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jrswanson91
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Oct 15, 2015
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WNDR3400v2+WN2500RPv2 Port Forwarding

I hope someone can help, I am trying to establish port forwarding to my home server from outside my LAN. I have the WNDR3400v2 router with the WN2500RPv2 extender connected to it. I am trying to esta...
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  • jrswanson91's avatar
    jrswanson91
    Oct 29, 2015

    ElaineM 

     

    Thank you for all your help, I have solved this problem. FINALLY! The problem was my firewall and anti-virus. Once I provided rules to accept all incoming traffic and turned off my antivirus, all works well! That was very grueling and time consuming. The portforwarding works from the modem to the router through the extender to the pc and it works. 

     

    Thank you again for trying to help.

  • ElaineM's avatar
    ElaineM
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Oct 19, 2015

    Welcome to the community, jrswanson91

     

    How is the WN2500RP connected to the router? Wired or wirelessly?

    Have you tried connecting that pc with 192.168.1.10 be connected to the router directly and see if the ports are open for it?

    Is the WNR2500RP correctly configured? Do you have internet access through it?

    The WNR2500RP will not have Port Forwarding feature because it's just a range extender. It is correct that you have opened the port on the router since it's the main connection and routers have that feature.

    • jrswanson91's avatar
      jrswanson91
      Aspirant
      Oct 19, 2015

      Thank you for your response ElaineM! The wn2500RP is connected wirelessly to the router. It is also set up correctly as I can reach the internet. I have not tried connecting the PC to the router directly, because it would take a rather long ethernet cord which is what I am trying to avoid. Thats why I am wondering if the router sends the incoming traffic to the extender and then drops it rather than the pc directly through the extender?

      • ElaineM's avatar
        ElaineM
        NETGEAR Employee Retired
        Oct 20, 2015

        You're welcome.

        This troubleshooting will not be easy.

        It's best to isolate at this point to figure out which one has a problem (router or extender).

        I know it would be a pain to have it directly connected but it's one way for us to find out whether it's really opening the port or not.

        Looks like that there's no problem with the extender cause you can get online with it. It's simply working like a switch, everything passes through it as expected.

        By the way, what is the port that you have forwarded? Can you use a laptop to test this?