Question about possible firewall from my rouder

[()verl)ose]

I recently bought a new computer, and to get an internet connection to both the computers in our house i had to buy a rouder... obviously. But i've noticed that i'm restricted to some after i set up the rouder.

Now i only set up the rouder to connect to the net on both computers, they're not really networked together other then that. The rounder i have is a Star Tech Cable/DSL Router... pretty straight forward... rather basic little unit as far as i know.

The restrictions i'm talking about are when i try and send/recieve audio, video conversations, any kind of two way connection through say... MSN... also when i tried to host Counter Strike or Doom 3 servers, my friends said that even though they did a search for the server IP, nothing was listed...

I'm new to rouders so forgive my noobism, but i'd appreciate any suggestions you guys/girls might have as to how to correct my little "problem".

Thanks.

 

[team sleep1]

Um, well you need to access your router's configuration ..didn't your router come with instructions? In order to get to do all that stuff, you need to port-forward and open up all of those so you can actually use the router without being restricted.

 

[Dynamix]

Read manuals man