Hi All,
I have been trying to solve this for the last 4 hours and it's driving me nuts. A lot of the Googling I did led me to threads here, people with the same modem unable to forward their ports properly.
I'm using a HG630b modem which was provided by Telecom. I'm positive my NAT settings are correct to forward my port, but here's a screenshot of them:https://i.imgur.com/uryea0v.png
I have tried adjusting pretty much every setting in the modem to get this working, to no avail, before resetting all the settings back to how they were in the first place. I have opened the ports in Windows Firewall, I have even turned Windows Firewall off entirely in an attempt to get this working. I have updated the firmware on the modem, I have turned the modem firewall off. I've followed numerous websites' troubleshooting tips on port forwarding, nothing.
My friend can't ping my IP, and all port forwarding tests I've tried (such as canyouseeme.org) fail. If I attempt to ping my external IP, I get a response, but I still can not connect to my own server when entering the external IP - only my internal IP.
Regarding the server hosting software, I know all my settings are correct, as when I sent the server files to a friend to run, he was able to load them and I could connect just fine with no modifications to the scripts or settings.
Any help appreciated as I am at a loss.
Cheers