Warframe + Port Forwarding Does Not Work

[Rydian]

I got annoyed with the lack of any response at all too (especially since this is the official bug report section and this is a long-standing problem) so I opened a support ticket so that I could confirm that at least one member of DE would have seen even a description the issue (which is why I stopped bumping this thread).

 

They asked for logs and various info and told me to do the basic network troubleshooting, and I've sent them all the screenshots and info I think are relevant.  Here's hoping the support ticket sheds some light on what's going on here.

[NoSpax]

Some routers have faulty software, which would put everything behind a NAT, even when a port-forwarding is set.

Your Internet may even be behind a NAT on the ISP-side (without you knowing), so in that case there is no way to have that changed.

If you set your PC on the router into the DMZ (aka Exposed Host ) and it STILL won't work, you have ran into a serious issue here.

 

You could try a different router or - if available - bridge mode.

If this won't fix your problem, you could try to firmware update this s**t.

 

If this still won't help, hook up your ISP support and tell them your problem.

If they won't help you, just get another device or scrap that ISP.

 

 

To the OP: Why in the World did you make a port-forwarding for port 80 and 443, these are only outbound and don't need ports inbound.

Delete them.

 

I assume, you have all 3 of these options checked in your device?

http://screenshots.portforward.com/routers/ZyXEL/P-660HW-D1_v2/UPnP.htm

Edited May 4, 2014 by Sypheal

[Rydian]

1 - I am the OP.  There's a lot of self-responses here partially to be more interesting bumps, since this thread went by for weeks with no response from DE.  Also as time passed I gathered a little more info and would post it anyways.

 

2 - My ISP seemed to use CGNAT or some derivative to get around the IPv4 allocation issue (I was initially alerted to this by some outdated forum software that still believes an IP address equals a person), so that may have been the cause of the NAT issue (and my inability to fix it)... though Warframe should still have no issue with that unless they were trying to keep a WAN IP address<->player relations list cached or something (as even with the setup my ISP was using, it was per session so for any given internet connectivity session one user still has one WAN IP).

 

3 - When I set my PC as the DMZ for the LAN, I had the same experience as before.  As in, everything except Warframe worked.

 

4 - Getting a second router and putting the first into bridge mode would be a workaround, and much better than telling random players to join a hamachi network or something like that... but if I have to do that for just one game/server/software (when all the others work), I'm inclined to believe there's a problem with the software (thus this "help me" thread turning into a bug report thread).

 

5 - The router was an ISP issued ADSL gateway.  The latest firmware update was ~2007.

 

6 - Warframe's support linked me to a guide that said to forward 80 and 443 in addition to the ones listed in the client, so I did those just in case (Apache was set to a different port as shown in one screenshot anyways).

 

7 - Warframe's support had me uncheck those as a test as well.  No change.

 

8 - I got a(nother) response from DE today in the ticket system, telling me that I should contact my ISP and have them forward the ports on their end for me.

 

 

 

However, I moved today (no srsly, the OP is 5 days short of being a month old) and the net setup (which is a new ISP and a new gateway) seems to work fine with Warframe... even when Warframe's uPnP setting is disabled, which really leads me to believe that Warframe's servers are doing something unique behind the scenes as far as player matching goes which does not agree with with setups.

[Gotchar]

-.O

[ShogunOda]

I have the same issue with a UPnP non-compatible router. If you need to do a trade or something, I find switching to your phone's hotspot connection to work. There is no error, except that this uses data. Would like a long term fix though.

[(PSN)Zerdamus]

i think i have a similar problem like this. the game asks me to portforward 4950 and 4955, i do so but nothing happens. contacted my network service provider and they couldnt help me. 
conclusion: cant play multiplayer with anyone 

[UselessPlayerNumberOne]

Still have same problem even after port forwarding. Played 2 week without any issue, and now can't help with it. Nice work DE

[UselessPlayerNumberOne]

I changed network, network analysing says that all systems normal, no issue, but I still can't see players and chats are blank