help. i can long on locally using remote desktop to access my server behind the router. but i cant do it from the net. i opened the port that needed to be open with the correct protocol. what else could be happening? im not dumb im just to lazy to google it!

Let's start with - what port/protocol did you "open"? Can you describe the steps you took to open it? Preemptive information here: You need to do more than unfirewall a port (3389, in this case) to allow access to a service running behind a soho router. For that, you would also need to forward the correct port. Have you done that?

by opening what i really meant was i forwarded the port. and i allowed both udp and tcp protocols. im not dumb im just to lazy to google it!

>>Let's start with - what port/protocol did you "open"? Can you describe the steps you took to open it? Since whatever you did isn't working, please tell us what you did. Otherwise, how can we tell you what to do differently?