Netgear DG834G NAT Problems

Faded · 31 Mar 2007 at 14:06

Please help.

Okay so I'm having some problems with NAT on my netgear modem, whenever I try to disable it completely or disable the nat firewall i lose my connection.
This is really beginning to frustrate me now and if anyone knows how I can sort it it would be appreciated.

bad_ass_neil · 31 Mar 2007 at 14:56

have you upgraded the firmware?

the dg834g as some lovely bugs in the early releases

Faded · 31 Mar 2007 at 15:00

yeah, currently running the latest available.
do i need to do anything else before disabling the nat firewall to make it work cause its causing havok with my torrents.
it keeps giving me intermitent 'yellow icons' in both uTorrent and Azereus.

Caged · 31 Mar 2007 at 15:23

You can't disable NAT if you only have one public IP address - that's how the router shares your connection in the first place. You can disable any firewall built into the router in favour of the XP one though, but NAT isn't a firewall (and I wish router manufacturers would stop calling it one).

The easiest thing to do is enable UPnP and then tell uTorrent to open it's own holes in the firewall, or to manually port forward the ports to your machine.

Faded · 31 Mar 2007 at 15:25

I've already manually forwarded the ports and enabled Upnp but its still having problems

Caged · 31 Mar 2007 at 15:30

Check your windows firewall settings then. Disabling NAT is not something you want to do.

Faded · 31 Mar 2007 at 16:41

I've messed with firewall settings and even tried turning it off completely, didnt help me at all.