After a few months of not ever being able to port forward for games and such I’ve finally found out it’s actually a firmware issue with my router while spending 2 hours trying to port forward for a RAT. Any suggestions on ways to un-fuck what Telstra decided I didn’t need? I kinda just figured when they changed the gateway I didn’t know how to use it anymore and it was my fault on the handful of occasions I spent 5 minutes trying to port forward stuff, but upon further research it seems they just broke it and on posts about it did their standard “lol k we’re not gonna do anything but thanks for your money” response.
Is it your own provided router or one of theirs? All in one or modem and router separately?
@reportingscammers007#68136 Router they provided, after talking to my brother is seems that Telstra decide to lock you out of the feature but don’t tell you and make it look like it’s still there, which is kinda dodgy. Got a router from D-Link but still can’t get it working when I connect that, so looks like my only option is to buy a new router or push the RAT through an already opened port. Tried 443 but it didn’t work.
Try 80 8080 88 21 23 25 and 3389
@nickexp#68155 If it is the router Telstra provided after NBN rolled out “Telstra NBN Connection Kit”, I believe that after you connect to it you can’t change back to an old one or use another one. I could be wrong though. The last time I port forwarded was with my old D-Link router, so I would not know if my Telstra router is broke.
factory reset it!
@MrSnake#68166 Done that about 4 times. Has nothing to do with that, Telstra are just cunts and lock you out of the feature entirely for no real reason. They used to let you do it on their old modems but now they’ve decided to force you to get a 3rd party one just to get basic functionality. I genuinely did not think I could hate my ISP more, but spending 4 hours trying to port forward just to have my brother who works at Harvey Norman be like “oh yeah that’s intentional you need another router” was a new level of “go screw yourself” from Telstra, seeing as they don’t post this info anywhere or bother telling you when you call.
@Turdburger#68165 I’m not on the NBN, we got the crappy copper garbage here, but since everyone else moved over our cable connection has actually improved lol
It’s my understanding since this morning that you just need another router/modem to do this, which is super annoying but hey, that’s Telstra’s mantra. Charge more, do less.
@nickexp#68172 Check out Loki, it’s written in PHP and doesn’t require port forwarding.
@Lecter#68174 Downloaded that and trying to set it up, getting it running seems easy enough but there’s 0 instructions on how to actually install the thing in the first place (besides the tutorial on the github page but that seems to be for linux so it’s pretty useless to me since I’m using a windows 7 VM). I’ve installed python but I’m not entirely sure what to do now, all the tutorials seem to have an exe file but I don’t have one and I’m not sure how or what to compile one from?
Telstra is doing some dodgy shit with their port forwarding, I’ve noticed they cut my connection when I have my RAT running on my VM. My VMs don’t even get assigned a DHCP lease when using a bridged connection. Using Telstra “Smart” Router. FW Ver 17.2.0320 (Mint)
It may be an issue on their end tho, so (I'm afraid to say this) call them up and ask them wtf is going on.
