Opening Ports for XBOX360 Gears of War on the 3com 3C855 Firewall
Open a web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. Enter the internal IP address of your router in the address bar of your browser.
If you do not know your routers internal IP address please read our How To Find Your Routers IP Address guide.
In the picture above the address bar has http://www.google.com in it. Just replace all of that with the internal IP address of your router.
By default the IP address should be set to 192.168.1.1.
You should see a box prompting you for your password. Enter your password now. By default your password is admin. Click the Log in button to log in to your router.
Please visit our Default Router Passwords page if the username and password shown above do not work for you.
Click the Firewall link near the left side of the page.
Click the PCs Privileges link near the top of the page.
Start-->RouterGen
Put a dot into the PCs access authorised services only radio button.
Click the New button near the right side of the page.
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to setup your router's firewall for XBOX360 Gears of War. Go ahead and enter the settings shown below into the PC Privileges menu.
| PC Privileges | ||
| PC's IP Address | 192.168.2. | |
| Select services authorised from this PC: | ||
| eMail(110,25) Internet(80) FTP(21) News(119) | ||
| Block or Allow other services: | ||
| {specify ports} | ||
| All other services | ||
And that is it! You are done!
To test if your port has been properly opened, you can use our Port Checker tool.
Didn't find the screenshot you were looking for? Check our our giant collection of router screenshots.
