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Unable to forward ANY ports
19-07-2017 1:07 PM - edited 19-07-2017 1:23 PM
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I'm having a nightmare with port forwarding. Does Plusnet restrict anything at their end? I'm running out of ideas.
I have completely turned off all firewalls (PC and router), and opened ports on both my machine and my router (I have tried both the technicolor router and a new TP-LINK one). MY PC uses a 'reserved' IP so the ports are being forwarded to the correct place.
I have checked several guides and from what I can tell everything is set up perfectly.
Whatever I try when checking the ports using any third party tools I am told they are closed. This all started due to sever connection issues with Overwatch, and running their http://us-looking-glass.battle.net/ tool always shows 100% packet loss, no matter what I try.
So how do I get these darned ports open? Any body else gone through this pain and know any tricks I may be missing?
Re: Unable to forward ANY ports
19-07-2017 1:53 PM
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Don't know about now but plusnet did have a firewall at there end which was turned on by default to protect all customers.
If they still do this then you'll need to login to the member centre and turn it off.
Re: Unable to forward ANY ports
19-07-2017 1:59 PM
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I just checked and 'Broadband firewall' is off, as is 'SafeGuard'
Re: Unable to forward ANY ports
19-07-2017 1:59 PM
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I thought it was off by default?
It can be found at https://portal.plus.net/my.html?action=firewall
Re: Unable to forward ANY ports
19-07-2017 2:18 PM
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That may be the case now but previously it defaulted to on... causing problems for quite a few people when nit was suddenly introduced lol
Re: Unable to forward ANY ports
19-07-2017 2:27 PM
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It was a good thing to check as I hadn't - but it does't appear that any user controllable firewall is ON, on the PC, the router or the ISP...
If there are NO firewalls then shouldn't all the ports be wide open anyway? What else can I try?
Re: Unable to forward ANY ports
19-07-2017 4:58 PM
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Wide open no - thats a security risk and as far as i know ports are only opened by servers that bind to those ports on the socket.
What router do you have? - someone here may have ideas how to solve this.
Re: Unable to forward ANY ports
26-07-2017 11:04 PM
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What ports are you looking to open and specifically what router are you trying to use?
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