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Port Forwarding Remote Support System on the Actiontec GT701WG


What is Port Forwarding?
What is Port Triggering?


To setup port forwarding on this router your computer needs to have a static ip address. Take a look at our Static IP Address guide to setup a static ip address. When you are finished setting up a static ip address, please come back to this page and enter the ip address you setup in the Static IP Address box below.

Do not skip this step!




Open a web browser like internet explorer or Netscape. Enter the 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 ip address of your router. By default the ip address should be set to 192.168.0.1.




Click the Setup / Configuration link.


Click the Advanced Setup link near the left of the page.




Click the Begin Advanced Setup button.


Click the Port Forward link near the left of the page.




We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. Remote Support System requires you to forward the 5500 ports. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Port Forwarding menu and then click Add.

IP Port Range Protocol IP Address
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When you're finished, click Save and Restart near the left of the screen to save your changes.

And that's it! You're done!



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