D-Link DIR-651 Port Forwarding Help

Hi all,
It seam that i cant open ports (or doing something wrong ) on this router.

Ive googled for the guide but with no luck, portforward.com doesn't have this model nor the correct firmware.

The only sites that i have found, that might help, are in Russian so they are useless to me. Another thing is when i google the router it show up under a different model, DIR825 (judging by the picture) and the model number (DIR651) that is printed on the front panel gives me entirely different routers (again judging by the pictures).

Anyway im sure the important thing is to know the firmware version, 2.5.0 is the one on my router.

Ive opened ports before, so im not new to this, but this time i just cant figure it out.

Help will be much appreciated

P.S
How can i be sure that the ports are open and the problem is in the software that is trying to use them?

 

And herein lies the surprise - there is no such thing as a D-Link DIR-615.
There are dozens of these pathetic excuses for routers - they look different, have different hardware and therefore different firmwares. This is why when you look at firmware that is supposedly for your router it looks different than yours but, at the same time you find routers physically looking similar to yours but with different names.

There were so many revisions of this router that nobody can follow them - this supposedly one router is based on SoCs from Marvell, Ubicom, Atheros, Ralink, Realtek or Broadcom. It has either 2MB, 4MB or 8MB of flash memory and either 8MB or 16MB or 32MB of RAM and it has a USB port... or not.

As far as I can count there are 28 revisions of this router - some of them being virtually identical, so this limits the number of different hardware versions to measly 16!

To cut the long story short, please provide some screen-shots of relevant settings in your firmware, otherwise we will never figure out what are we looking for (and don't buy D-Links again).

 

Unfortunately i didn't bought this one, i got it from my ISP and waiting for the next paycheck to upgrade.
About the firmware, as i posted above, on this link the photo shows the exact same firmware that my router uses, same interface and everything (mine is a bit older though 2.5.0 and on the site is 2.5.31).

If you guys specify what else you need to know ill post the relevant info.

 

The thing is, while I do speak Russian (or should I say I used to speak Russian 15 years ago) this screenshot is not very helpful.
Sub-menus are not visible and without that it's guesswork based on guesswork. While I can be pretty sure some menus are not relevant in any way, others might be. What would one see having clicked on "network" for example?

Port forwarding is usually somewhere around NAT, security/firewall settings because there are sort of doing the same way. Any way you could provide some screenshots of those settings?

 

Sure!

Well, i think i found the right menu but now it seams that although i switched to a static IP, set up the ports but i still cant establish a connection through those ports (not shown i the image).

Can i safely check if the specific ports are open (online or free software)?

P.S
Im note sure what to set up in the Template menu.

 

Virtual Servers are set up in the same way classic port forwarding is and do the same thing for all intents and purposes (although internally they don't). I did notice that D-Links used to have both functions available and sometimes if you set up one of those, it would not work but the other one would - which should not be the case. But that is one more quality touch from D-Link.

You could use a web-based service that checks if any given port is open, but you might need to disable any firewall you have for that, otherwise you will not know if the port is actually closed of if the firewall did its job.
You may want to set your computer in DMZ for testing, then check if it works with a website like this.

If it does not work when the computer is in DMZ, than it's firewall on your computer blocking it. If it does work in DMZ but not when the computer is behind router firewall, with virtual server set up, than the rule (or router firmware) is an issue.

Is UPnP out of the question here? It might not be particularly secure but it's damn convenient.