As the title says I have a NETGEAR D-1005E hooked up directly to my modem. I'm currently using this as a lightning storm fried my other switch, however upon installing this my TS server I've hosted on my home network has gone down, upon further investigating I discovered that my ports were being blocked, why exactly is it doing this? From my limited knowledge of networking shouldn't this switch simply pass on the data? I'm not able to port foward the switch either as it has no gateway page or anything like a router and the manual provided said nothing. Is there anything I can do to fix this?
Is the model # FS605? Games like that use a networking feature called UPnP (Universal Plug n Play) to dynamically open inbound ports on the router. That doesn't appear to be a managed switch, but does boast Layer 3 Light features. To make sure it *is* the switch and not something in your modem/router, directly connect your computer to the modem/router and see if you still have the same issue. If your modem doesn't function as a full-featured router (DHCP, firewall, etc.), you may have to reboot it before it will route traffic for the just-connected PC. If it turns out the switch is the issue, since it doesn't appear to have any managed features, you'll be replacing it. I recommend a gigabit switch. It's capable of 10 times the speed between systems on your LAN and there is a good chance their network interfaces are capable of that speed (no harm if not). Also consider the use of a UPS to condition the power line and protect your equipment.
Use your ISP router as your default gateway. Plug it into the switch, and enable all ports open on the NETGEAR switch itself. Limit the open ports on your ISP router, and it should work. However, use PuTTY to remote into a switch, it's so much easier and you can create BAT files to automate setup steer away from web interfaces during config.
Your default gateway should be 192.168.1.1 if your ISP uses a Class C IP addressing scheme (Which they normally do)
NB: Factory default this before doing it.
Edit: Take some advice from the above post, UPS units and surge protectors are a must.
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