As most of us I'm working from home and so does my wife. We are using RDP from our laptops to connect to our office hosts, but when we connect our connections are constantly dropped. I added port FW rule in the router to laptop1 internal IP (192.168.1.10) and its working fine now. Problem is that the other laptop still can’t connect and I can’t add another rule with same port for the other laptop (192.168.1.11). How can I open this outgoing port to all devices or more than 1 device? Thanks,
EK
Model: R7000P|Nighthawk AC2300 Smart WiFi Dual Band Gigabit Router
> We are using RDP from our laptops to connect to our office hosts, > [...]
How, exactly? Same "office", or different?
> I added port FW rule in the router to laptop1 internal IP > (192.168.1.10) and its working fine now.
I can't see your port-forwarding rule.
At least one of us is confused. I'd expect port forwarding to be useful if you were trying to make an _incoming_ connection to your home computer(s) from outside your home. I don't see how port forwarding would be helpful when you make an _outgoing_ connection to a remote system.
If you delete that rule, does the problem return?
> Problem is that the other laptop still can't connect [...]
"can't" is not a useful problem description. It does not say what you did. It does not say what happened when you did it. As usual, showing actual actions (commands) with their actual results (error messages, LED indicators, ...) can be more helpful than vague descriptions or interpretations.
> [...] and I can't add another rule with same port for the other laptop > (192.168.1.11).
That's right, you can't. Because it would make no sense.
> How can I open this outgoing port to all devices or more than 1 > device?
You can' "open" an "outgoing port" because, by default, an outgoing port is not "closed". You don't need any special rule for port 80 or 443 to allow you to use a web browser, either. And you especially don't need any special rule to allow multiple computers on your LAN to access any web sites.
I don't know what your problem is, but I doubt that port forwarding is the solution.
When configuring port forwarding to handle _incoming_ connections to multiple servers on your LAN, you need to use different external port numbers. I don't see how that would apply to _outgoing_ connections, however.
"How, exactly? Same "office", or different?" Different office, laptop1 is using RDP directly to office machine, laptop2 is using VPN+RDP.
I added simple port FW rule on port 3389 to laptop1 IP.
I expect the same thing you discribe but I don't know how, port FW helps.
If I remove the rule laptop1 can't RDP at all, getting timeout reaching the remote host.
With laptop2 I can always connect to remote host but once the session is idle for ~30-60 seconds it get disconnected. Then RDP is reconnecting to session once I try to use it. VPN is stable and has no disconections.
When I connect both laptops directly to the modem of the ISP (cable) I don't have any RDP problems for both laptops.
Same if I use hotspot from my cell phone.
I don't think port FW is the solution as you wrote, but obviusly my router is blocking outgoing RDP.
I didn't have this problem with my old Linksys router.
