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BE6500 and Port Forwarding
I am new to the Netgear forums so, please forgive any ignorance on my part. TDS has been sending out notification about installing Fiber optic internet in our neighborhood. My understanding is that...
TDS has been sending out notification
Is this the correct reference:
https://tdstelecom.com/shop/internet-services.html
And, is it correct to assume that the point of the Original Post was whether the Netgear BE6500 will support port forwarding using the TDS Optical Network Terminal (ONT)?
i.e. the extensive discussion about AT&T Internet Air is "off topic"?
Netgear routers support Port Forwarding. Page 164 of the RS200 User Manual describes how to set it up.
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RS200/RS200_RS150_UM_EN.pdf
Each of these "Scripts" suggest to have at least 5 ports forwarded for sharing purposes.
Netgear Port Forwarding connects each specific port to one specific device on the LAN. (It is not clear to me what the point would be of having five different ports forwarded to the same device on the LAN.) The most common reason for forwarding multiple ports is when providing access to multiple resources. For example, if a security camera accepts connections over port 80 and a person wants to access three separate cameras from the internet using Port Forwarding, he would set up three 'rules':
- External port 1 (how about 81?) to internal device 1 port 80.
- External port 2 (let's use 82) to internal device 2 port 80.
- External port 3 (let's use 83) to internal device 3 port 80.
i.e. the extensive discussion about AT&T Internet Air is "off topic"?
What I had meant to say was that as StephenB pointed out, AT&T "Air" simply will not do what you want with any router. You seem to have two choices:
- Go back to the original AT&T wired service, or
- Wait until fiber becomes available (and do without the media sharing until then)
(It is not clear to me what the point would be of having five different ports forwarded to the same device on the LAN.)
Not unusual. For instance, an FTP server behind NAT requires at least two ports - one for control and one port for data transfer. If you want to transfer multiple files at the same time, or allow multiple remote users, then you need more data ports. I've generally recommended 4 data ports per remote user for ReadyNAS. So 5 ports total if there is only one remote user.
This use case is similar. mIRC has one port for chat (in this case requesting file transfer), and at least one data transfer port (generally more than one, so you can receive files in parallel).
You seem to have two choices:
1. Go back to the original AT&T wired service, or
2. Wait until fiber becomes available (and do without the media sharing until then)
Or (as I pointed out earlier) subscribe to a VPN that supports port forwarding at the VPN server until fiber becomes available. Might be a good idea anyway, even after fiber becomes available.