Web Server

This may be a little overboard with forwarding packets, but if they (ISP) are blocking incoming port 80 connections and your web server software only works with port 80, you might consider using a proxy that will forward other packets from a different port to port 80 for the web server. Example: you have your router setup to forward packets on port 8080 to your PC, you have a proxy server installed on the same machine with the web server, this one will intercept port 8080 and forward packets to localhost (itself) to port 80 (which is the web server) It's another bounce around for packets, but this might solve any issues with the ISP blocking port 80 for servers when you can't change the default port for the web server software. You might also see if the router can forward packets to a different port rather than the same port number........

And if I was reading everything correctly :) I would have seen that you already told me about the different port forwarding, strike the last sentence out :D

You'd have been better editing it yourself and hoping nobody noticed ;-)

Some Linksys routers have an option to block WAN requests, which prevents your router from being "pinged" or from being detected. I was trying to tell you this earlier but I had to leave. I'd check to make sure you don't have that option enabled. Otherwise no one could see you to connect.

Thank you all for your help.
Now for an update:
I have since remembered the little detail about DHCP. I have gone back to static addressing so everything will forward correctly. Oops. I have tried to turn off the block WAN request feature, but keeps demanding authorization, which it rejects. :mad: If anybody can tell me as to why my router might pull this crap on me, I would greatly appreciate it. :)

I had the same problem. Started a web server after i got my linksys router, and for the love of god couldnt figure out what the hell was going on, and why it wouldnt accept port 80 from anything out of my LAN. I tried every test i could and figure out that Earthlink blocked port 80 incomming to everyone who had a cable modem, and i assume any broadband service. They wanted me to buy a "business accout" to server, which is much more expensive. My advice to you is to set your port forwarding and web server to port 81 or something similar, or, if you are using Personal web server (runs off IIS 4.0 , and its free, and it supports ASP of course) or another server that doesnt let you change the port, sometimes they also use port 443 by default for a more secure connection, and that works for me.

By the way, something comming in from a file sharing app isnt gonna use port 80 on YOUR computer, if it even does on theirs. Port 80 is only for requesting web site info from a server, it is always sent back on the next available port on your system...is part of the TCP/IP protocal, i think, but its diffinitly in there.

Phison:

I never said file sharing engines use port 80. I brought them up to say that my ISP wasn't blocking ALL incoming connections, which somebody suggested.

Sorry, read it wrong, still hope the gist of the post helped...

What is the exact error message your getting when you try to enable WAN requests?

Jesas it took them long enough to let me post. good god i had to wait a week....

oh sorry.. Anyway about your router login problem: are you still using the default password or are you using a custom one? You said that your firmware sucks. Well if that means that is old could it be that the router's chipset battery is not so good anymore(assuming that router password storage is like CMOS). Just try the default login and password anyway to see if that works. I do belive that a LinkSys cable router's default login is blank and the pass is 'admin'.