Closing ports on a Westell 327W?

Question

Basically the topic, I have a Westell Versalink 327W for my AT&T(Formerly bell south) DSL connection and I need to close 2 ports that some things that may be lagging me are connected to.

I searched just about everywhere possible and I can't find any information on closing ports with this router, only opening them.

Anyone ever done this on this router before?

Answer 1

Well, I don't know that this will help but, ALL PORTS on nearly all routers are closed to INBOUND traffic by default!

If a computer inside the network makes a request and traffic is returned to it on a particular port then and only then is the port allowed as it is a response to a request! If that didn't happen you wouldn't be able to use the internet at all.

This is the reason that you have to "port" forward for games etc. Those ports won't work unless you specifically ALLOW them to a specific machine! (These port forwards cause INBOUND traffic to be directed to a particular machine -- that is why you have to be VERY CAREFUL about what you open, it creates holes into which crackers can reach a particular machine!)

So start unplugging the other machines that are connected and find out which one is using the ports you are concerned about. That is where your "delay" will be caused - assuming its an internal issue and not your ISP or basic internet traffic issues.

Answer 2

flow to command instantaneous and style ipconfig/launch.this command will launch your present day ip handle and then style ipconfig/renew that gets you the recent ip handle out of your dsl modem. which would be your new dynamic ip handle