Hello
I just bought a D-Link DSL 504 Modem/Router
to share a Mac on OS9 and a PC on WinMe on
broadband DSL. I got broadband in part for
conferencing and interactive games. Neither
of these work from behind the router, which it
now appears is a standard problem which
requires Router config magic. No answer from
D-Link of course, nothing in their RFQs, etc..
In short I need to understand how to make
interactive and video connections from behind
a shared Internet connection on a router which
has NAT/DMZ/DHCP technologies. Can it be
done and how? I can see its possible to turn
off/mess with NAT and DHCP, put one of the
devices in the DMZ,and “re assign” PORT
numbers, but no idea how and from what to
what and know I will lose everyhting I do have
if I mess with it unknowingly.
I know this problem is widespread so is there
a white paper or monograph about my
problems – internet video conferencing and
games for shared connection dummies – step
by step?
I do have the PORT numbers for all sorts of
applications from
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/a
pp_port_list.htm, totally useless without
explanation and no idea how they map to the
Router config settings, nothing in D-Links stuff
tells you..
I tried this elsewhere but definitive answers for
a typical power home user are hard to find.
Maybe its just too diffcult to do? Is it me or is
this just extreme technology that isn’t ready for
prime time?
Thanks for guidance either way. I have little
more time to waste on D-Link. Should I quit or
try to make it work?
I need a “make camer/games work” button….
Brian Catt
01144 193 277 2371