Stream Works, then Doesn't Work

[androidodnetnin]

I have been trying to stream a video with my family back home with VLC player. I am using VLC 2.1.3 now, but experienced these problems when using VLC 2.1.2 as well.

• - I have the Firewall Enabled on my Arris router.
  
  - I have the Port Trigger Configuration on my Arris router set up as:
  • Description: VLC Streaming
    Outbound Port: 1234-1234
    Type: Both
    Inbound Port: 1234-1234
  - I have the Virtual Servers Configuration on my Arris router set up as:
  • Description: VLC Streaming
    Inbound Port: 1234-1234
    Type: Both
    Private IP Address: 192.168.0.2
    Local Port: 1234-1234

- I have Norton 360 installed on my machine, with the following Firewall Setting changes:

• Program Rules (for VLC): Allow, Direction: In/Out, Computer: Any, Communications: Any, Protocol: All
  Traffic Rules: Allow, Direction: In/Out, Computer: Specific, Communications: Specific, Protocol: TCP and UDP

The specific computers (as noted above) are addresses that belong to my family's IP address and my work IP addresses.

My family and I have successfully streamed 35% of the time, with no changes to any of the settings listed above. Of the 35%, most of the time I have had to restart my router and they their computer. Otherwise, it doesn't work. In addition, there was a point last night when trying to stream and my family restarted their computer midway through the stream.

We both watch what is being streamed on other computers (they at their house, me in the living room while my computer in the computer room streams). When they returned from the boot-up, they were unable to reconnect, while my computer was able to continue the stream in the living room while on the same network.

I've tried the same thing minutes ago with my work computer, and was able to stream the video with ease. I closed and restarted VLC on my work computer to try once more, and was unable to.

The following is the error that is received every time:

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main debug: processing request item: http://##.###.###.##:1234, node: Playlist, skip: 0 main debug: resyncing on http://##.###.###.##:1234 main debug: http://##.###.###.##:1234 is at 0 main debug: starting playback of the new playlist item main debug: resyncing on http://##.###.###.##:1234 main debug: http://##.###.###.##:1234 is at 0 main debug: creating new input thread main debug: Creating an input for 'http://##.###.###.##:1234' main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB, in path 'C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp' main debug: `http://##.###.###.##:1234' gives access `http' demux `' path `##.###.###.##:1234' main debug: creating demux: access='http' demux='' location='##.###.###.##:1234' file='\\##.###.###.##:1234' main debug: looking for access_demux module matching "http": 12 candidates main debug: no access_demux modules matched main debug: creating access 'http' location='##.###.###.##:1234', path='\\##.###.###.##:1234' main debug: looking for access module matching "http": 20 candidates access_http debug: querying proxy for http://##.###.###.##:1234 access_http debug: no proxy access_http debug: http: server='##.###.###.##' port=1234 file='' main debug: net: connecting to ##.###.###.## port 1234 qt4 debug: IM: Setting an input main warning: connection timed out access_http error: cannot connect to ##.###.###.##:1234 main debug: net: connecting to ##.###.###.## port 1234 main warning: connection timed out access_mms error: cannot connect to ##.###.###.##:1234 main debug: no access modules matched main error: open of `http://##.###.###.##:1234' failed main debug: dead input main debug: changing item without a request (current 0/1) main debug: nothing to play qt4 debug: IM: Deleting the input

If anyone can help me create better consistency with my stream, I'd be appreciative.