schiffer Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 I know this issue have been asked millions of times and I have read many threads considering the problem. However, although many of them are repetitive and easy to solve, mines are not so.I have a Westell 2200 modem and Linksys WRT54G router, I forward the ports on both of them and the utorrent was working great for a while until it suddenly crashed down and the port is closed again. With no notice whatsoever, there was no symptoms showing any sort of issue.I figured it was the firewall's problem and so I changed the software for about 4 times, each with the same result: the port is closed. Finally, I completely shut down my firewall, thinking it should be work now but no~~~ the port is still closed. I checked my modem and router... everything is fine.The only thing that I didn't do was setting up a Static IP for the router (getting stuck on the DNS server, the router page only show a bunch of 0s) but I never set up the static ip and yet my port have always been open.This issued happened countless of times, each happen without a noticed and solved with a change of the firewall. But this time... I'm stucked. Help anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 For testing purposes, try connecting your computer directly to the modem. Is the port still closed? Also, is there any reason you don't just enable bridge mode on the modem instead of double-forwarding the port? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schiffer Posted September 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 I haven't, my router and modem are behind a series of wires and plugs would be a pain in the ass to go through, so I kind of making that option as last reserve.You must know this issue does not linger, I mean, it does not exist previously. It just happened. One day is working fine and the next is not. I know I have forward the ports cause I saw them working, saw the green light, saw it the other hundred of times this thing happened and got it fixed (by changing the firewall, which as I had mentioned before, didn't work this time around). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 4, 2008 Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 Also, is there any reason you don't just enable bridge mode on the modem instead of double-forwarding the port?If you don't/can't set a static IP for your router on your modem's subnet, then you're trying to forward a port from the modem to a moving target. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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