Verizon Fivespot firewall

Question

I have a Verizon Fivespot Wi-Fi router and am having issues connecting to the computer that uses it to get on the internet. I am able to connect to the Fivespot admin pages remotely and I am able to connect to the internet from the computer behind the Fivespot.

There are two sections pertinent to this issue, Port Filtering And, Port Forwarding I've tried each individually and both together but cannot access anything through the router except for the admin page.

I am trying to connect through SSH to an Ubuntu 10.04 box over wifi.

I have called Verizon Tech Support but they were unhelpful, the person essentially read what it says on each screen without any elaboration.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Edit - I've discovered that the port filtering is for outgoing traffic, I have disabled any filtering on the outgoing traffic. So I think I'm halfway there.

Answer 1

I have worked out a solution but unfortunately, not the cause.

I have setup the Port Forwarding so that *:8080 points to port 80 on the server.

This worked, while setting up *:22 to port 20 on the server did not.

I have since discovered that port forwarding any port to the same port on the server does NOT work, but forwarding any port to any different port number will work (assuming the port number is not reserved)