BT Homehub 2 NAT limitations?

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Basically i'm trying to play a game called haxball which is a flash-based p2p game but i have trouble connecting to hosts all the time and apparantly it's to do with my router. I've tried portforwarding and am really at my wits end of what to do to make connecting to games work. Any ideas?
 
I'd be amazed if the router didnt support PnP. Does it show up in windows as a router in your network? This usually indicates the router supports PnP and the application can temporarily setup port forwards on the router itself
 
stueng said:
I'd be amazed if the router didnt support PnP. Does it show up in windows as a router in your network? This usually indicates the router supports PnP and the application can temporarily setup port forwards on the router itself
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I can set portforwards in the router settings but it doesn't seem to work.

lunarwolf said:
do you know which ports to forward?

i had NAT errors all the time in company of heroes with BT homehub, tried port forwarding via the web interface and that never worked. then i found this method and it worked http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?185668-nat-error-message
post #9 from Tippeh

hopefully that will help you as it did for me
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I'll check out that link now, cheers. I know what ports to forward but it's something like 1024 -655535, which i've tried and the game still doesn't work.
 
further down that post, after the suggestion about putting it in the DMZ they talk about right clicking on the home hub from within windows 7 - this is uPnP and what I was talking about in my first post. Do this, not the DMZ thing
 
do not forward all those ports (1024-655535) these are ALL the "higher" ports and are a security risk to you if you forward them all, only forward what you need which should be one or two ports
 
Yeah. I already considered using DMZ but know the risks involved.

If it was just the 2 ports it'd be easy but connecting to peoples games on this haxball uses random ports from between those numbers. Everyone else seems to get on except me. 18 of my mates were playing last night with no problems but i couldn't even get in. :(
 
if you are going to forward all those ports you may as well just go in the DMZ, its the same thing all traffic hitting your router will be forwarded to you unless the router is adding some kind of inspection on those packets which I doubt

because your router supports uPNP the game should be able to tell the router which ports to forward as and when they are needed; perhaps look for haxball forums and ask there? sometimes the source port is random but the destination port is always the same; such as FTP
 
The haxball forums are full of just league forums of people taking it too seriously and i've googled and searched them all for any previous fixes to no avail.

These are the fixes Haxball itself recommends.

Players have reported a few ways to solve this problem:

Forwarding all the UDP ports in the range 1024..65535 (a lot I know, Flash will pick one at random from that range).
If you are behind two routers enable UPnP in the first one.
Configure your router to point to your computer as a DMZ host.
Removing your router from the equation entirely and connect directly to the internet.
If you are unable to enact the above fixes, don't worry, there are some hosts that you will always be able to connect to, make sure to try every game available. You will be able to connect to at least one of them.
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do you have a spare network card? you could put one connection in the DMZ and the other normal, disable/enable when you want to play haxball

do you have other people sharing your connection, they might start getting problems if you forward all those ports

or buy another router xD
 
Nope. It seems that'll i'll just have to not play it. Too skint to afford a new router.

I'll just talk to people i don't like on facebook while my actual mates have all the fun. :(
 
How dangerous is it to leave them open for a few hours at a time though?

Also, i tried doing it through the router settings on 192.168.1.254 but it didn't help. With the other way suggested in this topic, how'd you actually set it for a range? No way am i sitting there for a month doing it individually lol.
 
you shouldn't need to open a DMZ. just look at the link i gave you -> typpeh post #9 http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=21278866#post21278866 pictures that are pretty self explanatory

the web interface for BT homehub was rubbish and never worked. opening DMZ wasn't the solution, neither was application sharing etc... just do it from your windows interface

basically open network / right clik BT Hub icon / settings / manually input the exact port(s) you need forwarded
 
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