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Open ports yet again - Netgear R6200
Hi
I've had Windows 7 Ultimate for years and never had any issues opening ports on this router. I recently installed Windows 10 Pro, and today I wanted to open some new ports like I've always done, but no, just no. I've tried lots of solutions, and just ditched one after the other, and reset everything back to scratch.
I reset the router so it is fresh, and has the latest firmware(V1.0.1.56_1.0.43). Windows Defender, Windows Firewall and Windows Update services are all disabled and shut off. I even have Malwarebytes turned off while I check if my ports are opened or not. UPNP is enabled in the router. I have set static ip and I use my ISP's dns server adresses(I also tried automatic but no difference) I've checked and triplechecked my ipv4 adress before I portforward the ports I want to open. I even reboot the router after I've opened the ports, and checked my ipv4 adress yet again so it matched the one I typed for the ports.
Still all ports are blocked at these addresses http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports - http://portchecker.co/check - http://ping.eu/port-chk - (I also tried the software from portforward.com). Help please :smileyhappy:
I've been in a long chat with my ISP. The port checker program from portforward.com see all my ports as open now, so I will use that program in the future. These online services are not working as they should do obviously.
Problem solved.
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A port will appear open to these sites *only* when a service is actually listening on that port. For example, if you open, say, port 80 but don't have anything listening on it (a web server for example), when you check on these sites if that port is open, they will report it's closed. Now, if you start a server or another program that's listening on that port and if you go back to one of these sites and test again, they'll report it as open this time
I've never had to do that before, but I tried since you suggested it. It does not work. I even tried turning upnp off, and checked my ipv4 adress still was the same, and still nothing. I've hosted an online internet server in the game ARMA 3, and I checked the ports 2302 and 2303 which is for ARMA3. I also checked 3478, 4379, 4380 and 27000-27050 which should be for Steam.
Then you're doing something wrong somewhere and you don't provide much info either. Ports are forwarded on the router? is something listening on your PC on these ports?
I run a torrent client on port 7200 and here when it's running you can see that the site says port is open (reachable) - https://owncloud.teambelgium.net/index.php/s/rAtYRw9LaN1WPnp
If i shut down the client and test again, site says it's closed because nothing is listening on it despite the port being open - https://owncloud.teambelgium.net/index.php/s/OdSBCZ9BgxumEjW
- LivinFreeRider, microchip8 has a point. Your computer must respond on the forwarded ports in order for the online port checking services to work. The portforward program takes care of doing that in addition to working with a service on portforward.com's end to check the ports.
The online port checking services are still useful because they can check that the service you actually want to run on your computer is reachable. You can't do that with the portforward program because it's a proxy for your service. You may think there is no difference but including your service is a more complete end-to-end test.
