Port Forward Help. BT Home Hub v2.

Hi All,

I'm trying to forward a port on my BT Home Hub v2 but not having much luck. I followed the guide here to forward port 9091, and then went to Open Port Check to see if it had opened. It hadn't.

I then went into the advanced settings of my home hub and turned the routers firewall off completely, by selecting the option:
All traffic is allowed to pass through your BT Home Hub to your devices.

I then went back to the port checker and it tells me the port is still closed. Am I missing something?

Thanks

 

Are you using a static IP? When you set the port to forward to 9091 to local IP address, if it is not static (DHCP) your computer may not be on that IP address anymore.
Looks like that router can use MAC or a friendly name
"Then, under the "Device" heading, select the device to want the application to connect to, in other words, the target machine that you want to forward the port to (such as your PC, or in this example, your Slingbox). Hopefully, the device will have a friendly name that you can recognise, but in some cases, you'll only see the device Mac address (e.g. "Unknown-01-1a-2b-3c-4d"). Each device that connects to your Hub will have a unique ID (the Mac address), which may be printed on the hardware. You can remove devices, or rename them to something more friendly from the Home Hub's Configuration > Devices menu"

Check the port at sheildsup at the GRC website.