Archer AC 1750 v1 port forwarding
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Good Evening,
Since a few weeks, I'm experiencing huge lags when playing the game World of Warcraft. Even if I think my connection is fine (It's happening only with this game and my connection tests provided some decent results).
To see if it make a difference, I decided to open the port used by the game. According to their documentation, they are 1119, 3724 and 6012 (both TCP and UDP).
1. I connected to the GUI of my router.
2. I went to DHCP > Address reservation where I put my IP and my MAC address taken from the DHCP client list.
3. I clicked on Forwarding > Virtual Servers > Add New...
4. Then for each port, I filled in
Service port: 1119 (rsp. 3724 or 6012).
Internal port: (empty) <- I tried also to filled in the field with the same value as the service port.
IP Address: My reserved IP.
Protocol: ALL (since the game provider said the ports need to be opened for both TCP and UDP).
Status: Enabled.
Common Service Port: --Select One-- (so I didn't touch this field).
5. I rebooted the router.
To test what I did:
6. I launched the command window with admin rights.
7. I typed "netstat -ab" but the three ports didn't appear in the results. So I conclude they aren't correctly opened.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Thibault
With netstat -ab you can only see if there's/isn't active connections to your computer on these ports.
If you want to check whether these ports are open or not, you need to use a tool like - https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/
which will check that from an external IP address (Internet).
Also make sure that your router's WAN IP address is public:
The problem is that you've obtained a private IP address on the C7 WAN port:
You probably have an ISP device (modem) before the C7 router.
What you can do is to:
1. Put the ISP modem in bridge mode and obtain the public IP address on your C7 router WAN port.
2. Configure DMZ on the ISP modem to the C7 router IP address (192.168.0.3 in your case).
Either option will resolve your issue, but I would recommend the first one since that way you'll avoid the double NAT in your network.
