Yes, I've used tethering my laptop to my phone to test. Yes, i've tried putting each of them into the DMZ of my router and no luck there either. I am not aware of a way to do them both at the same time though, and that might be helpful because I'm thinking with one inside and one outside, they're probabaly having trouble communicating. It's dissapointing that there doesn't appear to be any sort of log file on the host or vcenter that mentioned the timed-out...at least none that I can find...however, i've primarily worked with windows. I've been browsing the files with WinSCP and haven't found any logs. Does anyone know which log would address this issue?
Thanks for the tips.