I’m currently with Proximus (Internet Maxi) and port forwarding doesn’t work. I’m studying Informatica at the Ugent and this is impeding my studies. All my other peers at uni use different’s ISP’s hand have 0 issues. It seems like some of their ‘bbox3’ routers have issues with port forwarding. At this point I’m willing to switch ISP’s over this.

Does anyone know a good ISP for Lievegem, Oost-Vlaanderen? The internet speed of Proximus is fine so as long as it’s not worse I’m happy.

Here’s some of the things I’ve tried:

* I had another student that runs a webserver from home check my configuration and he saw nothing wrong.
* I was on the phone for 2 hours with Proximus and the lady said she couldn’t help me. (She didn’t know what port forwarding was)
* I asked on the Proximus forum and they told me they don’t provide support for port forwarding: [https://nl.forum.proximus.be/internet-10/port-forwarding-werkt-niet-met-b-box3-56353?postid=705318#post705318](https://nl.forum.proximus.be/internet-10/port-forwarding-werkt-niet-met-b-box3-56353?postid=705318#post705318)

8 comments

  1. We have Proximus and our port forwarding works just fine. The only issue I hade was figuring out which obscure firewall setting was causing the problems on my pc.

  2. The easiest is to buy a router and put the shit bbox in bridge mode: https://www.edpnet.be/en/support/installation-and-usage/internet/manage-proximus-hardware/how-do-i-configure-my-b-box-3-in-bridge-mode.html

    Then anything you might want to configure will be on the router you own and fully control. A bit pricey to get a good router, but you’ll keep it for years across several ISPs, and will even be able to use it as an access point further down the line – especially so if you flash it with openwrt, tomato, ddwrt etc.

  4. I’m with telenet and have port forwarding via their website. Maybe instead of port-forwarding try setting your server in the DMZ?

  6. Telenet port forwarding works just fine (but there is a limit to how many ports you add), and if you get a modem only or the CV8560E modem/router you can use your own router/firewall and handle port forwarding yourself.

  7. Port forwarding works fine for me, at least it does for that Minecraft server. With both Proximus and Mobile Vikings, but as they use the same modem, it’s no surprise.

  8. Just run your own firewall and only use the modem part of the BBox (bridge). Any old router that you can flash with better firmware will do. Or go nuts with old hardware and pfSense or whatever.

    Managing that setup is a nice skill to have considering you’re “in IT”.

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