Port Forwarding

The Comcast cable modem (model number SMCD3GNV) is supposed to have port forwarding capabilities, but when I set everything up, the Minecraft server dynamic map wasn’t pulling up.

So, after buying another cable modem and verifying that you can indeed set up port forwarding for my network (Comcast wanted to charge me for their premium service to come out and set it up for me), I called comcast again, and spent several long periods of time being told that it can be set up, but they have to do it. Unsatisfied with this answer, I searched out the manufacturers’ phone number, and got ahold of a tech support person.

It ends up, this specific model is designed so that you can’t connect to your WAN address from the LAN.

Great job, Comcast. None of the 10+ people I talked to in your tech department knew anything about this.

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I have been working with computers for over a decade. I was a computer lab administrator for a number of years, I am familiar with Microsoft and Unix based operating systems, and have worked as a Geek Squad Agent. In addition, I have been designing and administrating websites for the last half a dozen years. I started out programming straight HTML, but for the last year and a half have been studying PHP and SQL in the pursuit of my Information Systems degree. My programming environment of choice is PHP code combined with a MySQL backend, formatted using CSS. I also posses a solid working knowledge of Wordpress and have developed a number of custom plugins, themes, and widgets for that framework.
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