Help with internet router & port forwarding settings?

Question

I used to have just a normal router to share internet connection between mine and my husband's computers. Recently my husband brought home a new wireless firewall router. After a long 'playing around' with the setting, he finally got the wireless router to work, but only to realise port forwarding is blocked when using this new router and can't seem to get the settings right to allow port forwarding. Finally decided to change back to our old standard router, only to find that port forwarding is still blocked and can't get it to work the way it used to work.
We even tried and pressed the reset button on the standard router, didn't seem to work. It feels like from changing to the wireless router and back, some settings are changed without us knowing what is it.
Is there any suggestions? Anything I should be checking? Please help, coz now it's stopping me from doing things I used to be able to do, like downloading and listening to online radio stations. Thanks so much...

just a question to mrgone2a's response - which computer should we use the site from? or it doesn't matter?

Answer 1

Port forwarding all works the same. The most important thing is to make sure your HOST computer has a static IP address assigned to it -- if you rely on DHCP you're going to run into problems.

Answer 2

Is your husbands pc also blocked? Here is a site to help,you understand port fowarding......http://portforward.com/default.htm