OK, with that said. I have been looking over the "filters" function of the router. I have read, and heard from a Netgear tech, that putting the computers IP address in that "default" box basicaly allows all trafic to go into that specific IP address. As my last post indicates, it in fact does not. This brings me to another question. The private range of "internal" IP's are widely used. How does someone on the outside come into/through my router to my specific computer? You can't just ping 192.168.0.x over the internet..... I was thinking that this also had something to do with it.

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