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vartistry
Aspirant
Aug 08, 2018
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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...
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    ricky28
    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.