Port Forwarding Ares on the 2wire BT2700HG-V
Before we can forward ports for Ares, we need to figure out what ports ares is using. Here is a brief walkthrough on how to do that.
Open up Ares. Then click the Control Panel icon in the toolbar at the top of your screen.
You should see a bunch of tabs close to the top of this window. One of these tabs should be labeled Transfer. Go ahead and click it now.
Enter the port you want Ares to use into the Accept incoming connections on port box. By default this port is set to 1157. You can change it to whatever you like, or leave it set to 1157.
Please enter the port you chose for Ares below.
Ares' Port
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 192.168.1.254.
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.
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. Ares requires you to forward the ports you entered above. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Edit Application menu and then click Add Definition.
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| Application Name: | |||||
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| Protocol: | TCP | UDP | |||
| Port (or Range): | From: | To: | |||
| Protocol Timeout (seconds): | TCP default=86400 UDP default=600 | ||||
| Map to Host Port: | Default= the same port as defined above | ||||
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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!
To test if your port has been properly forwarded, you can use our Port Checker tool.
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