Hi (please read whole question) Recently I have been trying to get an FTP server on PC to work outside of my network. In the many things I have tried I discovered my computer will not respond to ping requests. My PC can successfully ping other PC's inside & outside of the network. I have tried temporarily turning off firewalls of my PC, including my Anti-Virus and Windows Firewall. My modem would be blocking as its firewall, be default, is not switched on, and as I checked it still is that way. I don't know if I can ping myself locally but I know outside of networks it doesn't work please help me Cheers Blonde015 (as on http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-networking/why-wont-my-pc-respond-to-ping/88ba8041-f7f4-413e-9006-d6c6b4474e36) ______________________________________________________________________ UPDATE: Using a pinging app on my iPhone i can 100% ping myself within my network. Outside of my network I still cannot get any responses from pinging myself. (I find my outside IP through http://www.ipchicken.com and my local IP through cmd/ipconfig)

All firewall settings are allowing the ICMPv6-In. My father whom extensive knowledge in IT (Deployma level) says that maybe because the modem's firewall is turned (by default it is, I haven't turned it off) there is no port forwarding. Is this possibly why my PC will not respond to ping? I don't think so because I had a wiz through my modems settings (through internet browser) and is describes the modems firewall being off means all games and application can get through so whatever, I am guessing it is my PC. (update with original question post, and below) UPDATE: Using a pinging app on my iPhone i can 100% ping myself within my network. Outside of my network I still cannot get any responses from pinging myself. (I find my outside IP through http://www.ipchicken.com and my local IP through cmd/ipconfig) Blonde015 Windows Vista/Windows Live User