Cannot Port Forward on O2 Wireless Box II

JonnyGLC · 14 Nov 2009 at 15:43

I've tried pretty much everything under the sun to try and get this router to actually forward the ports im telling it to, i've disabled intrusion detection and the routers firewall as well, yet my NAT type is still classed as Strict on games and if i use port checkers on the internet they say literally every port is still closed to incoming connections?!

I'm pretty much at the end of my tether with this now, anyone got any ideas?

Reza86 · 14 Nov 2009 at 15:45

Have you reset the router?

Possibly ring o2 and ask if there is any newer firmware which might help?

JonnyGLC · 14 Nov 2009 at 15:47

Yep reset it 1000 times over, literally cannot get it to accept any incoming connections on any ports. Tried it on a couple of computers/laptops as well all with no firewalls etc.

Even the upnp doesn't help, it assigns the outgoing port fine but it just will not accept any incoming connections?!

GregI · 14 Nov 2009 at 16:27

Have you actually assigned the ports to the computer or console that uses the stuff? I also had all firewalls off etc but assigning ports to the computer was the only way to get it to work. For example to open port 27886 I have this custom entry I made.

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/91/port1.png

Then I have assigned it to my desktop PC.

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/5792/port2.png

JonnyGLC · 14 Nov 2009 at 17:11

Yup already done that, didn't affect it whatsoever!

Marcos · 15 Nov 2009 at 15:07

damn, i think i have the same problem as you

i have a spare router, im going to try that, but it looks like the o2 box is just a pain when it comes to NAT type and port forward

marc2003 · 15 Nov 2009 at 15:29

port forwarding works fine on the o2 II box so you're either doing it wrong or your box is borked.

Marcos · 15 Nov 2009 at 16:30

so you followed these ports right?

http://portforward.com/english/rout...910/XBOX360_Call_of_Duty_4_Modern_Warfare.htm

edGfaCTor · 16 Nov 2009 at 13:54

simple thing to do is go to home network and you should see your devices names you click on one then config set it to always use same address then select ports you want that should work.

or flash it with bebox firmware which is better anyway

Marcos · 16 Nov 2009 at 19:12

I forwarded to the ports to the right MAC address for Xbox, seems to have fixed it, NAT type is now open.