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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 don...
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.
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
Btw, you may need to set NAT filtering to Open. That may solve your issue. I completely forgot about that one since I'm on Tomato and haven't used stock firmware for quite a while