Hey phish, thanks for taking the time to reply.

The router I have is a D-Link DI-604 model. It does not have the public IP address on the main page, but I've taken your word for it thus far and did some troubleshooting.

What I have done thus far is configure the port-forwarding options so that anyone who attempts to connect to the router on a port suchas 3433 is forwarded to the IP address of the server and to its port 22.

Still though, it does not work. However, while troubleshooting a couple of interesting things happened. I am using PUTTY for a client and when I enter the public IP of the router and the port 3433, the connection will time out. Now, when I enter the LAN IP of the router '192.168.0.1' and then the port 3433, a message will come up saying the connection was refused.

So I am thinking that the server may not be configured to accept outside connections like you said. If so, is there a quick way to reconfigre that? Also are there any other possible reasons for this occurance?

Thanks for your time.