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TCP & UDP ports : Advice please? :)

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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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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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    outgoing? Yes if you're sure your computer is clean.
    incoming? Only if you want your computer to be owned.

    Hardware firewall shouldn't affect performance really.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Thanks for the reply. Well, I don't think it is the firewall at all .. but I cant seem to set individual ports for access. I'm flummoxed. Without the ports open, its so sloooooow! :(
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I did a test from the ShieldsUP site (http://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2) and my PC appears to be in full stealth. Is that ok then? :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Full stealth... Who you hiding from ;)

    Can you not open the ports you require, not all of them?

    Oh, what model is the router?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    CoolMe wrote: »
    Full stealth... Who you hiding from?

    Hehehehe ... I am trying to hide from your little hacking fingers! :p
    CoolMe wrote: »
    Can you not open the ports you require, not all of them?

    Well, that's what I was hoping to do BUT I can't seem to find that specifically within the Netgear options ... :confused:
    CoolMe wrote: »
    Oh, what model is the router?

    I have the Netgear DG834PN RangeMax MIMO-G Wireless ADSL Modem Router.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Netgear/DG834PN/BitTorrent.htm

    Scroll down
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    CoolMe wrote: »
    http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Netgear/DG834PN/BitTorrent.htm

    Scroll down

    Aw, what a lil star! :) I wil try that out when I get home tonight. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    You really shouldn't need to forward ports unless you're hosting a game. Basically, if you connect to an online game like CSS, you send out a request to the server, so you initiated the connection and there's no problem. The only problem is if you download yourself a virus by actively downloading it :D

    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.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Thanks for the helpful info, ShyBoy. :)

    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! :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Teagan wrote: »
    Aw, what a lil star! :)

    There's nothing little about me :p
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    CoolMe wrote: »
    There's nothing little about me :p

    That's not what I've heard ... ;)

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I was talking about my height... I'm about 6ft

    What were you on about! :o
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Your little finger! D'uh? :p
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My 'little' finger is most likely the size of your index finger ;)
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