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Why Can't I Port Forward to the Same Internal Port on Different Devices?
Like many, I made the mistake of getting an Orbi system. It drops constantly and is unreliable, and I'll need to replace it soon, because it's clearly not ready for primetime. Until that day, I'd lik...
Can you try Advance setup -> uPnP and turn uPnP off? Port forwarding to the same port should work after that. uPnP is turn on by default and i don't know why it has anything to do with port forwarding and also the error message is misleading.
Can you send us a screenshot of what you're trying to do? It should work. Here you can see I've been able to port forward to 3389 on two different internal hosts, using different external ports (3389 and 3390). I also did it to port 80 for two different hosts, using external ports 80 and 81.
Thank you for the response. Your screenshot looks exactly like what I expect to happen. Here's how mine looks. The first image shows a forward from external 10002 to internal 10.0.0.22:88. The second shows a failed attempt to add external 10003 to internal 10.0.0.23:88. Of note, I'm on the same firmware as you: V2.1.4.16