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Port forwarding.

Jaysnp101 — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:19:23 GMT

Hi, l have forwarded some ports on the bt smart hub 2. These are to connect to a gaming server to help with connection issues im facing.

I have tried upnp but it didn't work so had to try manually forwarding the ports myself.

I have tried checking that the ports are listening when running the application on my local ip : 192.168.1.186 but they always come back as closed.

I have tried this from within my local network and even using an external ip address but same results.

On website checks it shows my local ip : 81.×××.×××.××× then when I check all ports the are closed. I've also tried dmz but same results.

Any advise on what I'm doing wrong, thanks in advance

Re: Port forwarding.

licquorice — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:23:24 GMT

You don't need port forwarding to connect TO a server, it is only required for connections to your device.

Re: Port forwarding.

Jaysnp101 — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:25:37 GMT

Its my gaming console I'm trying to open the ports on, but I can only do this through the router.
I'm really not too technical with here things so maybe I'm going wrong somewhere. Thanks

Re: Port forwarding.

Jaysnp101 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 01:37:47 GMT

Either BT are blocking port forwarding or it doesn't work on my router. Although I've tried it on several.

I check my router and port 80, 443 and some other are open but no matter what none of the others open.

Please help.

Re: Port forwarding.

Jaysnp101 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:19:29 GMT

Is anyone able to shed some light on this please or point me in the right direction. Thanks

Re: Port forwarding.

Jaysnp101 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:30:14 GMT

Also noticed im NEVER the host, this game is between 2 players and noticed I always have the connecrion disadvantage. Something is seriously wrong with my setup and needs resolving.

Re: Port forwarding.

TimCurtis — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:54:35 GMT

@Jaysnp101

Had a lot of fun with my son's SH2 yesterday about this.

You need to tell the hub that the assigned ip address is to be always used and then set up port forwarding for that device with it's now permanently assigned IP address. Then magically you should find the port(s) opened.

Re: Port forwarding.

Jaysnp101 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:02:37 GMT

Thanks Tim, I have already set up static ip address on playstion for it, I tried to do it on the SH2 but all it says is "always use this ip address" which si auto set to yes due to already doing it on the console.

Still ports all closed, no idea what more I can do.

Re: Port forwarding.

licquorice — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:06:32 GMT

Are you sure the console is expecting incoming connections? If you are not running a server you will only be making outgoing connections.

Re: Port forwarding.

Jaysnp101 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:37:39 GMT

Almost all game company's and even playstation themselves tell you to forward ports if your having connection issues.

If you are playing a multiplayer game online would that not need ports for outgoing connections?

I have ran port checking tests while using the console and all ports except the ones above all remain closed.

Re: Port forwarding.

TimCurtis — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:08:19 GMT

@Jaysnp101

When you say "I have already set up static ip address on playstion for it" is that set on the Playstation manually or is it assigned by DHCP?

In my son's case he had assigned the device - a NAS - manually outside of the DHCP range using 192.168.1.12. He then set up port forwarding rules for ...12 . At this point all ports were still closed. Having got that IP address for his device in the SH2 he then set it to "always use this IP address" and saved it. He then changed the NAS to use DHCP and found all the ports open. Not sure if the the last step actually did anything though.

Re: Port forwarding.

Jaysnp101 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:53:25 GMT

@TimCurtis

This seems like a very weird way of doing things but guess it must have triggered something to make it work.

I let the playstation get an ip from the dhcp, 192.168.1.186 I then applied the "always use this ip address" on the router, added the port forwarding rules. Checked them: still closed.

Set up static ip address on playstion using ...,...,...,186 and checked the ports again ...... still closed.

Maybe I'll try your method above and see where it gets me. Hopefully I'll get them open through more luck than anything as looks like SH2 has some hidden issues.

Re: Port forwarding.

TimCurtis — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:48:03 GMT

@Jaysnp101

I think you may need to make it outside of the DHCP range (192.168.1.64 ? to 192.168.1.253) for some strange reason. I know on my Asus I give my devices ip addresses outside of DHCP , that being the Asus recommendation.

Re: Port forwarding.

Jaysnp101 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:05:46 GMT

The method that you said worked for you above I will try but use an ip outside the dhcp range. Did you reset the router at any point for the effects to take cause. Thanks again

Re: Port forwarding.

TimCurtis — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:18:06 GMT

@Jaysnp101

No I don't think so but in your case that might be a good idea to get rid of the now unused ip address entries.

Re: Port forwarding.

Jaysnp101 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:51:28 GMT

Literally nothing is working, I can't understand what I'm doing wrong.

I really need this sorted, every single port I check is either blocked or closed no matter what I'm running.

Can someone please get this sorted for me as its beyond a joke now.

Thanks

Re: Port forwarding.

TimCurtis — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:15:50 GMT

@Jaysnp101

I don't have access to an SH2 and I've explained exactly the steps my son & I went through - over a Facetime call - that resolved it successfully.

Hopefully someone else can jump in to help as I've exhausted my limited knowledge on this.

Re: Port forwarding.

Jaysnp101 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:45:52 GMT

@TimCurtis

Honestly thank you for trying its just really frustrating.

Surely this shouldn't be so hard to do , could the router be at fault? Although I have tried a few others.

Hopefully someone will come to my rescue haha.

Thanks again

Re: Port forwarding.

Jaysnp101 — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 10:51:44 GMT

The only other solution I can think of is that my router is faulty , can someone please help.

Re: Port forwarding.

Jaysnp101 — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 19:49:07 GMT

Ok, after another day of speaking to bt help trying to resolve this issue they have told me they have placed me on a "super stable profile"

I'm guessing this is some kind of interleaving but if anyone else might know then please let me know.

I've also dug out my TP link w9970 router, is there any ideal setting for this to help.get port forwarding to work. Might seem like a stupid question but didn't realise you needed a networking degree to get the SH2 to work

Thanks