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I've been trying to portforward on myhuawei 523a router and I've tried everything and every website i go to says that the port is closed or connection timed out.
I've even installed a program called 'simple port forwarding' where it does it automatically and that doesn't even work. I'm so frustrated that nothing will work and I'm seriously about to murder my grandma.
ANY help will be seriously appreciated.
thank you !
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Two things:
1: We have absolutely no idea what you have tried because you skimped on the details
1a: I have serious doubts about any software program being able to affect changes on a router unless it was designed specifically for that router
2: The part a lot of people forget is that you need to have some program actively listening on a specific port to effectively test whether or not the port is properly forwarded
2a: For example, if I wanted to run my own SMTP server, I would need to not only forward TCP Port 25 but make sure the SMTP server was running and listening for traffic on TCP Port 25
2b: You need to know if you should forward UDP ports, TCP ports or both
Networking can become very complex very fast if you don't have at least a foundation in the basics. If you don't know the difference between TCP and UDP, for example, you're going to have a difficult time troubleshooting port forwarding if it doesn't work the first time.
As an added bonus, yes we know you were joking, but it's probably not a good idea to even joke about murdering someone. All too many people out there with absolutely no sense of humor or these idiotic "zero tolerance" laws where all the flexibility that is the entire point of legal systems based off english common law.
I have gone through the bog standard, adding a custom port, the protocol that ive been using is TCP/UDP
the external start port and external end port are the same numbers etc
Ive used mulitple youtube tutorials and have followed them exactly, i still cant work out whats wrong.
ive used programs and websites to listen for the port, they all say its closed.
Look at the program i talked about, you log into your router through the program, thats how it inputs for you, its a more simple way of doing it, as i thought if i was missing something then the program might correct it.
And if people dont have a sense of humour then thats their problem lol,
Any ideas on what i need to do to get the ports open.
Ive tried disabling firewalls too and it doesnt seem to make a difference.
Cheers
Ok, it could be a lot of things. Program / port number would be very helpful. I.e. Filezilla (ftp - port 21). If your opening the port on your myhuawei 523a (I assume it's given to you by your ISP). you can call them and make them tell you.
In my FTP example it could be that your forwarding the port on your router but not your computer. It could be windows firewall - or some other security software blocking it.
if your trying to trouble shoot blocked ports - start close and move out. try to connect / telnet to the port on local host, then your internal ip (i.e. 192.168.1.x) then your external IP.
sounds like there is something on your computer that is blocking it.
hope that helps.
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