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fruitypigy
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Feb 12, 2017
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Orbi Portforwarding Not Working

I reccently got a new orbi router and have been having issues with portforwarding. I just tried making a minecraft server and everything is fine but something with the port forwarding is wrong. I use...
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    peteytesting
    Jul 10, 2017

    if you are port forwarding you need to disable UPnP

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Jul 10, 2017

if you are port forwarding you need to disable UPnP

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scan80269
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Jul 10, 2017

Thanks for the tip!  After disabling UPnP and rechecking the Port Forwarding settings, I also temporarily disabled McAfee firewall in my son's PC before the Minecraft server finally tested working from my router's public IP address.  Yay!

 

My son is debating whether to uninstall McAfee LiveSafe or just disable Net Guard (open firewall exceptions) for all the executables involved with Minecraft server...