The Default Firewalling Guide for the Belkin F5D8233-4v1

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 192.168.2.1.

Click the Firewall link near the left of the page.

You should see a box prompting you for your password. Enter your password now. By default your password is blank. Click the Submit 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.

Put a dot into the Disable radio button.

When you're finished, click Apply Changes near the bottom of the screen to save your changes.

And that's it! You're done!

To test if your port has been properly opened, you can use our Port Checker tool.

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