The Default Firewalling Guide for the Dlink DIR-657

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 username and password. Enter your username and password now. By default the username is admin, and the password is blank. 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 Advanced link near the top of the page.

The menu on the left should change. In this new menu, click Firewall Settings.

Remove the checkmark from the Enable SPI checkbox.

Put a dot into the UDP Endpoint Filtering - Endpoint Independent radio button.

Put a dot into the TCP Endpoint Filtering - Endpoint Independent radio button.

Remove the checkmark from the Enable anti-spoof checking checkbox.

When you're finished, click Save Settings near the top 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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