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thereverend2u
Aspirant
May 13, 2020

Night hawk X6 R8000 - Opening ALL ports

I would like to OPEN all ports on my router and simply use it as a SMART switch that dishes out Internal IP addresses. NO port filtering at all. JUST want it WIDE OPEN. It seems to not like FTP trans...
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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
May 14, 2020

Please post about this here for your model router:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/bd-p/home-wifi-routers-nighthawk

Good Luck.

thereverend2u wrote:

I would like to OPEN all ports on my router and simply use it as a SMART switch that dishes out Internal IP addresses. NO port filtering at all. JUST want it WIDE OPEN. It seems to not like FTP transfers very much so I need and want to just open her wide up and let all ports be open to all computers on my network. HOW DO I DO THIS?

 

Thank you in advance.