Noone can connect to my server

OK i read a VERY simmilar problem on the boards allreayd but since i have different hardware i figured id ask for myself. Noone can connect to my server through my IP on port 4000. Now i DO have a router which is Blitzz Netcruiser model BRT200 and my ISP is medicom cable. Im not worried about altering anything on my connection seeing as im the only one who uses it for anything other than e-mail. I really wana get my mud goin so me and my friends can get goin with it, so ANY info is very much appreciated.
Also my AIM sn is ffefalcon if you need to get ahold of me for my ip and such.
Thanks in advance :)

Usually the problem is a blocked port by the router. Go into your router settings and make it forward port 4000 to the local IP of whichever computer your running it on.

As long as you arent running private IP addresses and your ISP isnt blocking incoming telnet it should be fairly easy to configure the router to forward requests to your server. If you are on a private IP you *have* to do forwarding on the router and if your ISP has blocked incoming telnet at their firewall, well, yer pretty much screwed.

ok on to the next problem, i just downloaded the configuration software, but i dont have the password, and my isp, who set my router up doesnt have it either, do you know where to get that?

ok i looked through the pdf file and found that factor restet "should" reset the password to nothing, but it says that is an incorrect password, that and when i do search for device it comes up with a weird name like ååå except with y's and from my experience that usually means somethings really wrong, and its not showing an IP for that "device"

Why do you need to search for the device? If your in windows, run winipcfg with "run", and look at your default gateway, that will be the ip that your router is using on your lan(usually its 192.168.2.1 or 192.168.1.1 as far as I know). You should be able enter that IP in your browser and connect to the firmware on the router. This is usually what I do when I'm setting up routers for other, though I've never used your router in specific.

Most have a default password, and its more often than not "admin", for both pass and user.

Most routers have a reset button somewhere on them, if you push and hold that button, that might also reset the password if your ISP put one on there. Might also try the password that your ISP supplied for you for your internet connection, they might have set it to that. Hope that helps.

ok well i figured out how to get there but when i tried to port forward 4000 nothing connected to net unless constantly sending/receiving data (like a mud) works. Should a try another port? and if so which one?

Do you mean it times out? Some routers do that, and in some cases you can disable it.

i dunno i tried port forwarding and disconnected the router for 30 seconds to see if that helped and still nothing connected, i then tried to forward ports 1-65000 and everything else connected except for the server

Can *you* connect to it on localhost?

Forwarding all port to your computer is pretty much only going to cause problems, and didn't work, as you said. Are you running any sort of a firewall that might be blocking it? If so, you need to open that port as well. Also, try calling your ISP, ask them if they have blocked incomming telnet connections.

i can connect through local host, and my rouyter apparently has a firewall but port forwarding SHOULD (in my mind) bypass it. As for the ISP i called them before even posting on here and they said their open and dont block ANYTHING

It doesn't nessecarily disable the firewall, double check that, or disable the firewall it self to test.

it doesnt give a way to shut the firwall down on it as far as i could see

Port forwarding and firewalling are two different things. Port forwarding means it forwards an incoming connection (to the router, basically) to the nominated PC.

Firewalling means whether or not an incoming connection is permitted.

just looked through my router again, the only thing i could see haveing to do with the firewall is packet filtering which is where port forwarding is at, and i cant see any place else in the router than you can stop or let a port go through

I was originally refering to a fire wall running on your computer, it probably defaults to allow localhost through.

i dont have one as of yet, im running off of windows 98 and didnt come with a firewall and have been too lazy to get one

If your able to connect to localhost, but others are not able to connect, then we can assume that you cannot connect using your IP, instead of localhost?

correct

Ok, so in your router settings, your fowarding port 4000 to the IP of your computer on the local network, and not to the IP that you ISP assigned you, yes?

as far as i know of yes, doesnt give an option of where to forward it

uhhh, it doesn't give an option where to forward it? That might be the problem, you have to specify where. Try looking through the other options in your router setting for something using ports and ip's, cause you need to specify where it goes in your LAN.

well i just tried to set my ip as a DMZ host and it again blocked everything that wasant on a con stant connection, like i couldnt use my web browser anymore

You tried to set your local IP, or your ISP IP? I don't know about your, but mine is in the advanced tab, under forwarding, but this probably won't help much. Just keep looking for a section that involves a port and a local IP, make sure its enabled. It may also ask if you want TCP or UDP forwarding. Again, this is all based on mine, I don't know about yours. Does your router have an online manual? If so, whats the adress, I can look through it.

yea at www.iblitzz.com/product/spec.asp?mn=BRT200 click the download icon and itll bring up the manuals, the only place i found that involves port and says port forwarding is in pack filtering, it also askes if you want TCP or UPD

Indeed, try this:

Go to the Virtual Server section, choose by port, select one of the options in application, I think, select TCP, you want to forward a single port, and specify the IP of your computer on the LAN. Thats the area that you want. In the manual, its on page 23 in the PDF file.

allright it finally is seeing that IP but it wont connect still, before it wouldnt even show that the IP was connecting on my client

n/m i got it thanks SO much for your help dude i dunno if i woulda gotten it without your help :)

Not a problem at all, thats why we're here.

or not, i can connect to it but my friend cant yet, i never could connect to it from my ip and port before now tho...

So, now entering your ISP IP and the port, you can connect, as opposed to localhost, but your friend cannot?

ISP IP? i thought you ment to IP you get from wnipcfg which is a 192.168 IP. And i entered that and gave my friend that IP and he still cant connect

192.168.xxx..... is your local IP address... of course only you can connect to it. You need to give people your "real" IP address, that is, your public, Internet one.

no, you don't want him to connect to that one. You have 2 ips to worry about: the one that your computer has across the network(assigned by the router), and the one that your router is assigned by your ISP. To get THAT IP(the one that you want your friend to connect to), you can get it in your router information.

wow man im a freakin idiot :D i had JUST realized that a few seconds ago and got it to work thanks for working through my idiocy with me :)