I searched the internet for a solution, however no-one seem to have this particular problem trying to port forward on a HG8247W5 Huawei router. This is how I tried to setup the port mapping: enter image description here
As you can see at "Internal Host" I set the local iPv4 that is returned in cmd from ipconfig I added, 2 ports, oe UDP, orne TCP set with 80(I left blank the "External source port number")
At "External Source IP Address" I put the public iPv4 of the router that google told me when I searched "what is my ip".
The problem is that "WAN name" is a HTML <select> drop-down without any <option>, the list of options is blank. If I try to click Apply, it says "Create a WAN Port first".
Now if I switch to the WAN tab on the top menu, an empty table with these headers appear:
Connection Name VLAN/Priority Protocol Type
- - -
Even if the table is empty I don't have any "+" button like on the port mapping configuration menu. It doesn't give me the option to add an entry to this table.
On the "Status" tab on the menu, at the "WAN Info" option, I have these 2 entries: enter image description here
From the tutorials I've seen, I think the "VoIP" entry is the one that needs to be referenced in the port mapping menu. However, as you can see, in the image above, it says "Connecting", not "Connected". I tried to reset the router, I tried to restart it, it says "Connecting".
I noticed that the status tab has a "VoIP Info" option. You can take a look at it here(I guess it is important) enter image description here
Now, as far as I understand, this happens because my internet provider(Orange - European Company, Americans probable don't know about it) decided not to allow users to create a WAN Port without a static global IP, which is a paid service. I don't know if this is true, however if it is true seems unfair.