Router Limited ports can be opened can i fix this

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  1. DopeFreak

    DopeFreak Regular member

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    i am under telus for internet and apparently i cant add any more ports to open its limited. have around 16 open and wont let me add anymore. I got ports open for xbox live netflix world of warcraft. I want to know if i can make it so i can open more ports cause this is not cool.
     
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    UPNP. most all modern games have this on by default, it opens the ports required when the program is initialized and closes those ports when the program is terminated.

    UPNP leaves a small security hole that can only be accessed by a program that's on your computer, in other words if you got a Trojen/Virus on the local machine it would open any ports it so pleases. no Trojan/Virus no security hole.
     

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