I notice there is a forwarding section of this board but I have never used the software before (another company set it up).
I have found a place to turn on UPnP which I can see worked as the game Watch Dogs Legion created its own forward.
However I have an issue with the Ubisoft Connect application, I have their game service and it requires you to have an internet connection to verify you have a license to run the game, if it loses internet connection it quits it with no warning at all.
I can use their app and download games fine, but it fails when I run the game. I know if I do not try and forward the ports on their support article that they will not help.
Their site says they use ports TCP: 443, 14000
I am currently trying to forward 14000 and then test to see if it is open by using a port checker website such as https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/ (would this show it open if it worked?)
I have tried a few different combinations of setting this up but I find it confusing and nothing I have tried has worked.
I also am not sure if as well as setting up the forward, do I need to open the firewall to allow the port also?
I have tried Chain=dstnat inInterface= lte protocol=tcp dstport=14000 action=dstnat toAddress=192.168.88.23 toPorts=14000
I have also tried instead of InInterface to use dstAddress but I was not sure what IP should go here? I tried both my router Ip of 88.1 and my public IP.
Not sure what the firewall setting would be.
Please can you help, I cannot play the games and have nothing else to do (I have a heart issue and cannot leave because of Covid).
It sounds wrong, forwarded ports can’t be hard requirement, because half of home users don’t have public address, so they can’t forward any ports at all. They can try, but it won’t work. Another problem is with multiple devices, where one public address means that port with given number can be forwarded only to one device. And almost nobody has more than one public address at home.
You wrote about public IP, so you’re sure you have it, right?
If you do, it should work, your dstnat rule looks ok, assuming that “lte” is typo (should be “lte1”). You can also use interface list, since it’s already defined:
I guess it should not be the case with everyone but reading their support article they wont help unless you forward the ports or do that with them and show it has been done.
I tried with the config you both posted but nothing comes out on the packet counter when I try and test the port from a port testing site.
I did remove my attempts before posting my config.
Do I need to allow the ports through the RouterOS firewall as well (my PC one is off right now)?
I google my IP address and it says it starts with 90 and ends with 109, is that valid?
Nothing I see in your config is preventing success, and thus why Sob suspects its something to do with your ISP part of the connection.
Is there anyother interface besides lte1 which should be added to the WAN interface member list?? what about lte apn??
No, dstnat rule is enough, default firewall allows forwarded ports.
If it starts with 90, then it’s public address. But if you see it on some “what is my ip address?” page, it means nothing. Is the same address also directly on your router (IP->Addresses)? If it is, then you really have it and port forwarding should work. There are some ISPs who block incomming connections, but usually it doesn’t happen. If not, then you still have chance, it could be NAT 1:1, but if that would be the case, ISP would probably tell you about it.
If it starts with 10, it’s private address (or better, non-public, there’s nothing private about it in a sense that you’d need to mask it), so it’s not reachable from internet and not usable for port forwarding.
I can browse through Ubisoft’s application, download the game fast and start it.
If I couldn’t authenticate correctly that I have the subscription to play I couldn’t start the game.
So any idea why it would drop/lose connection after 10 mins or so?
I can get other online games to work normally such as plants vs zombies and VR Chat.
If it really requires incoming connections, then it wouldn’t work. But it’s very hard to believe that it could be the case, because half of the world doesn’t have public address, you’re far from being the only unlucky one who doesn’t have it. And it’s like this for many years already, so everything is made in a way that it can work without it. Especially games, where the target audience is users without technical skills. Public addresses and incoming connections are still good and things can work better with them, but shouldn’t completely break without them.
Unfortunately, diagnosing problems like this is very difficult. There’s no standard protocol used by everything, each game can do something different.
I managed to get the client to stay connected by getting ExpressVPN. With that connected I can finally play the games, ideally I would not be paying out for it though, I assume there is just something wrong with the config stopping it from keeping a connection.
It is strange how it has it initially but then it fails.