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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's avatar
    peteytesting
    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

I got the same problem with my Orbi in router mode running firmware V1.11.0.20.  I configured Port Forwarding with port 25565 for Minecraft and IP address of my son's Win10 PC running Minecraft server, but outside-in access of this server using the proper public IP address does not work.  Only access from local network ("localhost") works.  I also tried enabling DMZ for my son's PC but it is still no good.  I even rebooted the Orbi but it made no difference.

 

Is Port Forwarding known to work in router mode?  Are there additional settings within Orbi configuration needed to get Port Forwarding to work?  I cannot change my Orbi to AP mode as my Arris cable modem does not have router functionality.

 

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peteytesting
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Jul 10, 2017

if you are port forwarding you need to disable UPnP

  • scan80269's avatar
    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...