portforwarding

[MrGood]

 
can anyone assist me.
 i have port forwarding successfully a number of times and in the past, on this computer and others. i lost the connection and have tried any number of times lately and now it wont work. i have used portforward.com to check to see if the port is open but it is only open on udp not on tcp and therefore i cant host
i have tried all sorts of things to make it work but cant get it to go.
any ideas would be welcome, and yes i have followed instructions on how to do it and do the same as i have done in the past

mrgood

[Gohar]

My usual issue, is that my IP address  for my laptop changes, then I have to make sure I update the router's portforward instructions accordingly.

[MrGood]

my ip address is static so that is not a problem.
why is my port is open on udp and not tcp?

[MrGood]

i have now fixed the problem and can now host again,

thanks