MTS: Router fun.

[Presence]

Well, on a secondary note, I finally bothered to register. Hello [again]. I do hope MTS topics are still allowed and those ones that I saw in the topic list before making this aren't hoaxes of some sort.

To the point, though, after a long process of the phone compnay screwing up multiple times, I've managed to procure DSL service from them again. However, with the provided router (if just modifying the settings of this one proves to be too much of a pain in the ass, I suppose I could just see about modifying the necessary bits of the new one, assuming it kept the old settings), I've been rendered unable to use the services of very delightful programs such as Ventrilo and TeamSpeak (and some others, I'm sure, but it's those ones that matter because I actually use them).

I remember having this problem before and finding it pretty easy to fix with my old router, but this new one is about half the size and just seems better, so I'd rather like to use it. I just can't remember what the hell I had to change. In addition to this, last I tried to modify something I ended up asking for help and the helper ended up boning the router and connection for upwards of six hours.

Any ideas, anyone?

In the meantime I suppose I could try extensive googling, but perusal of helps for the router and the programs themselves weren't of much help. There's also next to no documentation for the router itself.

[SoNick Belmont]

Well, first of all, Welcome back, Cazelfax!
Secondly, yeah, MTS topics are allowed here.
And thirdly, sadly, I can't think of anything to help. Perhaps you could google the brandname of your router and go from there?

[Presence]

Rather certain that'd just take me to the page (or a similar page) linked to on the whopping one page of documentation the router came with. That and whatever I'm looking to do put in "real" terms would probably give more, but I'm not sure what I'm looking to do in "real" terms, just in "method" terms.

[Sz]

Typically routers have a sort of "settings DNS" web address (I'm sure there's a correct name for this, however, I'm not aware of it) than you simply type in the address bar of your favorite browser and go to, then log in and adjust your port settings to open the ports necessary to run those particualr programs.

However, this obviously requires you to: 1) know which ports you need to open, and 2) figure out how to get to the settings page.

If it's a Linksys router I think they all have the same address, but I unfortunately can't remember what it is. A google search with your rounter brand and make might help you out in that regard.

[Piers]

Acctualy...
Yeah. My port options are a little odd. Everytime I attempted port-configuring it didn't seem to work.
www.geocities.com/electricthehedgehog/portz.jpg

Just need to know - whats the 'Default DMZ Server' and 'Response to Ping on Wan Port'?
(I'm also wirelessly connected)

[Epon]

The router is probably not directing the ports properly.

192.168.1.1
10.234.80.1
and there's another IP addy that usually is the standard for router config pages, try typing those in.

Then find where the port forwarding page is and configure it to your comp's IP on the network

[Presence]

I haven't really seen much by way of anything having to do with port forwarding in the router's configuration pages (I know/knew how to get to them), but from what I've read about it, I think NAT could very well be a contributor to the problem, too. Thing is, though, when I disable it, my router stops believing in my DNS servers.

So, I figured if I have to live with NAT, mayhap I could set up some pinholes through it. I set them up with the ports that the aforementioned programs use, but... no dice. Then again, I'm not entirely sure what address I should have put in for the "Internal IP address". I just entered my machine's IP address. (Addendum: After reading a bit of the help on NAT pinholes, I'm pretty sure that putting in my IP address for the pinhole was correct.)

Addendum II: Well, to get the ball rolling on perhaps using the old router if this stupid new one proves to be too much of a pain, is there a way to figure out (or reset) the password external from the router? It has been quite a while since I set it and I didn't set it to anything that I normally remember.

[Housekeeper (loljanitor) Faddy]

Reminds me of the ongoing issues I have with the switch I picked up. More than two computers = problems with IP assignment. Spent two days to figure that out. Although that was just with an internet connection. I didn't try it otherwise.

I don't know if it'll help anyone, but I wrote a batch file to check my IP stuff through IP config (Stupidass 2K+ closes it right away).

@ipconfig /all
@pause


Those are the only lines, so muh. It lists everything nice and neatly for you. Although that's under Windows.