I have a crappy D-Link WBR-1310 wireless router. It barely makes the grade, but on of the stupidest problems with it is I cannot get onto the Toronto Public Library website by default. Of all the websites in the world it keeps me from accessing a pure and clean website like that. http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/ I called up my ISP and the told me to the Router setup, go to the Advanced tab and in the Port Forwarding section input my computer IP address and port. It worked for a while, but I've recently reinstalled Windows and I now have a different IP address, and therefore can't get on said website. I've gone back to the router settings and input the new IP address, but I have no idea how to find the proper port number. I don't want to change my IP address, and I'd like to be able to determine the port number myself without having to call up the ISP. Any ideas?

I have no idea what you ISP was telling you but normally you only need to forward ports when you are running a web server. The normal port for HTTP is port 80 and that is often left open by routers because it is so commonly used. Even so, you browser should open the port when it loads. There should be bo need to forward ports because the router keeps track of which computers made HTTP request. Either there is something you are not telling us or there is something terribly wrong with your router. Messing about with port numbers every time your IP address changes in order to access a web site doesn't make sense. I can get onto that web site and have done absolutley nothing to my router and I am going through two of them. I would suspect a DNS problem that your ISP is not aware of. Stuart

Trust me, it makes no sense to me or my ISP. I spent over an hour on the phone with tech support trying to figure it out before we came to the port solution. I never had this problem before. If I plug my DSL modem directly into the computer and bypass the router all together I can get onto the site fine. My old router never had this problem either, but it died and I got this piece of junk that wants to block one of the safest sites on the internet. I tried port 80 but that didn't work. I'm not at home right now, but I remember the ports I had opened before were something like 227 and 290, but they don't seem to want to work with this new IP address.

I would try setting a static local ip and using the DNS servers from OpenDNS (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220). IF you dont know how to set your static ip, read http://portforward.com/networking/s... let us know if that works.