[H] Router Troubles

On May 04 2009 07:50 Naib wrote:
Why would you want to log in on your ISP's website? You should be logging in to the router, and do the port forwarding magic there, as far as I'm concerned.

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me will give you a thorough explanation

On May 04 2009 07:53 iCCup.d(O.o)a wrote:


No like the gateway my router is connecting with, I go to it but it's a site owned by my ISP.

On May 04 2009 09:18 Myrmidon wrote:


As Naib said, you probably want to change your router configuration (unless your ISP does things in a very strange way I've never heard of before). Your router--or modem, or whatever is getting the connection from your ISP--has an IP address that's visible on the public Internet that everybody on Battle.net you're playing with can see. Your computer has a local IP address that is invisible to the outside world on the other side of your router. The issue is that people on the outside trying to connect to your game don't know anything about your local IP address, so they're trying to contact you on your public IP address on a certain port defined by Starcraft (6112 TCP or something, I forget).

At the moment, your router gets a packet from the outside addressed to your public IP address on that port, and it doesn't know what to do with it. So what you need to do is tell your router to send packets addressed for that port to your personal computer, which is identified by your local IP address.

Short version: set your router to port forward the correct Starcraft ports to your computer's local IP address. This site may be useful.