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[XXXconanXXX]

Ugh, you have to have a Static IP address to open up ports in your router. Ryoko said you can use a lease IP but I think that's for certain router's because I couldn't find it on mine. Dynamic IP is the default IP address on routers. You have to set it to Static to open ports on alot of them. And yes, I'm stumped about that because usually routers say like "enter your password" or something like that. It shouldn't have you enter your email or something. Your probably aren't going to the router but Comcast is redirecting you or something. I have no idea what a pseudo-Static IP is but I'm pretty sure most routers don't have that. I've looked through some of the different routers on www.portfoward.com and all of them say the same thing but give you a different screenshot as router setup pages are different.

 

[Dtere]

Rin: The default local IP address for MOST (not all) router settings is 192.168.1.1

The default password on most routers is either "admin" or left blank.

After you get into the router settings, you need to find the port forwarding part of the settings, and enable the ones you need enabled.

 

[SD_Ryoko]

Originally posted by XXconanXXX
Ugh, you have to have a Static IP address to open up ports in your router. Ryoko said you can use a lease IP but I think that's for certain router's because I couldn't find it on mine. Dynamic IP is the default IP address on routers. You have to set it to Static to open ports on alot of them.

I don't use static adresses.

No, I didn't mention it in the tutorial. But routers like mine have an option for IP Lease experation. When its not set to expire, you can shut them all down, boot them back up, and they will have the SAME ip.

Static addresses are a lan party nightmare. Thats why we don't use them on ours.

Yes, its conditional. No, you can't insist on having to have a static IP.