Port troubles

[LSR]

I have a Belkin F5D5231-4 router.

The troubles I am having with it regards port forwarding; I'm trying to get a game working, and nothing I try has any effect at all on the end result.

I tried fiddling around with the settings, and using Shields UP!! to test my system, but the results confuse me completely.

Router Default Settings : All ports stealthed bar port 515
Router instructed to make my IP a DMZ - excluded from firewall : Most ports closed, 5 or 6 ports open.

Router at default, instructed to open certain ports : All stealthed bar port 515
Router DMZd, instructed to open certain ports : Most ports closed, 5 or 6 ports open.


However I instruct it to open particular ports, it doesn't seem to heed me.
UPnP also doesn't have any effect on the game itself, I always get the same error message - 'connectivity issues'.

For the record, my internet works perfectly browsing the web.

 

[Dropkickmurphys]

have you tried using PortForward.com

it helps when trying to use port forwarding, you just pick the program and router model and it'll take you through step-by-step doing it. it might help with something you may have missed

 

[LSR]

have you tried using PortForward.com

it helps when trying to use port forwarding, you just pick the program and router model and it'll take you through step-by-step doing it. it might help with something you may have missed

Yeah, I used that to try and help set it up in the first place..
No luck with it, though.

 

[Dropkickmurphys]

so youre saying you have set the ports to open, but it keeps them closed?

 

[LSR]

so youre saying you have set the ports to open, but it keeps them closed?

Almost exactly...
Well, confusingly, when within the firewall, all it does it keeps the status the same. The ports set to be 'open' stay 'stealthed.

When my computer is placed outside the firewall, the ports set to 'open' are 'closed'.

 

[Dropkickmurphys]

well, all that happens when the ports are "stealthed" is they wont respond to a ping. i think.

are you sure youre forwarding the ports to your computer? and have you tried opening the ports with your computer outside of the firewall?

 

[LSR]

well, all that happens when the ports are "stealthed" is they wont respond to a ping. i think.

are you sure youre forwarding the ports to your computer? and have you tried opening the ports with your computer outside of the firewall?

To the first part; alright, if that's true then I'm chasing a red herring.. I was just wondering whether switching the ports to 'open' would make it work.

And opening the ports with my computer outside the firewall gives me a 'closed' message - it doesn't seem the port forwarding works..

 

[Dropkickmurphys]

yes, i think swtiching hte ports to open... to your computer should work...