Any home networking techies out there?

[sammysamkiani]

Hi and very happy new year to you all!:)-D

I'm having what I think is a small but fundamental issue successfully fully setting up QNAP NAS with BT Home Hub 3. Portforwarding looks like its set up right, but doesn't work :X

Is there any one out there who might be able to help - in exchange for either good karma, a hearty home cooked meal or fee depending on the scale of assistance needed to crack this very very annoying snag?!

Cheers

Sam

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[acm]

Um, why would you be using port forwarding? Your home hub should have an external IP address for the internet, and an internal IP subnet for, obviously, internal use.

For a home NAS system, the NAS box and your PC should be on the same IP subnet. I suspect your NAS is on 169.254.xxx.xxx and your PC is probably on 192.168.xxx.xxx.

Hence they won't see each other.

[Loz]

You need port forwarding to make it visible to the internet, so you can access your files when you are out of the home.

Sam - I have a QNAP. PM me and I'll see if I can help.