New router blocking squeezebox

[Gibbo]

Hello,

Had my squeezebox working for a while, now got a new router as have switched form DSL to cable. My squeezebox can access SN through the router, but just times out when I try to access SS? the windows firewall is obviously the same as before, allows through stuff to 9000 and 3483, in the router I hava mac address filtering, but that is obviously fine as it can access SN, I have WPA but again must be fine as SN is accessable, so can only be the router firewall? to be honest I can't find how to turn the firewall off, its a linksys router, in port range forwarding I have forwarded 9000 and 3483 to the computers ip, is this right to do? can't think of what else i'm missin? any help would be great!

[Robster]

Hi

Same kind of problem as you. Had an SB3 working fine with a Linksys router and Virgin cable, now have moved house and have Sky BB with a Netgear DG834GT Router.
My old SB3 connects and plays fine wirelessly. My new Logitech branded SB3 which arrived today will not connect, settings are same and i'm using 128bit wep. Wired it works okay but not wireless. SS version 6.3.1 - 8468

Got same problem with my laptop, will not connect to the new router.
Doesn't make sense, any ideas? Anything different inside the Logitech ?

thanks
R

[snarlydwarf]

Port forwarding should be unneeded, and may in fact confuse things.

It is designed so that "A-Host-On-The-Internet" can connect to "A-Specific-Host-On-Your-LAN"... It should do nothing for LAN-LAN connections.

Other than setting your WPA passkey and your SSID, most consumer routers should take no configuration.

[Gibbo]

Well I've now turned off the port forwarding items I had input and still, access to SN but not SS?

Any ideas?

[Gibbo]

In "advanced routing" the operating mode is set to gateway, what does this mean out of interest? if I change it to router, then I lose access to the internet.

to be honest, don't know if this has anything to do with anything.

[snarlydwarf]

The choices are gateway and router? That is an odd selection.

A Gateway is a "where packets that are not local to this network should be sent". Also called a "default route"...

A router is "a device that knows how to get to 2 or more networks and makes decisions on where to send packets based on its knowlede of those networks."

In most cases, the gateway -is- a router... what good is passing packets onto a supposedly more net-knowledgeable machine if it doesn't know what to do with them...

What model router is this?

[Gibbo]

Its a linksys WRT54GS

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/63763

[Gibbo]

from the router settings

"Operating Mode: If the router is hosting your Internet connection, select Gateway mode. If another router exists on your network, select Router mode.

any ideas on why my SB can't connect to SS?

[bpa]

Basic Question - Is slimserver actually running - can you get the SS web page ?

Do you have any other security s/w installed besides Windows firewall ?

[Gibbo]

bpa your a genius! thank you for asking the right question! just realised when I'd set it up first time i'd just told the f-secure firewall to allow all traffic from the SB ip address, the ip address has now changed given the new router, and had forgotten to tell F-secure that.

all sorted now. cheers folks for the help.