For 2 days now I’ve been slowly chatting with customer support about issues with port forwarding. They haven’t been very helpful and use terms I don’t always understand. My question is, when I run “netstat -a” in the command prompt I see multiple IPs and ports of my router, which one do I use? Is the router port even the port I’m supposed to be inputting into the “local port” when setting up the port forwarding? Or am I supposed to be inputting a different port number? Customer support has sent me several links to guides and none of them have solved my “Connection Timed Out (110)” error when selecting “Test Open” on my forwarded port.
I’ve been Googling these past 2 days while talking with support and at one point opened the port for like 2 minutes and then when I went to seed something, and I couldn’t connect to any seeders, went and tested the port forward again on the AirVPN site and it had stopped working. I’m very confused on what is going on, any advice is greatly appreciated!
You don’t (and should not) open a port on your router. Your VPN already has that port open and available from their server.
You also need something listening on that port. That ‘something’ should be connected to your VPN. You didn’t say anything about what you are using for that. Is it a torrent client? Something else? Is it running and set to that same port for its incoming (listening) port? If there is nothing running and actively listening and responding on the forwarded port you will not get any kind of response when testing.
I’m using Qbittorrent to connect. But i’m not even getting to that point yet of using the client. AirVPNs own test is failing when I click “test port” or use 3rd party sites. I tried making the local port number the same as the port number assigned, and then I disabled my firewall to test it and it now says “connection refused”. So, my firewall was the culprit of the failed connection. But I still can’t connect.
Very late to the party, but you need “something” (in this case, qBittorrent) running (listening) and configured on the particular forwarded port for the “test” to be successful. It’s very easy really, set up the forwarded port in the AirVPN console, set the same port in qBittorrent settings and make sure the connection is allowed through the Windows firewall. That’s it. No need to mess with your router or anything else.
Also in qBittorrent I suggest you enable Anonymous mode and bind the connection to the VPN adapter.