Quote:
Heres a better solution to port forwarding! Ones that is much more safer!
This will only work for Cable and DSL users, not for Wireless users.
To PING:
1. Start
2. Run
3. Type CMD
4. At the blank DOS screen, type
Code:
IPCONFIG
and then press enter
5. Write down the string of numbers EXACTLY (Including the dots) for the Default Gateway.
6. Type ping followed by whatever number you wrote down –t. Should look something like this:
Code:
ping 12.345.67.890 –t
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You have no idea what you are doing.
1. This has NOTHING to do with port forwarding and will do nothing but ping you own IP. why would anyone want to do that as all it does is cause your PC to work hard at doing nothing.
2. it will work with any IP, it has nothing to do with cable, dsl or wireless
3. All port forwarding does is connect ports from a private ip (the one your router gives you) to an outside port when using NAT.
port forwarding is not something evil that allows you to get hacked. The original poster is very correct in what he said. I would use port triggering over forwarding, but if I needed to use port forwarding I would and not worry one bit. If you want to see what port you already have open run the command netstat -an from a DOS window.
On to the explanation of what is really going on....
-t means 'time' which means when you ping an IP it will do it as many times as you specify.
Example
ping 10.100.100.101 -t15 will cause it to ping the IP you listed 15 times
The only thing you should be trying to do is see if toontown is dropping packets by pinging the TT IP and setting a number of times. I would not let it do it continously since you will manually have to read the lines instead of getting a report at the end stating how many packets were dropped.