well I just tried that but with a 2wire it makes you choose which computer to forward the ports on and so i tried mine first, and his continuum client still showed the server in red, then i forwarded it for his computer, with the same results I think the problem has to do with my server.ini file, maybe I'm not choosing the right ip or perhaps when I add the zone on his computer I'm doing it incorrectly Here's a recap of what I've done: I started setting the ip to local host and 127.0.0.1 or w/e and it connects to the billing server and then I can connect then I tried to connect from his which doesn't work obviously so then I set the [billing]IP to my router's IP like suggested in a guide I read and also the [directory]IP to my routers ip, which is default 192.168.1.100 everytime if I change it to my router's ip or local ip or even my own computer's private ip, I can connect on the host computer but my brother can never find the server. If we use 'add custom' on the client it always remains red and never responds any help is appreciated, thanks edit: any links to a complete step by step guide would be appreciated, as the one I used was ages old