Port Forwarding on Gigaset

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I've got a Siemens Gigaset 762sx and I want to port forward the cod4 port (28960 ), now I found this website http://www.portforward.com/ and they have a step by step readme on how 2 do it, problem is when I get to the point were I need to add the ports to my modem and click add, it says,

( The highlighted local IP address does not lie within the IP address range of your device specified by the subnet mask. Please choose another address. )

I've tried setting up a static IP on my PC and afterwards I can still connect fine to the internet, brows, but I still get that message.

So correct on this information:

Telkom's DNS Servers : 196.25.1.11 and 196.43.1.11

The subnet mask : 255.255.255.255 " I got that from the ipconfig command in "run". But it doesn't want to accept it.

Default gateway : 41.242.121.238

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So can someone just plz tell me what I need to enter and where?

I've also added the ports to my firewall, disabled Kaspersky internet security, still nothing.
 
From your post it seems like you're dialing a PPPoE connection from your PC. In this case you don't port forward at all. So be careful to disable your firewall, because that would make your PC vulnerable, since the router's firewall doesn't protect PC's dialing PPPoE connections.
 
Port forwarding has NOTHING to do with your LATENCY/PING.

Port forwarding is required if you want to host a service (like Web/FTP/Counter-strike/Warcraft servers) and your router is dialing the PPPoE connection.

To lower your ping you have to get an unshaped account.
QoS (quality of service) will reduce your ping when the line is being used by other traffic too while you're playing a game. It won't reduce your ping if the line isn't occupied by any thing else than the game's traffic.
 
CrAzYLeGs69, could you clarify your situation for us? It seems like there is some confusion surrounding your configuration of your router & PC.
Like:
do you have your router set up in bridging mode and then dialing the ISP account from your PC?
or do you have your router set in half-bridge mode?
 
yes it's in bridge mode so that I can use route sentry, I also noticed that after switching to bridge mode that my latencies have increased, is this possible?
And I don't think that my modem supports half-bridge mode.

and yes @ who.is.michael , after getting the msg that I can't use that subnet mask, I entered 255.255.255.0, but to no avail.

But don't sweat geus, thnx for the replies but if port port forwarding wont improve my latencies then it aint that big a deal.
 
switching to bridge mode shouldn't increase the latencies. Most likely that the account you're using isn't the best for gaming.
 
switching could easily increase latencies, since the connection is now established by your PC, and not the router anymore. The router was designed, and optimized for one purpose, to connect & route traffic.

Your PC, on the other hand isn't. I assume you're using Windows, right? Windows isn't a routing / gateway operating system, so the PPPOE / routing / gateway functions in Windows don't take the highest priority and need to share the CPU with a few thousand other threads.

Often times a dedicated Linux router (i.e. no graphics / sounds / MS Office / internet explorer / anti-virus / etc) will perform much better than Windows when it comes to routing as well. Using Smoothwall, or Monowall - you can configure both of them to route local & international traffic over 2 separate WAN links, have an excellent firewall and much more than what you have now.
 
thnx, yeah my OS is WinXp. But still, I've heard that port forwarding can drop your ping by about 20ms , so now I'm terribly confused, btw, I also discovered that you don't have 2 switch your modem to bridge mode in order to use route sentry.
 
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