Todd has written on 6/10/2013 4:17 PM:
On 06/10/2013 01:01 PM, Juan Wei wrote:
Todd has written on 6/8/2013 4:23 PM:
Go look how your firewall performs for yourself at
GRC. You are looking for the Shields Up test.

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

If you are shooting through a NAT router (if your
I.P. is 192.168.xxx.xxx, you have a NAT router),
you will need to connect directly to the Internet.


How do you connect directly to the Interne if you have a NAT router?

Thanks.


Okay, most Internet modems provide dynamic addressed to
the local side. If you have a fix IP, then its gets
more complicated and you should call for a nerd.

That said, you take the cable that is going into the NAT
router's WAN (Wide Area Network) port and connect it to
your computer's Ethernet port. If you are using a Cable
Modem (Charter), you will have to power cycle the modem,
as it will only accept one device attached to it at a time.

I have a DSL modem/router (Westell 327W). My desktop computer already
connects to it via Ethernet cable.

Are you thinking of separate modems and routers?