why can't i understand why my pcanywhere isn't working properly?

Question

i've installed it on 2 machines on the same network. a network involving only a wireless router which gives us our ip addresses. I installed pc gateway because that's supposed to make it so my computer can be behind a router. and it just doesn't work. i can't seem to figure out what's wrong, and I've tried many things. I tried fowarding ports on my router and set up static ip addresses for my computers and they are set up not to aquire addresses automatically.
I know my external ip address, i've got it memorized because i've typed it in about 400 times this week. that address never changes. so i'm assuming i have a static ip address from my isp? it's optonline cable if that makes a difference.

Answer 1

Don't Assume anything.

Answer 2

Try LogMeIn instead, it's free and passes through routers easily.