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stoofing
Jan 24, 2019Aspirant
Port wont open
My ports refuse to open even though before port forwarding worked before without the router. I've had this router for a few weeks now, and when I go to port forward on both my modem, which is an Xfin...
- Jan 24, 2019
I had my friends join the server, and they couldn't join. But I did try the test sites a few times without having something use the port so I'll try again.
microchip8
Jan 24, 2019Master
how did you test that the ports "won't open"? is it in the firmware where it doesn't allow them or did you use a port test site? If the latter, keep in mind that a service needs to be listening on the "open port" so that the test site can detect it and report it's open
stoofing
Jan 24, 2019Aspirant
I had my friends join the server, and they couldn't join. But I did try the test sites a few times without having something use the port so I'll try again.