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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.
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.
Have you been able to test this with your Orbi st_shaw I'm pretty convinced this is a bug in the code and yet another flaw with these shoddy products, but it would be nice to have confirmation. Thanks!
No, I haven't tested it yet. I will give it a shot next weekend.
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.
If you do any Port Forwarding configurations, uPnP needs to be disabled.
uPnP does a form of automatic port forwarding for devices and ports. When you set manual PF, it needs to be disabled...
