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Originally Posted by gunner45
This is a failure of Hairpin NAT (NAT Loopback). Hairpinning means when a router receives a packet from LAN addressed to its own WAN IP, it should loop the packet back into the LAN and forward it to the correct internal host - but the hub does not properly support hairpinning. The solution is to put the hub into modem mode, use a router which supports Hairpin NAT and set up your port forward on the new router.
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Thanks, so the solution is buy another router, when I just need my virgin to do one thing that is advertised as being able to do. I was afraid this would be the answer :-(.
Though I'm not really bothered if a device on my guest network goes out onto the internet only to return via the external virgin IP to access a device on the main network. Speed is not an issue here. What I want is external devices to be able to access the site I'm hosting.