Port fowarding

[BENNY97]

Hi gary ,i'm just changed my broadband router and i 've been tweaking the settings , i noticed that it has a portforwarding option for apps and online games ,i was wondering if could use this for betting assistant ,if i can ,what path would i use for portforwarding.

[GaryRussell]

Port forwarding is to direct incoming connections to a specific computer on your network. For example you may want to access your home PC from work and there are other PCs/devices connected to your home network. In this case the router would reject the incoming connection because it does not know which device to route the connection to. The solution would be to set up port forwarding to route incoming connections to port 3389 to the internal IP address of your PC.

The only way in which Betting Assistant accepts incoming connections is if you are using the COM interface and want to access it remotely. In theory you can access the COM interface remotely by entering the IP address of the remote computer into Betting Assistant and setting up port forwarding to route incoming connections to port 8000 to the internal IP address of your PC. As far as I know nobody does this.

When Betting Assistant communicates with Betfair's API it is making an outgoing connection. Port forwarding is not useful for this so the short answer is no!

[BENNY97]

thanks for the info, saved me wasting my time