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Well, I'm trying to get a home-based radio station set up, but it seems no one can connect to my IP / Port.

I try to connect to my ip address and I get a page saying access is denied, but when I try to use my IP and port 8000 (the default to connect with the radio) I get page cannot be displayed.

I called my ISP and they say the don't block ports.

Any help solving this problem would be nice.

Your ISP may not block ports, but sometimes routers and certain modems do. What kind of modem and/or router are you on? You may need to go to your router's IP address and manually enable the ports in there.

Speedstream 4200 series.

I don't have a router.

The SpeedStream Modem/Router contains an HTTP server that allows you to connect to the Router and configure it from your Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, versions 5.0 or later).
In the Address bar, enter the default router IP address: http://speedstream and press Enter. This displays the “Gateway Administrator Setup” window.

The first time you connect to the Router via the Web browser, you must set up an administrator account on the “Gateway Administrator Setup” window before you can proceed.
Specify a user name for the administrator. You may accept the default user name, admin, or enter a new user name in User Name.

To configure port forwarding:
1. Select Setup>Port Forwarding from the left navigation pane of the Web interface. This displays the “Port Forwarding Configuration” window.


2. Under Add/Edit Entry, do one of the following: • Select the service you want to configure from the Select service by name drop-down menu. • Select the protocol you want to configure from the Select protocol drop down menu. This can be TCP, UDP, ICMP, or GRE. If you select TCP or UDP you must also specify either a single port or range of ports that apply.

3. Select one of the following: • Redirect selected protocol/service to this router Select this option if you want inbound traffic forwarded to the SpeedStream. • Redirect selected protocol/service to IP address Select this option if you want inbound traffic forwarded to a host located on the LAN. In this case, you must specify the IP address of the host on which the server resides.

4. Click Apply.

To configure NAT/NAPT functionality:
1. Select Setup>NAT/NAPT from the left navigation pane of the Web interface. This displays the “NAT/NAPT Configuration” window showing the WAN Interface connections.

2. Select one of the following for the desired connection:
• NAT & NAPT Disabled Disable both NAT and NAPT in order to, for example, to set up static routes assigned by your ISP.
• NAT Only Enabled Enable NAT and specify the destination IP address for incoming packets. Depending on your configuration, NAT is sometimes enabled by default.
• NAPT Only Enabled Use NAPT only to handle multiple addresses based on port forwarding rules.
• NAT&NAPT Enabled Some service providers support a concurrent NAT/NAPT. Under this configuration, a single WAN interface may support multiple NAT connections with each NAT connection again exposing a single LAN-side host through a single WAN-side public IP address. Through either NAT or NAPT, the Router ensures that the LAN-side host is known to the WAN side only through the public IP address of the Router’s WAN-side connection. The host’s actual private IP address remains unknown to any WAN-side hosts or servers.

3. Click Apply when you have finished configuring all desired connections.


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