Port opening firewall...thing...

[ZeroSplice]

Okay, I'm the weakest network n00b out there.

2 weeks ago, eskom shed us and my router went bust as a result. It was still under warranty so I got new one. (pc mall, good service)
Now the problem is, I cannot gain access to certain sites after installing the router that were fine before being shed.

So, I managed to get onto the forums of one such site and I was told to open port 80 in my firewall.

Now as far as I know, all my firewalls are off XP, AVG (no firewall afaik) but perhaps my routers one is on. So I log on to my router and see no firewall option, then on to my adsl modem and voila, I see 'service ports' and the HTTP is port 80. Bingo! I change it to one within the mentioned range, ie. 59998
But it didn't work. Confused

So I changed it back to 80 and even more sites aren't working. Before this site goes offline too, how do I fix this?

Thanks!

Modem - Some Siemens Speedstream I bought at Makro.
Router - Netgear RP614v4

btw, it looks like international is down too and some local as well. This is bad.

 

[hashbrown99]

Have you tried this? It solved my problems

http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm

 

[Scooby_Doo]

reset it back to factory defaults and see if that helps. ps you will need to put your adsl username password in again.

 

[ZeroSplice]

Gonna try that now.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

remember that any services which are portforwarded also have access to the PC the ports are being forwarded to...

 

[ZeroSplice]

Okay resetting yielded no change.

Also, under port forwarding in my netgear setting shows nothing.

Oh man...

 

[PostmanPot]

Okay resetting yielded no change.

Also, under port forwarding in my netgear setting shows nothing.

Oh man...

Search "port forward/ing" on these forums, there ought to be results specifically for Netgear.