Port forwarding

[Psell]

Hi, does anyone have any experience with port forwarding? Don’t seem to be able to save a new rule or protocol, just doesn’t save, not sure if I have a setting wrong elsewhere which is preventing this?

any help please!

[XRaySpeX]

Yes, I have. Show us the page you are trying to save.

[Psell]

Sorry, not sure how to attach that page to this forum!
Sent from my iPad

[XRaySpeX]

Use the Camera icon above your text to upload an image file to here.

[Psell]

Sent from my iPad

[XRaySpeX]

There's nowt there!

[XRaySpeX]

Posted in the open:

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@Psell wrote:

This is the page

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[XRaySpeX]

It's not much use w/out the port forwards filled in.

[XRaySpeX]

Posted in the open:

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@Psell wrote:

Have a range of port forward No’s, nor sure which to use.                                                      
Background, I have a gate intercom and since switching broadband from Sky to EE I am not receiving notifications to my I phone, have spent a couple of hours on the phone with the intercom manufacturers tech team to eliminate a hardware fault, all good no faults. They say it can only be a closed port causing it, they think 443, but have given me a range of others to try 80/10002/10005/13140/8600, as you can imagine I have no idea which to use and in which combination, spoken with EE so called technical help, they have no idea and don’t have a level two technical dept for broadband.

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[XRaySpeX]

If you don't know what ports need forwarding & the device manufacturer doesn't either, we can't tell you what they should be. EE block no outgoing ports. Port forwarding is only needed for unsolicited access to incoming ports. I would say:

1. If no port forwarding was needed with Sky, nor would it be with EE.
2. Ports 80 (HTTP) & 443 (HTTPS) are used for Web Servers (as you often see in your browsers) & are almost always used for outgoing ports (unless you yourself are running a Web Server on a PC). So if your device manufacturer is mentioning them he is almost certainly talking only about outgoing ports & clearly doesn't know what port forwarding is.

All the same, show me the Port Forwarding page filled in with what you tried but it wouldn't Save.