After port forwarding correctly, the port is still closed?

Question

I am 100% sure I've port forwarded correctly. I've made my IP static and I've tried turning off my firewall, trying a different port number, checking if my ISP allowed hosting ports, turning on/off UPnP and DMZ, yet it's still not working. I'm stumped.

Answer 1

@Numina these are my port forwarding settings. The black spots are my personal IP address and the local IP is also my IPv4



@tumbleweed the only DHCP setting I could find on my router is saying yes or no to the DHCP server. I have a Thomson twg870ug. I will look into the pinging later, thanks for the help.

Answer 2

First, turn the computer from static IP back to dynamic. On the router, find the DHCP reservation list and enter the MAC address of the computer here along with the IP address you want it to have. Then, whenever the machine connects to your router it gets that IP but if it were to connect anywhere else it would be able to connect as well. Plus it avoids any possible IP conflicts which can occur.



Make sure your router has the latest firmware.

In the router, turn on "respond to ping". Now, from outside of your network, ping your router (you will need the external IP assign by your ISP to do this). Once you have verified that you can ping the router, I would perform an experiment and setup a web server on my machine had have it listening on the port you think you have opened. Try to connect to it from outside: type the address followed by " xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:portnumber". If you get the web page then you know you did it correctly. If not, something is still blocking that port.



Check your AV software as this will do this on some occasions.



Making sure your ports are open:

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001324.htm

http://www.wikihow.com/Open-Ports

http://www.wikihow.com/Open-Ports

Answer 3

Press start>run>cmd; type ipconfig /all

Look what your IPv4 address is. That's your computers IP, that IP is supposed to be given when forwarding your port.

It would help if you posted what it says in cmd, and what you filled in at your router.

Check out these links, maybe it helps;

http://www.pcwintech.com/common-problems-fixes-port-forwarding

And follow this guide, just to make sure; http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/