port forward menu

[BUtchM30]

i have the linksys wrt54g and im doing some port forwarding but I only have spaces for 10 entries. Is their any way to enable more. BF2 alone uses 11. (according to http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Linksys/WRT54G/Battlefield_2.htm)

hope you guys can help me

[Dice]

Do BF2 and the router support uPnP? If so, enabling this could help. Might have to flash the firmware. (If that will even help get additional port-forward entries) May be that you are outgrowing that router.

[=ACID RAIN=]

Are you forwarding for the client or a server?? That seems like alot of freakin ports! I've only ever had to forward 1 port for the games I hosted, and didn't have a problem.

[Dice]

BUtchM30-

I am looking at the site again and on the screenie of the webconfig of the router, on the right side of the port forwarding page, in the blue box is what looks very much like a link: More... Does that give more fields for port forwarding?

[BUtchM30]

BUtchM30-

I am looking at the site again and on the screenie of the webconfig of the router, on the right side of the port forwarding page, in the blue box is what looks very much like a link: More... Does that give more fields for port forwarding?

the more part just gives more detail about the page, nothin else

[BUtchM30]

i found a page on flashing my router...i might try that since it the router i have is one of the supported on this pagehttp://lifehacker.com/software/router/hack-attack-turn-your-60-router-into-a-600-router-178132.php

[BUtchM30]

Are you forwarding for the client or a server?? That seems like alot of freakin ports! I've only ever had to forward 1 port for the games I hosted, and didn't have a problem.

Im not hosting any games...ive never done this before and i stumbled along that page and I thought it couldnt hurt to try....im really dumb when it comes to this stuff but if it will help my connection, then what the hell...right??

[Dice]

the more part just gives more detail about the page, nothin else

Of course it isn't that easy! :bang head :p

Have you filled them all up? I don't know if more just 'automagically appear' but in the tutorial, it clearly shows 10 fields in the screenshot, and 11 one-by-one entries.

[BUtchM30]

"We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. Battlefield 2 requires you to forward the 80,1500-4999,16567,18060,27900-27901,28910,29900-29901,29910,29920,55123-55124,55215 ports. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Port Range Forward menu. "

this is what it says to do for bf2

[BUtchM30]

yeah i filled all 10 lines and no extra line popped up

[JamesXP]

Try

www.dd-wrt.com

See if your router is supported. (version etc.)

[illuminati11_13]

Try

www.dd-wrt.com

See if your router is supported. (version etc.)

If his router is version 5.0 or later I doubt that it will work. The earlier versions had a Linux based firmware, 16mb of local disk space and 4mb of ram. With version 5.0, they cut the ram and disk space in half and replaced the firmware. A lot of third party firmwares for it can't run on the newer versions.

They did take the old version and repackage it as a WRT54GL, but that's not what we're dealing with here.

[=ACID RAIN=]

Im not hosting any games...ive never done this before and i stumbled along that page and I thought it couldnt hurt to try....im really dumb when it comes to this stuff but if it will help my connection, then what the hell...right??

Then why forward any ports at all? This is typically for a server, never for a client, since requests coming from inside the network are expected to receive replies, which the router allows through by default.

[BUtchM30]

Then why forward any ports at all? This is typically for a server, never for a client, since requests coming from inside the network are expected to receive replies, which the router allows through by default.

see that just goes to show my knowledge about this..and thats why im here
thanks for all the input guys

[=ACID RAIN=]

Glad I could help :)