Forwarding ports on a router to host a game server ( Help needed )

[Mad_Jay]

A few months back i bought myself a xbox 360. Therefore i had to dig out my old router from a few years back ( A Netgear MR814v2 ) to get myself on xbox live. Well i got it all running great, but i could no longer host a game of Rfactor with my mates to race with.

But since its half term next week i wanted to get it all up and running if possible, as it is possible to host a game of Rfactor by opening some ports in the routers web access.

And so i commenced doing so, following a guide from here: www.portforwarding.com : to get myself a static ip address and to forward the correct ports for Rfactor http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Netgear/MR814/rFactor.htm

The ports which need to be opened are... 34297,34397 and 34447

I did all this following the guide, and yet nobody can find or join my server which im hosting.

Could anybody shed some light onto what i might be doing wrong, or give any other info the guide dosnt provide ?

 

[PhillyDee]

You need to open the correct ports and forward them to the IP that the Xbox is on. i.e. 192.168.1.10. Then to connect, people have to type in your internet IP which can be anything along the lines of 77.xx.xx.xx etc. Just not anything beginning with 127. or 192. as they are 'local' ips.

 

[Mad_Jay]

Sorry forgot to say, Rfactor is a pc game. I had to use a router to get my xbox on live. I suppose the xbox is not important

But still the same process right ?

*edit*

I give them my ip which i got from www.whatsmyip.org and they still cant connect, or see my server in the list.