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[LaneLander]

Hi all and thanks in advance for reading. 

I recently got the DGL-4500 as a early Christmas present.  I had been using a netgear WPN824 as my home router.  The reasons to change were the limited bandwidth or throughput.  I pay for a 16MB/2MB service through Comcast and was getting nearly 1/2 that to a worked desktop.  While the wife was worse on wireless.  So she got me this.  I was in bestbuy reading the reviews on  newegg.com and this unit by far had the best responses.  Once installed I Doubled my bandwidth, when testing to speetest.net I was getting 33mb/7mb tests consistently with this router to my desktop.  I am pleased with that do far.  I was able to configure Game rules to COD and UNREAL, but the issue I have is that RDP will not work at all.  On the old box I was able to forward ports without any issue.  RDP is on 3389, enter rule, boom done.  Now on the DGL-4500 it is just not functioning.  Even is I disable the firewall and everything restart the router and try still noting.  I can RDP to the machine while at home but from outside the device it is like not there.

OH I am running version 1.15, the end device is on a static IP.  Any help would be appreciated.

[Lycan]

Try Virtual Server, should work that way.

[LaneLander]

I did that one first but nadda.  I will try now.

[Lycan]

Any anti-virus suites on that machine?

[LaneLander]

Antivirus?  None that were not running before.  I was functional oneday on teh old router.  Thennext after swap.  nothing.  It is like nothing is even getting to the router.  Nothing in the logs at all.

[LaneLander]

Very interesting.  I downloaded NMAP and scanned my router.  Even with the Virtual server up the port is not active.  Actually none of the ports that I have forwarded are open on the IP.  So now I am stumped.

[Lycan]

What antivirus are you running?

[LaneLander]

Mcafee Enterprise.  It does not have a firewall.  Vista firewall has RDP enabled in the firewall. but I have also disabled teh Vista Firewall.  (Does not like it)

NMAP scanned again and NO ports are open at all.

When I get home tonight I will reset to factory and start over.  is tehre anyhting in particular you would like to see?  I saw your other post.

[Lycan]

MacAffee totally has a firewall. Try uninstalling it and see if RDP works.
McAffee does hardware inventory via MAC address.

[funchords]

Ensure that the WAN IP displayed in System / Details is a public IP address.  You might be drawing 192.168.100.xxx which is assigned and routed by the cable modem under certain circumstances.  Click DHCP Release and DHCP Renew -- repeatedly if necessary -- until you get a public IP address instead of an RFC1918 address. 

[LaneLander]

Ok I have to be honest.  Yesterday I was trying all day to connect.  The thing is when I went home there was a power failure at home.  The router restarted but my computer did not.  |I feel like a dufas.  The good thing is that whatever change I made got me connected.  Now I am in the process of restoring levels of secuiry on the router. 

McAfee Enterprise did not have a firewall.