Port Forwarding the 2wire 1000hw Router for PS3 SingStar Vol. 2

What is Port Forwarding?

If you don't know what Port Forwarding is yet, you might want to start by reading our What is Port Forwarding guide.

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Login to the 2wire 1000hw Router

Now we need to know your routers IP address. You can find it a variety of ways.

How To Find Your 2wire 1000hw Router IP Address

It's ok if you don't know your 2wire 1000hw router's internal IP address. You can find it by doing one of the following:

• Either find your router IP address using this guide: How To Find Your Routers IP Address
• Or you can use our Free Software to find your router IP address. PF Static IP Address and PF Router Detector are both free software applications that will help you find your router IP address.

Login To The 2wire 1000hw Router Using Your Web Browser

Open a web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. Enter the internal IP address of your router in the address bar of your browser.

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 2wire 1000hw router. By default the IP address should be set to 172.16.0.1.

How to Port Forward PS3 SingStar Vol. 2 on the 2wire 1000hw

Having trouble forwarding ports on the 2wire 1000hw?

If you are having trouble with this guide, then perhaps PFConfig may be your solution. PFConfig is a software tool that will automatically forward ports for your 2wire 1000hw router to save you time and hassle.

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Now that you are logged in to your 2wire 1000hw router you should see the following:

Look for your password on the bottom of your router or in the paperwork that came with your router.

Click the Firewall button.

Click the Firewall Settings button.

Use the Select a computer box to choose a computer to forward ports to. This box contains a list of computer names that are visible on your network.

Click the Add a new user-defined application link.

Forward Port 5223 on the 2wire 1000hw

We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. PS3 SingStar Vol. 2 requires you to forward the TCP(5223) and UDP(5223,3478,3479,3658) ports. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Edit Application menu and then click Add Definition.

Forward Port 5223 on the 2wire 1000hw

You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Edit Application page. Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Add Definition.

Forward Port 3478 on the 2wire 1000hw

You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Edit Application page. Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Add Definition.

Forward Port 3479 on the 2wire 1000hw

You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Edit Application page. Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Add Definition.

Forward Port 3658 on the 2wire 1000hw

You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Edit Application page. Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Add Definition.

Click the Back button.

Select the applications you just created in the Applications list, then click the Add button to move them to the Hosted Applications box.

When you are finished, click the Done button at the bottom of your screen.

And that is it! You are done!

Test if Your Ports are Open

Now that you have forwarded ports for PS3 SingStar Vol. 2 on the 2wire 1000hw you should test to see if your ports are forwarded correctly.

To test if your port has been properly forwarded, you can use our Open Port Check tool. Our Open Port Check tool is the only online port checking tool with Guaranteed Results.

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