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orbi1973
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Aug 24, 2020
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Port forwarding with bridged modem

Hi, i am writing this here after being on hold with Netgear support for more than an hour. I hope someone can help.

 

I purchased an Orbi RBR50 AC3000 router a few weeks back.  The router is connected to my Bell DSL modem, which is set on bridgemode. On my Orbi, under advanced setup, port fowarding, i've gone and added port 9999 in both external and internal ports.  The protocall is TCP (i've also tried TCP/UDP).  Port is  192.168.3.250.  (I had set my Orbi gateway to 192.168.3.1).  

 

When i go to https://www.canyouseeme.org/ and check for my port 9999, it's telling me it's not open.  

 

Does anyone know what i am doing wrong?  Any help here would be very much appreciated.

 

  • thank you both for your response. I was able to get port fowarding working.  I had another router that was connected to my Obri that was then connected to the CCTV box. I put that router on AP mode. It was in regular router mode before and I believe that was probably what was causing the ping to fail. Thanks again.