Well my buddy and i have been having problems joining eachothers game on halo 2 online, never had this problem before up until now. Its only his partys i cant join so i called xbox live support and they told me to call linksys and have them take me step by step through the port forwarding process. Well i figured i would do it myself with an online tutorial. I type in my ip in the url bar, type my passowrd in, go to gaming and applications. Go to port range forward, Here is a screenshot: http://i7.tinypic.com/257m0p0.jpg Now my question is the xbox live support guy told me to forward these ports: tcp3074 udp3074 udp88 How in the world do i enter those ports into that port fowarding page? I can not figure out how so if anyone with port forwarding expertise could help me i would really really appreciate it. Thanks, A3D Edit: Should enable dmz? Someone told me i should, thats why i cant join his party.
Firstly: http://www.portforward.com/ Secondly, what you want to forward is the number first, then look for a drop down menu that offers "TCP" "UDP" or "BOTH" and select the relevent ones. So for instance, you'd type in under "application" just a name so you know what it is. Under "Start", for the first one, you'd write 3074, and under "End" you'd write 3074. Then for the drop down menu select "BOTH". Then find out what your IP is by opening up your network connections box in the bar with the clock on it. Look for a computer with radio signals, or two computers, one in front of the other. Click on whichever you find, then click the support tab. In there next to "IP address" it'll tell you the number you need to stick in the "IP Adress" box on the routers port forwarding page. It'll be something like 192.168.1.2 or something close. Then just click enable, save the settings, and you're done.
i know the problem has been solved, but don't put anything in the DMZ unless you have a good firewall as it places the ip of that system outside of the routers nat/spi firewall protection.
Yeah, the DMZ is a bit like having a giant fortress, and going and standing outside it. More access to stuff, but unless you've got protection as LCDguy says, it's big time risky.
