[done]Trying to set up port forwarding so i dont have to deal with salty players

[Winchester]

I get the ports are closed message on my new laptop but am still able to host funny enough

[mousEtopher]

i have hosted before...does port forwarding make hosting easier or if i hosted that means my ports are forwarded?

hosting either works or it doesn't, either via port forwarding/upnp/dmz, in your case the rule was already in there so that'd be my guess.