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Aspirant

Jan 25, 2017

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Port Forwarding Problems on Netgear Nighthawk R6700

I've been trying to forward ports on my Netgear R6700. V1.0.1.16_10.0.30 I have an Arris 6183 modem. After playing around for several hours last night I managed to get it to work, but I had t...

port forwarding

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evmoore
Feb 23, 2017

I managed to get the ports forwarded in the past few ago (finally). Thanks everyone for the assistance.

ElaineM

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jan 26, 2017

Welcome to the community, evmoore

You may use Address Reservation feature on the router if you want those computers to have a static IP address assigned to it.

See the link below on how to configure Address Reservation.

How do I reserve an IP address on my NETGEAR router?

evmoore
Aspirant
Jan 26, 2017
That was a small part of my question that was answered - but not the question involving the core issue - which is why the ports won't forward, and how to fix it so they do.
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Jan 27, 2017
  evmoore wrote:
  
  That was a small part of my question that was answered - but not the question involving the core issue - which is why the ports won't forward, and how to fix it so they do.
  
  What device is between the router and the ISP network?
  - evmoore
    Aspirant
    Feb 21, 2017
    You're referring to the modem? Arris 6183