No one can connect to me?????

[Nero]

Have a Linksys ADSL2MUE modem and a Linksys BEFSR11 v2 router connected to
my only pc.
Can connect and send/get email and do the usual internet things but people
who need to connect to me via VOIP/messenger/netmeeting or anything that
uses my IP address to connect to me cannot.
The modem assigns private ip addresses, no prob, that is passed on to the
router and on to the pc.
I have set the router to DMZ mode, set my pc lan to static IP, both have the
same ip address but still no one can call/connect to me.
Anyone know why that should be?
The router can be set to upnp but most of the programs used to call
me/connect to me are not upnp.

 

[Guest]

Hello Nero,

Well I think There is a Issue with your Firewall. Firewall In your Router or
Modem or Firewall in your System.
May be The Firewall is Allowing the Incoming but not the Outgoing...

Try Uninstalling Firewall ..

Thanks

Aanang Kumar
Support Engineer
Windows XP
Microsoft Corporation

 

[Nero]

When the router is set to DMZ the firewall in it is bypassed.
So that means there is no firewall in use.
Also the software firewall is uninstalled from windows.

 

[Claire]

I have set the router to DMZ mode, set my pc lan to static IP, both have

the same ip address but still no one can call/connect to me.

Hi Nero
What do you mean when you say router and lan pc are same IP address?
They shouldn't be. Each pc on a lan should have it's own individual IP
address.
Its ok for your pc to have a static IP address set up from network config,
but its better practice to set the router DHCP services to do that for you.
..
There should be a router configuration screen somewhere to do this where you
enter the MAC address of your pc network card and you should set the wanted
IP there. for example If the router's IP address is 192.168.0.1, then you
would enter any number between 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.255 for your PC. If
your router is on another local IP address range than the above then you
probably just need to increment the final number of the octet and allocate
that number to your pc eg if router is 10.0.0.1 then your pc should be
10.0.0.2.
In normal LAN situations where there are several pcs, you would also need to
set up a "reservation" of that IP address on the router, so that the router
won't try to give that IP address to anyone else that may log on before your
own pc. In your case, where there's only a single pc, you wouldn't need to
do this.