Connectivity port forwarding (superhub 2)

[buzzer]

i'm having problems opening a port on superhub 2.
it should be straight forward, go into advanced settings, port forwarding and add the rule.

which i think i have done as shown in the image below



for some reason when i test the port its shows as closed....

any idea's what im doing wrong here?

 

[buzzer]

tunred out be windows defender firewall blocking the ports.

added some exeptions in the rules and it finally connected..

 

[buzzer]

was gonna say did you try grc.com shields up to see if it was open?

yep i tried a few of port testers, all were showing as port closed..

when i had a look at my firewall settings i seen two rules which were blocking the service i wanted to use...
changed them aloow and now it working..

i think i had a similer nightmare last time i attempted to open ports..

 

[dazclayton]

superb, the next step would have been to point it at something else to see if it opened then

 

[buzzer]

ineterestingly the shields up page shows my network as not responding to their probes..

so i suppose thats good as well

 

[dazclayton]

Yeah, you can do a user defined port scan so just select the port in question and hit scan, it's good to see you haven't got any common ports open so that's always a bonus against generic port scans.