xisle35 wrote:
I've gotten a connection locally from a different computer on my router.
Great, your broadwave pc is going fine.
xisle35 wrote:
when i forward my port to ip 192.168.1.103( which pfportcheck arbitrarily chooses and changes(when i installed it, and did it yesterday, it told me to forward to ip. .101, today, .103 what determines this, there is no option menu?
When your PC connectes to the router, it will either ask the router for an IP address (if it's DHCP enabled) or use an address defined in the PC. You can see which by running the command "ipconfig /all".
If it's DHCP enabled, the router's DHCP server will tell the PC which IP address to use, e.g. 192.168.1.103 as in the example above.
If it's not DHCP enabled, then the address has been set in the TCP/IP properties for the specific connection.
In the case of DHCP, the router will, by default, assign the next free address, as is happening here.
But you can program the router to always give the same PC the same address. In some routers, the function is "static local IP", in others it's "Fixed IP". If you set the broadwave pc to always receive the same address, then that's great. Next, configure the router to port-forward incoming traffic on the broadwave port to that fixed IP address.
Note that if your PC has two connections, e.g. a ethernet wired port and a wireless connection, you will get different IP addresses for each, so you'll need to be sure to specify the right one.
OK, so once you've got the router forwarding the port to the correct fixed IP, your friends should be able to listen.
You need to tell your friends the full URL, using your Public IP address and the Public port number. If you don't know your public IP address, go to the website www.ipaddy.com and it will tell you. Beware that this might change if you power off/on your router, unless your ISP has assigned a your account a static IP address.
Two additional notes:
1. Not every audio client recognises the .ASX in the URL. In this case, just use .MP3 and Broadwave seems to work just the same.
2. You can use a different port number for external listeners: you need to tell your router to also do port translation - e.g. externally-received traffic on port 8001 can be routed to an internal location on port 88. This is a good way of routing two different sets of incoming connections to two different broadwave PCs.
Let us know how you get on.
