I'm not an idiot...but what's going on?

[mdbutphy]

Hey all. I bought a new Netgear router because my belkin router kept messing up, and I was having to restart it daily. So I set up this new netgear router to allow bittorrent to run (opened port-forwarding on ports 6880-6890 and 6969). Then, in bitTornado, I set the same ports as the "listening" ports. After this, bit torrent still reports that I'm behind a firewall, even on busy torrents after 30 minutes or running. I've tried different ports and other things, but to no avail. Interestingly, the router has also been configured to run Limewire, but when I run it, it "sees" that I'm still behind a firewall. What gives? This should work, right? Oh, and I've set the correct local ip in the port-forwarding as well, so that isn't the problem. The model number is WGR614v6, and I've updated the firmware on it to the new beta software (this problem was still present under the originally installed firmware). Thanks in advance

[crackerjacker]

I'm not an idiot...but what's going on?


Hey all. I bought a new Netgear router because my belkin router kept messing up, and I was having to restart it daily.


So I set up this new netgear router to allow bittorrent to run (opened port-forwarding on ports 6880-6890 and 6969).
Then, in bitTornado, I set the same ports as the "listening" ports.

After this, bit torrent still reports that I'm behind a firewall, even on busy torrents after 30 minutes or running.

I've tried different ports and other things, but to no avail. Interestingly, the router has also been configured to run Limewire, but when I run it, it "sees" that I'm still behind a firewall.

What gives?
This should work, right? Oh, and I've set the correct local ip in the port-forwarding as well, so that isn't the problem.


The model number is WGR614v6, and I've updated the firmware on it to the new beta software (this problem was still present under the originally installed firmware). Thanks in advance

[mdbutphy]

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What are you talking about?

[Potato]

I think she took your post and put some spaces between sentences.

[pimpinaman]

have you tried the netgear forums? I had some trouble with my netgear router a while back, but firmware fixed it. Are you running a software firewall? A quick google search turned up several problems with that router....

[crackerjacker]

I think she took your post and put some spaces between sentences.
what potato said man

[silentscream]

what potato said man
like the new avatar cj

that alien baby thing was odd

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[mountain_rage]

Ya my dad bought a netgear router the thing is pissing me off. It doesnt let me run my nforce 4 hardware firewall with it. If I run my firewall no matter what my settings are they will not comunicate. You might need to set your computer to keep the same ip all the time over the router. My router for example will change my ip adress everytime I connect unless I assign myself an ip adress. You could also try enabling ping requests, dissable the router firewall, turn on upnp. Theirs a huge list of things it might be read your manual.

[mdbutphy]

So, as it turns out, maybe this router is just not the best...thanks for the tip pimpin. I had heard that netgear and linksys were the best right now, but this little baby's going right back to the store :)

it's happening because you bough tthe worst router known to man.

i just bumped 12 or so threads about this specific issue up. It took 5 mins to search.. i grabbed only a FEW of the posts about this.. posts from the first 3 pages of the search results on the model number.

Netgear doesn't care about you, or me. This has been an ongoing problem for a long time, not only do they not acknowledge it, they keep selling the router.


mountain_rage:
My computers both have static IP's that I've given them, which are mirrored in the router settings, so that they both will always have the same ip's. I don't want to disable the firewall, as that defeats the whole purpose. I want things to go THRU the firewall while still maintaining a decent level of hacker protection, but the firewall doesn't seem to work. Oh, and upnp is on, too. I haven't messed with ping requests, but I don't know what that would do for me...

[pimpinaman]

don't get me wrong I like my netgear, when I bought it, it was the hotness. Now it is older and can be picked up cheap at different places. I'm leaning towards the Belkin pre-N in the near future.