Can somebody help me port forwarding?

[liamcrane]

Hi guys,

I am having a few issues with online gaming and i was told i may need to open some ports in order to get my battlefield game to work. The strange thing was it worked fine with my old sagemcom sky router but i replaced it yesterday with an TP-Link 8960n bought from here. Again i was playing online fine but for some reason now i cannot connect to any servers at all.

I googled the ports that need to be open and they are

Port: 80 TCP
Port: 18121 TCP
Port: 18126 TCP
Port: 18126 UDP
Port: 13505 TCP

I have logged into the router and gone to the "NAT" tab and been given the options below, its just i dont know which one i should be using to open the ports. Also do you have to setup a static IP to open ports?

Really appreciate anyones help im kinda new to this having never had to configure this before, thanks again

By craney at 2011-09-09

By craney at 2011-09-09

 

[liamcrane]

Oh right, any ideas to why i cant seem to connect to any of the battlefield servers? This morning i was playing fine which makes it even more strange. I did have a similar issue last night where it wouldn't let me connect to any servers but i factory reset the router and it allowed me to connect fine again.

 

[liamcrane]

oh ok thanks for that matey, its just i had never had a problem connecting before when i was using my old sky sagemcom router. I must admit i though port forwarding was only really for people that were hosting servers not people trying to connect to them so to speak. I just fired up my xbox and played gears of war 2 online with no problems at all just to rule out there being a problem with the router.

Hopefully it will sort itself out then i hope as i dont want to have to reboot the router everytime i cant connect to a server. I can log in to my online account fine and get to the server list page but get the message of a minute or two to check internet connection settings