Why does this happen to Linksys while trying to port forward?

This might give you the page to change to English menus (I assume you want that).
http://192.168.1.1/language.htm

It says I have to upload a language pack…Where would I get that?

And also, I have tried this on Google Chrome and Internet Explorer

If you PM me the IP reported here I will take a look. Don’t post it publicly since you never bothered to lock down your router. I promise to not screw you.

Maybe you already know this, but you can’t just get a static IP address by configuring your router to point to an arbitrary address of your choosing; you need to get a static IP address from your Internet service provider and then configure the router to point to that. Unfortunately, most providers charge more for a static IP address.

After looking around the Cisco forums for a bit (Linksys is part of Cisco) it looks like you can install the language pack from the setup CD that came with the router, assuming you still have it. Alternately, you can go to the Cisco web site, choose the desired language (for the website) and then download the latest firmware, which allegedly should be set for the language of your choice.

Or, if it’s a WRT54G with version number <5, you could just install OpenWRT and have whatever language you want.

@koanhead :: Most broadband providers use a mostly static IP. I have had the same one with Comcast for the last 8 months. So going from ***.***.***.*** through port 25565 to what addy they get through DHCP should work. Until they restart and get a LAN IP that is different from DHCP.

And I should just add that a minecraft server is going to suck unless you have great upload and lots of RAM. It runs like shit on my VPS.

you can’t just get a static IP address by configuring your router to point to an arbitrary address of your choosing

That may refer to the private IP address and the need for the Minecraft server to always have the same 192.168.1.XXX address.