It sets up the nas fine as dhcp, ethernet straight from the gateway to nas, I don't know if setting a static ip in the dhcp range will work or is necessary, but for now it's assigning me the same internal ip for my nas and I can connect, but this program needs ports opened.

so I go to internet.shaw and try to port forward the app, says the ports are forwareded, but it says port closed in the nas, is there anything I should do? I know ipv6 is a big thing with shaw, I tried turning it off in my nas it didn't work, I even dmz'd to the nas to see if it would help and the app wasn't working.

Since I can only port forward from a list of dhcp devices I don't have many options as far as setting static ip or ddns on shaws end, but I still need to port forward the nas, I figured it out for my macbook by disabling ipv6 but the nas doesn't seem that simple.