CRAHAK I appreciate your feed back. However all the solutions in your reply have been implemented before hand. Port forwarding was one of the first things I did when setting up my server. Implying that port forwarding is basic networking is true, if you have a background in networking. But for the average computer user this might be challenging. I have no problem port forwarding my Dlink router but it has more settings to work with. I removed the Dlink because my IAD would then need to be reconfigued by my ISP. The internet feed comes in via cable modem. From the cable modem into the IAD. On the IAD there are three ports. WAN, LAN and PHONE. The WAN from the cable modem is plugged into the WAN on the IAD. The LAN on the IAD was plugged into my Dlink WAN. My phone is plugged into the PHONE port on the IAD. Everything worked great. When I set up my ftp I was unable to connect to it via WAN. But had no problen connecting inside my LAN. So when I started troubleshooting this issue I removed the Dlink. So Cable modem to IAD, IAD to network card, and phone to phone. Even with port forwarding I still can't access my ftp via WAN. This is why I asked my original questions hoping that maybe somebody could help me trouble shoot this issue. My ISP claims not to know how to resolve this matter. I do appreciate the feed back from other members. It gives me a perspective from somebody else which I think can help sometimes. Perhap's there is confusion about the IAD. The IAD is what they call a gateway/router. It is used for my internet phone. It does have an option in setup to port forward, however I'm not sure if the port forwarding really works. The reason I posted all those screen shots was beacuse I thought maybe it might be something else wrong in my set up. Most routers have DMZ option this one does not. Anyway's thanks for your insight. If you could take the time and explain how to remove the screen shots from this thread I would thank you in advance....