i did as you said, it was a good guide and easy to do, but it only changed my NAT settings from STRICT to MODERATE.

my router is a d-link (which i now know is a very poor brand of routers) and when i came to the dmz settings it had "192.168.0." already in and unchangeable. i figured this was just different because the default gateway is 192.168.0 instead of 192.168.1, so i went ahead and used 192.168.0.50 as my dmz

the only reason i tell you that ^^ is that i think that may have something to do with my NAT settings not going to open.

thanks for the help, this really isn't my thing