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Hi i have been trying to open several ports on my linksys WRT160N router. First off I created a static IP of 192.168.1.185 and opened up several ports under that IP address. However I checked after and It hasnt helped anything. The other thing is when I looked on the status page of the router it listed the IP address as 192.168.2.10. Sorry if I havent provided alot of info as I wasnt really sure what to include. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Normally, with basic home routers, only one Class C subnet is used. There is usually no reason for two. Linksys usually defaults to 192.168.1.1
What device did you give 192.168.1.185 and what is listening on the ports you opened?
I don't know where 192.168.2.10 came from.

Well I gave my computer the 192.168.1.185 as a static ip adress. But i think I must be doing something wrong. I was trying to open the ports so I could host games in warcraft 3 which requires ports 4000 and 6112-6119.

It's ok that your PC has a static IP address. I use all static IPs on my network. The thing is, it has to be on the same subnet as your router. I'm sure it is because you aren't complaining about lack of internet.
I have good networking knowledge but I know nothing about games. Does warcraft 3 require one of the machines to act as a server? Doesn't the installation open the ports that are needed?

No it doesnt require anything special, just the ports open. but the strange thing is that I have opened all the ports but I tried pinging them online and it doesnt indicate there open. It gets even weirder because the site I used couldnt even ping my computer. But yah I have my computer as the main, 2 laptops, an xbox, a wii, and several ds's that all use the wireless routers connection(although very seldom at the same time). But the router sais its gateway is 192.168.2.1 which goes with ip its giving, but if i open cmd and do ipconfig/all it lists everything except my dns as different. But as far as I know it wont let me open any ports and I have know idea why.

Ping doesn't show what ports are opened, a port scan does.
Go to a machine that doesn't have a static IP address and run ipconfig /all
Post the results here.I don't see how you can give a machine a static IP address on a subnet that is different than the router without a routing table.

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