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[Shane]

I'll be here

Shane

[MokiCzech]

Great I edited that post on page 1, but that's kinda hard to notice, so - reposting from page 1:

Okay, so I got login details from my ISP today. I'll have a look into that modem settings and will most likely throw hundred of question onto our head

EDIT: Okay, let's get it started. So, there is a program called WinBox that's terminal for my router. When I log into it, there are so many things it makes my eyes bleed and heart stop.

Do you have any idea which one I should try? I can't find that "DMZ", so I'd just set ports on both routers, that's not such a big deal. Thing is, how to open ports on this?

http://i.imgur.com/4LboU.jpg

EDIT2: I also found this, could it be it? Thanks!

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/NAT_Tutorial

[Shane]

First time I have seen that program. Man they don't make it easy on their users do they lol.

OK so since there doesn't appear to be a DMZ here is what you do.

Log into your router, get its WAN/Internet IP. Write it down.

Now in your modem you are going to setup 2 port forwarding rules.
first rule will be for ports 1000 to 65535 TCP and the IP to point to will be the one you wrote down.
then create the same rule again but this time for UDP.

We are telling the modem to send the incoming connections to your router.

Shane

[MokiCzech]

And can you say, from that screenshot maybe, where can I set these rules up?

Thank you.

EDIT: Last resort would be calling my IPS and telling them to set it up for me. They can do that, right?

[Shane]

I think the best thing to do is call your ISP and tell them you would like to put the modem in bridge mode. Then that way you can have your router setup to have the internet IP.

This way we get the modem out of the way to avoid a future headache

Shane

[MokiCzech]

Okay, so I contacted ISP (I'm lucky he is a friend of mine, so it's not such a big deal) and told him I need to open all ports. I hope he'll do it and I'll/You'll have it out of hands I'll let you know how did it go. Thanks!

[MokiCzech]

Okay, so he opened said ports (1k-65k; UDP, TPC) and it was working when I tried them first time (27000 - open). Now they show as closed and I can't connect to my modem (just by throwing IP into address bar), but they are probably open, modem is just offline for some reason (probably ISP fault). Weird enough, internet works well. Anyway, I guess there's no reason for false alarms, I'll give it a few hours to see if my router goes into online-like mode. I tried turning it off and on, but I still can't connect to it.

Will let you know how it turns out, but I think we are gettin' to end of the problem

[Shane]

Yeah try the port tester again and see.

Let me know

Shane

[MokiCzech]

Yeah try the port tester again and see.

Let me know

Shane

By the way, I tried Czech language and it's from translator, right? If you want, I can help you out with translation (not really with specific special words, because I am not at all expert at this, but with some regular phrases). That might be nice counter-service for your free help

[Shane]

 
http://forums.pcwintech.com/index.php/topic,1011.0.html

Shane

[MokiCzech]

Okay, funny story. So, after my ISP opened these ports, they were okay for a few minutes, then my router went suddenly offline (I can't connect to it, it just doesn't load the router page). Thing is, neither can my ISP. So it looks like the router got hacked through UDP ports, and it requires a hard reset and complete reconfiguration, so they'll have a look on it on Monday. Wish me luck 

[Shane]

I highly doubt your modem got hacked. It sounds like your modem is faulty.

I had another user I was helping who had a D-link. Every time he put in a port forwarding rule the internet would drop.

Right now your internet still works. But your port forwarding doesn't and you can't get into the pages. Sounds like a bug, not a hack

Besides, what would be the point of a hack that keeps the internet going but simply kills port forwarding. For a hacker to get on your system they would need port forwarding lol.

Shane

[MokiCzech]

I highly doubt your modem got hacked. It sounds like your modem is faulty.

I had another user I was helping who had a D-link. Every time he put in a port forwarding rule the internet would drop.

Right now your internet still works. But your port forwarding doesn't and you can't get into the pages. Sounds like a bug, not a hack

Besides, what would be the point of a hack that keeps the internet going but simply kills port forwarding. For a hacker to get on your system they would need port forwarding lol.

Shane

I see. Well, that's what they told me. They also said that it would be better idea to just open specific ports, but since I am passionate gamer, and every game you host usually needs some specific port, that's a bit meh. But I guess they can show me how to open ports myself.

Well, what would be the point of a hack on my PC, since there's totally nothing worthy of stealing :D Anyway, why are hackers actually hacking those modems? For fun? Or they can steal info from your PC? Or connect to your Internet service and use it for themselve?

Thanks

[Shane]

No one hacked your modem lol

Your ISP doesn't realize you are still behind another router. So your are not exposed. All the connections are going to the other router, from there you have only the ports you need open.

Your ISP thinks have opened all those ports to your computer

A router is a hardware based firewall. You are still protected

Shane

[Evan]

As long as your computer is still getting a private IP address that isn't routable on the internet through the NAT ability of the other router you're still protected from random hacking attempts. The only traffic that will be allowed through your router is if a program from your computer is requesting the traffic or if you have ports forwarded to allow traffic through. In other words...what Shane said.   

Evan