kob Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Hello,I'm sorry I don't even know where to begin asking questions...my OS is Windows XP Home. I run McAffee and have a personal firewall setup. At one point (versions may have changed since then) I had setup uTorrent, with my port number, as exceptions. Long story short - I seem to have tried all the suggestions on this site for proper port forwarding but with no success...But then I saw, when I run ipconfig, I have a specific IP address (10.x.x.x) and when I run the speed guide port warding tool (which ALWAYS says my port is not forwarded properly), it thinks my IP address is a 68.x.x.x number. How is that posssible, and why does uTorrent think I'm a different IP than I am...because certianly my port will not be forwarded correctly if it is looking for it in a different IP domian.I'm confused. Any suggestions?Thank you.Doohopper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 10.x.x.x is your private LAN IP address. 68.x.x.x is your public WAN IP address. They are different, and it's supposed to be that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kob Posted December 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 ok, then how do i correctly forward my port? i have followed the Portforward.com directions, made my port static and made that port open on my router configuration (NAT). My router is SMC2404wbr. i know this is a common question, however, i believe i have followed all the instructions suggested here and on Portforward.com and it still isn't working. interestingly enough, upload and download bandwidth don't suffer too much. help... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 What modem are you using? Have you set McAfee up properly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kob Posted December 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Modem is Comcast (SMC 8013WG) connecting to a router SMC 2404WBR. McAfee has uTorrent application as an exception in the Firewall setup (i.e. uTorrent has full access to the internet). Router setup has ip address and static port for UDP and TCP open. Can't do the same for the modem because it is owned by Comcast and I can't access the setup page. How does the WAN number (68.x.x.x) get translated to the correct LAN number (10.x.x.x) so the proper port is forwarded? Sorry for all these questions, but I tried doing it on my own...and hasn't worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 The WAN IP gets translated to LAN IP because that's exactly what a NAT (network address translator) does. And your router and/or modem does NAT. If you can't gain access to your modem+router configuration, there's not much we can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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