Port Forwarding issues and limits in Archer C80
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Hi,
I've bought a new Tp Link Archer C80 for replacing and get an upgrade for my old but faithful Linksys E1000, and when trying to forward some ports i need to redirect, surprise! i have to configure ONE BY ONE, but even worse: there is a limit in the quantity of ports you can redirect. How in middle of 21st Century can this be?? My idea was supposed to change to a better device and i find this disappointing problem with my first time buying a device from the 'Tp-Link' brand.
Can be this solved soon with some software update???
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Hello, if you want to open some specific ports for the local devices, you will need to add them one by one on the C80. While there is UPnP on the C80, which will open the ports automatically for the applications, you may try to enable it and see if it will help.
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You can use port ranges (e.g. like 1024-1040) instead of individual ports and that would help to reduce the number of port forwarding entries.
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@Ivaylo it JUST the problem, this thing does not allow forwarding ports in ranges
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@Kevin_Z Not all apps are compatible with UPNP, for example, the main problem is that i need to use a FTP Server, which needs a high port range to forward for working in passive mode...
This is ONLY ONE of the problems i've found in the Archer C80, other problems found in these 3 weeks using this new router are:
-Device loses time & date when is disconnecting from power or when is a power failure
-Device is unable to obtain date and hour from internet from any NTP server (tested ntp.org ; time.windows.com ; time.google.com ) ALL give timeout error
What a mess my first experience with TP-LINK, Really i want my money back...
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When setting the internal port filed in NAT Forwarding leave it blank and see if that helps. BTW, try to upgrade the router FW if there's a newer version.
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Thanks @Ivaylo for your valued suggestions.
Sorry that the port forwarding settings on the C80 are slightly different from that on some other models, it doesn't allow to set a port range. This has been forwarded to the related department as a feature request, and this will be improved in the future firmware upgrade, but we currently cannot give you an ETA yet.
As for the device time, try to change the DNS server on the C80 to third-party's, e.g. like 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, reboot the C80 and confirm.
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Wow ... that was unexpected, I am sorry @GeorKhawam. I couldn't even imagine that this is not implemented in FW of that router model.
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@Kevin_Z It didn't work
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The default servers are:
time.nist.gov
time-nw.nist.gov
You can try some of the listed NTP servers:
https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi
or
https://gist.github.com/mutin-sa/eea1c396b1e610a2da1e5550d94b0453
even by their IP address to exclude possible DNS issues.
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@Ivaylo Thanks, but NOTHING works...
Does not work with domains, not even inserting the direct ip's of some NTP servers, neither a local NTP i've configured (rest of computers take the time and data correctly, but the C80 not)...
The error is the same, Failed getting time from NTP: (TIMEOUT)
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