Trying to port forward on a "smart" router? - Hardware & Software

So I've been trying to forward some ports for a few games (Supreme Commander and SWAT 4), and I've never really done it before. I tried to follow some guides in the past from portforward.com, and never really had any success. I'm really determined now though, but I'm not 100% sure if it's even possible for me with this recent new router, or maybe I just screwed up somewhere/the help that I got wasn't all that useful. The routers I've had in the past were the usual routers, that just bring you to a standard router page on the network itself. This one, however, was provided by the ISP and redirects to a router page on their own website for setup/configuring. The benefit of it is that you're supposed to be able to mess with it wherever you are... I can't really think of a use for that, but it's not even my choice to make of having this router. The router is a D-link DIR-868L, and the ISP is Optimum. The UI of the router on portforward.com looks nothing like mine does: https://portforward.com/d-link/dir-868l/DIR-868L3.jpg ^portforward.com https://i.imgur.com/tPD3tsC.png ^mine UPNP was already enabled before I got into the router, and Supreme Commander (or rather, Forged Alliance Forever) automatically adds a temporary UPNP rule everytime I boot it up. Connecting doesn't work with that rule, so UPNP just isn't working for connecting in that game. I tried adding a rule myself (Forged Alliance Forever), where one of them should be 6112, with UDP according to what I found (and figured I should choose my own desktop, the only desktop, as the host: https://i.imgur.com/Yv14n1Z.png Using canyouseeme.org though shows that 6112 isn't open no matter what I do. I checked to see if any other programs were already using 6112 and none are. I tried opening other ports that Supreme Commander needs (9103) and that was a no-go too. I tried forwarding for SWAT 4 next, where the router already had a defined setup for it under services: https://i.imgur.com/VyzGKkE.png I checked 10480-10483 and none of those ports are opened either. I'm not sure what the fuck is going on here. Like I said I'm not sure if I'm doing anything wrong, and a person I asked who actually knows how to port forward has no clue either. Curiously qBittorrent's port works which is added through UPNP, so I don't know why Supreme Commander's UPNP rule doesn't work. I tried using the DMZ Host to forward all to my desktop, which didn't work either. Hopefully I'm just doing something wrong here and this retarded "smart" router nonsense doesn't mean I'm screwed or something for manually porting.

Try disabling the Windows firewall for a short bit as you try to see if it works then. The firewall in Windows is a pretty typical culprit in cases like these.

If you find that Windows Firewall is blocking the port, you can add an exception to allow connections to the port in need instead of disabling it altogether.

unfortunately nothing still opens with firewall turned off

Try putting yourself behind DMZ host. If that doesn't work either, then it's not the router.

Sites like canyouseeme are only able to check TCP ports, not UDP. This keeps coming up over and over again. People keep thinking you can use canyouseeme to check port-forwarding on UDP, but you can't. Only a real game client can perform that test adequately.

In at least the old UI, there's an area where logs are stored If the router is at least sensible, it should log when there's a LAN access from a remote source. This typically will log the remote IP, and their port, as well as the Destination (your PC) and it's port (the one you forwarded). If the router is able to provide such logs, you could also be able to tell if the problem does not lie on the router, but instead the computer But I can't say much without access to at least an emulated web UI, these images are old

Those sites never worked for anything even with DMZ You can also just flash you're router to dd-wrt if you hate the firmware, though beware you can brick your router if your seriously fuck it up.

Is this meant to be a touch screen router or something?

what do you mean by that? as far as i know its the same as any router except it redirects to an online router page instead of offline

If it is a smart router it is clearly touch screen correct?

im pretty sure they only call it smart router because you can fuck with it from anywhere, physically it looks like this https://i.imgur.com/sNZr9ft.png

I can fuck with my router from anywhere As soon as I asked my ISP to unblock the port for webservers that is

hey man i didnt name it. as far as i can tell thats all thats 'special' about it

Sorry, it was a joke in bad taste because smartphones have touchscreens. I can alter my router settings remotely as well though, and I only have a Sky Hub 2 router.