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vartistry
Aug 08, 2018Aspirant
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...
- Aug 21, 2018
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.
st_shaw
Aug 08, 2018Master
I see what you mean. I'm not exactly sure how the other posters got this to work beyond using the custom service button. I won't have access to my Orbi to try anything until the weekend.
vartistry
Aug 08, 2018Aspirant
Yeah, it's strange. This screen is nearly identical to the one I used when setting up my Nighthawk the same way; it just won't let me do it. Seems like a bug in the admin screen, but maybe I'm missing something.