What happened? Working for 8 mo., last week's gone to shi...

[BlackholeForever]

Getting the "Please connect to the Internet, and double click here [error 3]" error. Cannot dial out, probably cannot receive calls.

If I throw my box directly behind the cable modem, it resets and seems to stay stable.

If I put it back behind my router (3Com OfficeConnect Wireless 11g Cable/DSL model #3CRWE554G72TU), I'm back to [error 3].

Thing is, I haven't touched this setup in 8 months and working fine, and now I've been out almost all of last week (and for the last 3 days straight). I've NEVER even had ports open in the router in all that time. And, if I reboot the computer...I can place one call and then after that it's back to [error 3].

I'm stumped as to what's going on...seeing something mentioned in other threads about an upgrade last week (I'm midwest - 815)? Just wondering if anyone has any ideas - thanks...

p.s. - Also wondering what ports are required, if this is the case. I've now opened 5060-5070, but it's not helping (and the 3Com doesn't spec protocol on a custom service port setup in this case - I guess it allows any).

[checkers]

Seems to me if all was ok b4, something changed either on your end or theres..........However here is the info for ports, hope it helps.

magicJack uses ports UDP 5061, TCP 80 and TCP 443

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[BlackholeForever]

An update on this. I was in the middle of a move to a new place, so I didn't have much time to try and work this one out. I brought my SunRocket box-Gizmo Project-GrandCentral solution that I was using at another place and used that for the remainder of the month.

Now, I'm in the new place.

Dumped the 3Com router in favor of a ZyXEL router I had lying around. Hooked up my SunRocket box-Gizmo Project-GrandCentral solution (which gets all of the SIP port forwarding) and started using that again straightaway.

A couple of days ago, I put my WinXP box back on the network, and hooked up the MagicJack. Guess what - it's working fine again, now. And I repeat, SunRocket solution gets the port forwarding (5060-5061,64064), not the MagicJack -- both are working.

Go figure...