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Originally Posted by oj829
It seems pretty obvious now that the reason my new Glo won't sync down books is because I have security settings on my home WiFi router that prevent it. I see from my router packet traffic logs that it is dropping outbound packets from my Glo to a remote host on port 8443 (8447? Can't remember now.)
My Touch does not have this problem. I have only established the simplest of port-forwarding rules on my router, and then only to do - well, never mind  |
I don't understand why neither the touch nor the glo should need forwarding rules in a home-wifi-router. They are not accessed from outside your network, they are accessing the outside internet themselve!? Port-forwarding is used when accessing a device from outside a NAT-network. When the device is accessing the internet it just should get all the answers it needs. Kobo, for example, needs to set forwarding rules for it's servers, if they are on a NAT-network (which te probably aren't :-) ).
Maybe you set the internal firewall of your router to strict, stopping ALL internet traffic to some (or all) IP-adresses, unless they specifically are opened up again. In that case, it seems logical that a device on one IP-adress has more or less difficulty accessing the internet than an other device on an other IP-adress. Re-configurate the firewall in that case. To my opinion that has nothing to do with port-forwarding, more with port-closing...