Port Forwarding Help, Please

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Well, to start things off I know nothing about port forwarding, i've tried many times in the passed 5 years and never once succeeded, it makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. Anyways,

I want to port forward for Call of Duty : Black Ops 2, because my NAT type is "Strict" and I would like it to be "Open". I've tried this with many different tutorials but I can't find any for my specific router anywhere, I did however manage to get a static IP by using the portforward.com program, making my new IP "192.168.0.50" (confirmed it worked in Command Prompt). I don't even know which ports are right to be used for this game, here are some screenshots of my router port forward page etc (I also reset all settings back to default to avoid any mess-ups by me), I would really appreciate the help, thank you all in advance!

Port forward page - https://gyazo.com/f177a5d4a4ba726c19f788b2bc81f517
Static IP - https://gyazo.com/5f0b28b9a75fd83283fded32f8f81315
Small tutorial which may be helpful - https://gyazo.com/76a77f530f35e30d6a1eb26260d5e748
 
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BuddhaSkoota


Port forwarding or hosting a server is only possible when your server can be reached via the public IP assigned to your router. Since it appears your router is instead being assigned a private IP, your server will not be reachable by outside clients.

Unfortunately the only advice is to contact your ISP to see if they can help.
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BuddhaSkoota

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Please state the make and model of your modem, and any other device that may be situated between the modem and the DLink.

Check to be sure the router's WAN IP address (under Status > Device Info) matches the address found when you visit yougetsignal.com (or Google "what is my IP").

While your router is not listed on portforward.com, the proper page configuration (with the proper ports shown) should be identical to this one: DLink DIR-826L

 
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As my modem is located outside on a building, I could not actually check to see the model (I have wireless internet, which may affect something?) Anyways, on the outlet thing for the modem it did have this information,

Motorola
Model - PSA15A-295(MOT)

And as for my WAN IP address, it is nowhere to be found on the Device info page (I even checked using CTRL+F)
 
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Wireless Internet providers usually assign customers a private IP address via carrier-grade NAT (CGNAT). If this is the case with your service, it may be difficult or impossible to port forward without help from your ISP. They may be able to resolve this by assigning a public IP address, but there may be nothing they can do to resolve your issue.

When you state the WAN IP is nowhere to be found, are you stating that there is no matching address to the one found on yougetsignal.com on your router? If so, that is another strong indication that CGNAT is involved unfortunately.
 
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Yeah, when I go on to the page you said, none of the IP's listed are matched to the one found on yougetsignal.com, whatsmyip.org, etc
 
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Port forwarding or hosting a server is only possible when your server can be reached via the public IP assigned to your router. Since it appears your router is instead being assigned a private IP, your server will not be reachable by outside clients.

Unfortunately the only advice is to contact your ISP to see if they can help.
 
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Okay, thank you so much for the provided help! now I'm not just stuck wondering what to do :)
 
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