samson Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 just a quick question does the bt home hub have a firewall and if it does is there anyway of turning it off? as when i had blueyonder (virgin media) broadband i could host no problem. ps i've tried turning windows firewall off and closing down my anti virus cheers for any help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrighty496 Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 just a quick question does the bt home hub have a firewall and if it does is there anyway of turning it off? as when i had blueyonder (virgin media) broadband i could host no problem. ps i've tried turning windows firewall off and closing down my anti virus cheers for any help you shouldnt need to turn the firewall off in the hub (if it has one, I presume it will have as BT tend to blare on incessantly about their home security in the ads lol), Nascar Heat uses (i think) port 2001 for online games, and you should be able to allow 2-way access through that port only in the hub settings (we've got a netgear router here which has the ports for RF allowed in the same way, that way the firewall blocks all of the general nasties, but ports for RF are set to not have firewall protection) if you can log into the hub, look for port settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samson Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 just a quick question does the bt home hub have a firewall and if it does is there anyway of turning it off? as when i had blueyonder (virgin media) broadband i could host no problem. ps i've tried turning windows firewall off and closing down my anti virus cheers for any help you shouldnt need to turn the firewall off in the hub (if it has one, I presume it will have as BT tend to blare on incessantly about their home security in the ads lol), Nascar Heat uses (i think) port 2001 for online games, and you should be able to allow 2-way access through that port only in the hub settings (we've got a netgear router here which has the ports for RF allowed in the same way, that way the firewall blocks all of the general nasties, but ports for RF are set to not have firewall protection) if you can log into the hub, look for port settings any idea how i would get into my hub settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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