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RBR350 - Port Forwarding issue
Hi all, I am trying to host a content manager server so my friends and I can play, but I am having considerable difficulties. I have done it once before and managed to get it working but not sure w...
Hi all,
Just thought I'd let everyone know, after speaking with my ISP, they have assigned me a static IP and it all works good now.
The most common cause of port forwarding issues is having "two routers" (often called "Double NAT") when the ISP device is a router and the Orbi is in 'router mode'. Since the PS5 forwarding appears to be open, that is probably not the case here.
Another is that Windows has separate rules for private and public networks. It might be worth ruling out the Windows Firewall by disabling the Firewall (temporarily) to see if that makes the forwarding successful.
Thanks for the reply, I have already tested with the windows firewall disabled for all networks and it made no difference unfortunately.
How are you testing for open ports? (using one of the web sites, "is this port open?")
Since starting the server immediately causes an error, this might be something to ask about in the forum for the Content Server.
Yep, using the below two websites.
I have asked the question on Reddit as Content Manager has no official forum, but none of the suggestions worked for me.
Just annoying me as I do this for work on the daily, port forwarding to VOIP servers, but cant get it working for myself haha.
another suggestion is to put the Content Server in the Orbi router "DMZ". I see a LOT of posts about this issue (but am not certain they relate to the same software).