blubbi, being a native of Germany you might be able to answer this but does telekom block udp traffic? (specifially in the range of port 9-9999)

Using their speedport router/NAT I've been unable to pick up a package sent to me via the internet using wireshark. Pretty frutrasting. Of course it's a rather mute point now, since the linksys will probably fix the issue without needing UDP at all (at least remotely).

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