Captain Awesome, on 30 July 2011 - 09:47 AM, said:
Righteous. I've been trying to get online for years, but my ISP doesn't really allow for port-forwarding and all that kinda stuff so it never works.
Captain Awesome, on 30 July 2011 - 11:55 AM, said:
I've tried and tried and tried again and again. It refuses to work. Over the times I've tried I've had three different routers. I've even had very experienced people walk me through the process. It just won't work. I can't even use torrents too often because I just can't connect to anyone.
After I told you to put your DSL modem in bridge mode and just use the wireless access point as a router, your ports opened up just fine. The problem is that your ISP, CenturyLink, is a piece of shit, and you were pinging 400ms, which is abysmal. That's because they use some packet redundancy and other slow things because of a risk of dropped packets. That could be fixed by asking to be put on "FastPath", which removes the safeguards in exchange for a (much) better ping time. However, you couldn't enable that feature.