Outbound Remote Desktop Connection on Linksys Router

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Hi, I am having a lot of trouble setting up a remote desktop connection to my
workplace through my Linksys BEFSX41 router at home. I know it is the router
causing the problem because when I physically bypass it, I can connect to my
workplace no problem with Remote Desktop Connection. Linksys doesn't seem to
be able to help me, they keep talking about VPN tunnels. I don't think that
this software uses VPN. I have tried disabling the built-in firewall, port
triggering port 3389 (don't really know what that does), creating a static ip
on my end and port forwarding port 3389 to that computer, and even a DMZ
doesn't work! Ultimately I would like to be able to use Remote Desktop
Connection on all my computers at home to connect to work, so I think that
port forwarding is not the right choice anyways. I don't see why the
client-side router should have to do port forwarding, I thought only the
host-side router should be port forwarding. Any help would be extremely
appreciated as this is becoming very frustrating.
 
Hi, I am having a lot of trouble setting up a remote desktop connection to my workplace
through my Linksys BEFSX41 router at home. I know it is the router causing the problem
because when I physically bypass it, I can connect to my workplace no problem with
Remote Desktop Connection. Linksys doesn't seem to be able to help me, they keep
talking about VPN tunnels. I don't think that this software uses VPN. I have tried
disabling the built-in firewall, port triggering port 3389 (don't really know what that
does), creating a static ip on my end and port forwarding port 3389 to that computer,
and even a DMZ doesn't work! Ultimately I would like to be able to use Remote Desktop
Connection on all my computers at home to connect to work, so I think that port
forwarding is not the right choice anyways. I don't see why the client-side router
should have to do port forwarding, I thought only the host-side router should be port
forwarding. Any help would be extremely appreciated as this is becoming very
frustrating.
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Have you tried a power off/on of your home router? Are you running the latest firmware in
the router? Have you tried reflashing the router firmware?
 
Rebooting the router did nothing, but installing the lastest firmware solved
my problem. Thanks a lot!

Justin
 
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