Forwarding ports on a netgear router?

ShiWarrior · 5 Oct 2018 at 18:51

im not quite sure if im doing this right

i need to open some ports to get Forza Horizon 4 working, but its not that easy on my nertgear Genie

ports needed are :
Forza Horizon 4 - PC

TCP: 3074
UDP: 88,500,3074,3544,4500

This is how i've done it, game still not working

ShiWarrior · 6 Oct 2018 at 21:24

upnp is disabled

ShiWarrior · 6 Oct 2018 at 22:20

yeah i thought you were going to say that, so i went ahead and enabled it
still doesn't fix my problem though

ShiWarrior · 7 Oct 2018 at 09:02

done that, still no joy

ShiWarrior · 7 Oct 2018 at 22:14

3074 i did as TCP
all others as UDP

ShiWarrior · 8 Oct 2018 at 18:22

just logged into the router to check everything and noticed my computers IP address has changed because my dads phone is now connected to the router (at this present time)

is there a way to lock it down?

ShiWarrior · 8 Oct 2018 at 20:00

bremen1874 said:
Try setting a DHCP reservation. You should be able to setup the router so it always assigns the same IP based on the device's mac address.

If not configure the device with a static IP. Choose an IP outside the router's DHCP range.

think ive got it

ht

ShiWarrior · 8 Oct 2018 at 20:06

wifi wont work now

ShiWarrior · 8 Oct 2018 at 20:12

ah ok
thanks

ShiWarrior · 8 Oct 2018 at 20:47

currently going though a web page i found but so far, this looks like what i need to unblock somehow

ShiWarrior · 8 Oct 2018 at 22:24

just found this under "network properties"

ShiWarrior · 9 Oct 2018 at 09:37

still having problems

the link from the xbox thing goes to this page :

http://xbox.com/windows/QoS

Says to make sure windows firewall is running, well i have Kapersky, so i closed it and did what it says with no joy

ShiWarrior · 9 Oct 2018 at 13:40

bremen1874 said:
Do you have another PC you can test with?

Failing that do you have a spare HDD? It'd only take an hour to install a clean version of Windows for testing.

no i dont at the moment
my PC isnt ready for formatting as of yet unfortuantly

ShiWarrior · 9 Oct 2018 at 13:41

SupraWez said:
The screenshot above of your network settings shows a 169.254 address, typical of Windows when its unable to attain a DHCP address.

Have you fixed your DHCP configuration and assigned a static to your PC either through a DHCP reservation or on the machine itself?

thanks for this, I will log into the router again and look at this

ShiWarrior · 9 Oct 2018 at 14:41

ive got "Use router as a DHCP Server"
should i take this off then?

i've also got under Router MAC address - "Default" should this be set to a specific mac address? or use the computer MAC address ?

ShiWarrior · 9 Oct 2018 at 17:38

SupraWez said:
I would leave those all alone, the first one is actually enabling / disabling the DHCP server on your router, all your devices will be relying on this.

The second one is fine and also does not need touching.

You are looking for DHCP reservations, if your router cannot do it then you could set the IP statically on the Windows PC and then make sure your NAT rules point to that IP address.

i thought i had :

Thanks for the link, will have a read

ShiWarrior · 9 Oct 2018 at 17:43

sorry i should have said, i changed the .3 ones to match on the .2 one

ShiWarrior · 9 Oct 2018 at 17:55

so i guess my router is done setting up

so now its more of a Software firewall problem ?

ShiWarrior · 9 Oct 2018 at 18:47

had a Windows update today, and now the game works

Thanks all