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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.
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.
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.