[junglist_matty]

I am having trouble forwarding ports on my BT Home Hub 2.0, I have setup a VNC server on my desktop machine at home, I have set this up to use port 2020.

On my laptop (on my home LAN) if I open a web browser and type "192.168.1.199:2020" I get the VNC viewer applet in the web browser and can control the PC through this remote interface.

So I login to my BT Home Hub and I manually setup the port forward settings:

Protocol: Any
Port Range: 2020 to 2020
Translate To: 2020
Protocol: Any
Trigger Port: 2020


Accessing my VNC server just isn't working which is really strange because I'm 110% that I've set everything up properlly! Maybe its time to sack off the crappy BT router and get something that actually works... I used to have this setup perfectly in my last house with a different router.


Any ideas?

[JohnWill]

I suggest using the standard ports for VNC, which would be 5900 for the first (or only) screen.

Next, try GoToMyVNC to test if your firewall rules are all good and it can see the VNC server.

[junglist_matty]

I've tried pretty much everything I can think of, I've even tried forwarding for another application and it won't work. Tried changing to various different ports;

5800 (default VNC port - for viewing in a web browser)
5900 (default VNC port)
8000
9000

None of the above work... So I decided to fire up Azuerus (Torrent software) because its got a NAT tester, but even this didn't work so I can only conclude that the home hub just can't do port forwarding, then I found out it was made by Speedtouch and my previous speedtouch router didn't do port forwarding either (in fact it crashed when you applied port forward settings!)


So I thought I'd check that my router is using the latest firmware and if not, update to the latest...

I check my version and it says version 4.7.5.1.83 (Type B)

So I check google for latest and the latest is 6.2.2.6



What the hell? I only got this router less than 2 months ago!!! So I attempt to start the upgrade thinking login to the router over HTTP and click a button update firmware... No such button exists, turns out its an over complex procedure that requires a whole host of software to be installed on a machine inside the LAN and routing through the BT website there are loads of broken links so you can't even work out how to do it!

All in all, avoid:

- BT broadband
- Speedtouch routers

My solution: Put home hub on eBay; buy a netgear

[JohnWill]

Good move, I thought the device was supplied by your ISP. I'd never buy one of those turkeys!