Static IP acheived; still can't get an open port.

[MouseWrites]

I followed all the advice I was given and did get a static IP. Thank you so much!

I followed the portforwarding.com page, and I belive I have correctly forwarded my ports.

However, I still get an error on the Test to see if Port is forwarded correctly.

Any hints?

Thanks

System Details:

*Red circle instead of the green one in the status bar.

*I have Quest DSL.

*WinXP

*dslreports speedtest: 340 / 351.

*Cnet's speedtest: DLing at 1180.9 Kbps

*ActionTec DSL modem GT701 going to a Dlink DI524 (f/w 1.21) wireless router.

*Windows Firewall, with an exception for uTorrent and Port 11143

Qwest does throttle some P2P traffic, but I don't think that is my current problem. When I had just the actionTec up (before we put the wireless on) it worked ok and I had the green ball of happiness.

Since I am still having trouble, but it's no longer related to the Dynamic IP, I thought I'd change subject lines. Let me know if this isn't ok.

[Ultima]

You're double-NATted, as the ActionTec and the D-Link are both routers. You have to forward the ports to the router's IP from the modem, and then forward that to your computer, or you have to set your modem to bridge mode.

[MouseWrites]

Ok, I think I understand what I need to do... but not quite how to do it.

The computer, the modem, and the router all have IP adresses, yes? So, in the modem, I need to set the port forwarding to the router's IP?

I'm sorry to be so ignorant of the process. I'm trying to learn.

Thanks,

mouse

[Ultima]

Depends on how you look at it. From the outside (the Internet), they're all located at one IP address, yes. But inside the network, they have different LAN IP addresses.

Anything connected to the modem to obtain Internet access is in the modem's subnet (subnetwork). Anything that's connected to the router to get to the modem is in the router's subnet. So your router is on your modem's subnet, and you're on your router's subnet. You have to forward the ports from your modem to your router, using the router's IP address on the modem's subnet. Then from there, you have to forward the ports from your router to your computer.

[MouseWrites]

... Wow.

Feeling stupid just reading that.

Ok, so, to summerize:

I need to get my routers IP and set up port forwarding on my modum. THEN I need to get my computer's IP and set up port forwarding (which portforwarding.com has me do as a virtual server) to my computer.

Is that even remotely right?

Also, I just noticed that the IP that the computer is pinging when I do a port check from uTorrent isn't even remotely any of the ips I've seen. Is this just a function of my external IP being different, or do I have to take this into account somewhere?

Again, I appologise for being ignorant.

[Ultima]

Yes, you've got that right, and don't apologize, everyone starts off not understanding. At least you're trying to grasp the idea

The IP you see when doing a port check is your WAN IP -- the IP everyone on the Internet sees. What you see is everything on your LAN.

[MouseWrites]

Well, I did all of that.

I'm getting ok speeds now (one torrent went though at 150k, so any other slow speeds are just what's gonna happen) and some people are dling from me.

My little ball is still red, but oh well, I guess.

Thanks for all your help.

Mouse

[Ultima]

Can you set the modem to bridge mode? Maybe that might help... before you do that, check your modem to see if there are PPPoE settings you want to copy down, and then do that. If, after setting it to bridge mode, you find you can't connect to the Internet, try putting the PPPoE settings in your router.

[MouseWrites]

To get me online, the isp put me on PPPoA.

If I put it on bridge, OR change to pppoe, I loose my connection.

[Ultima]

Can you configure the PPPoA settings in your router to match the settings in the modem? AFAIK, it's just an alternative that gets around some of the PPPoE issues.

[MouseWrites]

In my router I don't get the choice to go to pppoa.

I have:

*Dynamic IP Address

*Static IP Address

*PPPoE

and then two that are for other countries.

Man, I hate to be such a pest...

[Ultima]

Ugh, I'm not sure what you can do about it then =T

Edit: Eh I see you're getting help from DWK on #utorrent...

[MouseWrites]

Yup, trying to.

Thanks for being so helpful.

Le sigh. Man, there's no reason this should be so hard... but my god you guys have gone out of your way to help noobs.

[Ultima]

You're welcome

The problem is that you have PPPoA, which is (IINM) not as widely used as PPPoE, so if you can't get your router to log in for you, I'm not sure how else you can do it across the network.