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TCP & UDP ports : Advice please? :)
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I am wondering if my new Netgear is slowing down my network performance when online gaming. I know there is a firewall built in, so is it okay to open up all TCP & UDP ports?
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incoming? Only if you want your computer to be owned.
Hardware firewall shouldn't affect performance really.
Can you not open the ports you require, not all of them?
Oh, what model is the router?
Hehehehe ... I am trying to hide from your little hacking fingers!
Well, that's what I was hoping to do BUT I can't seem to find that specifically within the Netgear options ...
I have the Netgear DG834PN RangeMax MIMO-G Wireless ADSL Modem Router.
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Aw, what a lil star! I wil try that out when I get home tonight. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
If you forward ports, someone will send a connection request to your router, which will see you have forwarded the ports, and pass the request onto your PC. If you forward all the ports, people could send you any malicious request on any random port and it would go straight through and you computer could explode.
The full stealth thing is because its only your router that is connected to the internet, and unless they're very very clever and can manipulate your router, unless you specify the router to pass connection requests onto you you'll be fine. Doing it for certain port ranges for certain games can help though, it depends on the kind of game.
Well, the 'help' for both the torrent software and the games, say that TCP/UDP port forwarding needs to be enabled on those particular ports.
When I got the router a month or so ago, it seemed fine - and then just suddenly seemed to slow down. Opening up the ports seems to have made everything quicker BUT obviously, I was kinda worried that ALL the ports were open (although the ShieldsUP site did say that it was unable to pick up any response from probing the router).
I shall give CoolMe's link a try tonight and will close them all down again and just open a couple of them, as required.
You guys are very kind for helping. Thank you!
There's nothing little about me
That's not what I've heard ...
What were you on about!