it's your gear or settings. Unless you left out something.

For example, I found a few firewalls still block when disabled. That was really annoying.

Plus if Videotron tech support is stumped, that's a sign. Not a good one.

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Will try exceptions
Aug 19, 2016 12:19PM PDT

A buddy at work also reccomended that I make exceptions in both wi dows firewall and nod32 firewall even though they are off because they may still block them as you mentioned. I completely overlooked that fact. I will try tonight and post the results

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Here's my finding.
Aug 19, 2016 12:30PM PDT

The Windows Firewall when off is off. I've never run into a situation where off was not off. I have found ZoneAlarm, Mcafee and another to still block when their firewall was disabled. Really strange but responses from the companies never came back so I take it as a sign of shoddy work.

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New data
Aug 19, 2016 9:19PM PDT

I tried to forward the port 6112 to my phone and saw something interesting happen. On http://www.canyouseeme.org/ I get the message "Reason: Connection refused" instead of "Reason: Connection timed out" when it is forwarded to my PC.
I will try and format a HDD that is laying around and install a windows 7 on it and do the test with a fresh windows with no software what so ever.

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And I think it's a success!
Aug 23, 2016 10:13AM PDT

I finally got one port open! The 6112 successfully broadcasted on the outside and was seen. Not sure what I did differently but it probably had to do with the windows firewall exception that I changed again and again....
Thanks for the help!