Hello,
I've used HFS for a number of years now with great success. However now I just cannot reach my HFS externally no matter what I do.
OS: Win 7 Pro 64-bit
Router/Modem: ARRIS Group, Inc. TG1682G
HFS Version: 2.3m
ISP: Comcast/Xfinity
AV: Avast
I've added all of my devices to an IP reservation list in the router so that I have a static IP on my PC running HFS. Using port 4550 in HFS, I've forwarded this port in the router using the Xfinity MyxFi link for port forwarding & ensured that it is going to the static IP I've assigned to my PC. I've disabled all of the Avast shields & the Windows firewall, but the connection continues to time out. The Self Test reports that "The test is successful. The server should be working fine." but I cannot reach it on any of my devices.
A lot of the time HFS cannot find my external IP (I use this as a sort of connection test when I first launch the program). It's almost as if Xfinity is not allowing my public IP address to communicate with any device nor browser. I am able to view HFS in Firefox when using localhost:4550/, but not with my public IP.
Any ideas? I'm at my wits' end.
~R.E.D.
ETA: I should also say that I've even tried using the default settings via the Debugging mode just to see if there was some setting that I modified, but the results were the same.