Belkin N+ Router Issues

[clhockey]

I have a Belkin N+ router, which is an upgrade from my Belkin G router that I was using. I had great connection and good download speed with the G router and transferred the settings exactly to the N+ router, I can connect but it seems as if I'm not connected to as many peers and hubs as I used to be. I have port forwarding on as instructed by Shareaza. I have my Windows XP firewall turned off. I have the router firewall disabled. My IP address is 192.168.2.2 and that is what I have the ports being forwarded to.

My ISP is Windstream using a DSL Modem Speedstream 4200

DHCP Enabled
Firewall on XP and through router is disabled
Subnet mask is 255.255.255.0
Gateway is 192.168.254.254
DNS is 192.168.254.254

I have ports forwarded to both TCP and UDP as 6346
I have DMZ Disabled

I have Dynamic Connection
I do not have a static IP

My previous router--the Belkin G Plus had a setting for NAT that was enabled...this router has no such setting to adjust

The only difference I could find between the 2 routers was that the G router had a WAN IP of 192.168.254.2 and the WAN IP for the N+ router is 192.168.254.1

My IP address is 192.168.2.2

I do not have a static IP because I didn't seem to need it for the G router. Am I missing something?....I've followed the instructions on portforward.com and have looked at many message boards and help chats and nothing seems to work for me. Help!!!

[old_death]

Can you tell us the result of the connection test? It is available from within the help menu and should make it possible to find the solution for your problems...

[ailurophobe]

I don't understand how you can port forward from 192.168.254.254 to 192.168.2.2 with a 255.255.255.0 subnet mask. Aren't those addresses in different 255.255.255.0 subnets? Have you tried a 255.255.0.0 subnet or moving both addresses to the same 255.255.255.0 subnet?

[cyko_01]

This is what came back when I did a connection test:

Detail log

Data dump: v1.12 (+AA),to=5,ipf=no,ip=173.188.**.28,proxy=,port=55795,lang=en,el=0,php=5.2.13-pl0-gentoo
host=jlh.no-ip.org,path=/connectiontest/index.php,t=2010-06-08T01:15:20Z

Start connection test for TCP...
Get socket.
Attempt to connect to 173.188.**.28 on port 55795.
socket_connect() failed, error 115: Operation now in progress.
(Ignore the previous error reason, it's a timeout instead.)
Close socket.
Done, return code: 'TIMEOUT'.

Start connection test for UDP...
Get socket.
Attempt to bind to INADDR_ANY on any port.
Send /JCT: 3x12 bytes: GND\002sq\001\001\020JCT
Read response:
No proper answer received.
Close socket.
Done, return code: 'NOTHING'.

[old_death]

This basically means that you are not reachable from outside. Could you plz rerun the test while having every single security program (anti virus, firewall, anti spyware,...) disabled? Do the results differ?

[kaffeemonster]

This cannot not work, IMHO.

Look at his WAN-IP once more:
192.168.254.2

It's a private IP-Address, which means he is double NAT'ed. Not only his Neatger is a router and does NAT (and where he maybe configured portforwarding), but some network element before his Netgear does also do NAT. Either his DSL-modem (it is not in pure modem and also acts as a router) or his ISP, in which case he is screwed.

So, check the settings of your DSL-Modem.

Greetings
Jan