Asus N55u, management issues, LAN

JAGRocks09 · 28 Jun 2012 at 09:03

Hello All,

I replaced my old netgear router with the ASUS N55u recently, I changed for the aditional features and general speed boost all around.

This router has many PCs connected to it in a home environment, 4 of the PC are connected via Cat6 and a 8 port Netgear switch.

I'm having trouble unblocking ports on the router, I have followed a guide on portforward.com for the N56u which seems to have simular menu stucture, but then when checking the port is unblocked to my PC it is still shown as closed.

I have also tried disabling the Firewall and going through that route but the port still shows as being closed, I forget the website I used to check the open ports.

Basically I am trying to unblock/forward port 25565 which is commonly used for Minecraft, The PCs havn't changed since I switched over the routers only differences are that they have been assigned different Static IP addresses and the router is now on 192.168.1.1 rather then 192.168.0.1

At the moment, my brothers that own PCs on my Switch which is attached the router cannot play (run their own servers) Minecraft via lan or via a Dynamic DNS.

Sorry for block of text I'm sure there is much more information I could provide.

Can anyone suggest settings on the router that I might be missing or maybe other things that cause issues. I don't know if Minecraft would store Default gateways or something under its local files.

Thanks in advance for any help, have tried many things with not much luck, hopefully the experience and wisdom of this forum will help :-)

KIA · 28 Jun 2012 at 10:18

You can use http://www.canyouseeme.org/ to check open ports.

You should screen capture the port forwarding, IP address and minecraft configs.

JAGRocks09 · 29 Jun 2012 at 15:12

Thanks for your reply, was going to post up the info you requested, found the problem just now, as I found some time to play around.

What I did was removed all the security features from the Router and found that port 25565 was still blocked so then I thought just before I post up my settings on here, which there have been allot of different ones, I'd check my PC windows firewall, to test if it was this I also entirely disabled it. Using the site you provided canyouseeme.org I could then see the port.

I then tested via running a server on each PC and rolling the router security back in and removing my PC from the DMZ. I found that at every stage It has worked so the only thing I have left to sort out is windows firewall.

I feel a bit stupid as given the situation it either had to be an issue with the way the router was set up or an issue with the PCs. Never looked as far as the PC seeing as it had worked fine on the last router with no changes to the PCs since.

My Dynamic Dns is working aswell which is good as it means the router is functioning exactly how I need/want it to be.

It's a bit embarassing for me to not notice that windows firewall was blocking the port, I thought that I would know the ins and outs of every router after using a few but still there are tonnes of features on here that I don't know what they do or have no use for, I asumed one was causing a problem.

bledd · 30 Jun 2012 at 05:55

Shouldn't need to use DMZ.

Does anyone know if this router has a WOL feature? Can't seem to find it. Coupled with the fact that it doesn't have no-ip support. I may have to stop using it!