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Old 31-10-2018, 09:50   #5
General Maximus
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Re: Opening ports on a Virgin Hub 3.0

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Originally Posted by geoffchesh View Post
Thanks - I thought of that, but the device does not have an IP address yet. Not sure how the port forwarding words without one of those
I have never used any shub in router mode so I am not au fait with the gui but on a normal router you would connect the device to your network, let the router see the mac address and assign it an ip address and then go into a lan management/dhcp leasing option and assign a static ip address to the device.


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Originally Posted by ianch99 View Post
The path of least resistance is to use Modem Mode and buy a reasonable router. My pick is the ASUS RT-AC68U.
me too, and an example of what I have already described above is below and this is how easy and straight forward things should be if you have a proper router:



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