Port Forwarding BitLord on the Actiontec GT704-WG
BitLord chooses a random port to listen on when you install it. Before we can forward ports for BitLord, we need to find out what port BitLord is using. Go ahead and open BitLord.
In the menu at the top of your screen, click Options. Clicking Options will cause a menu to drop down. In this new menu click Preferences.
In the menu on the left the top option Connection should be selected. On the right hand side of this window you should see a Listen Port option. That is the port that you need to forward. You can change it if you like. Please enter the listen port below.
BitLord's Listen Port:
There is one more thing we need to do. We need to shut off the UPNP of BitLord.
In the menu on the left hand side under Advanced, click Connection. There should be an Enable UPnP Port Mapping(XP only) checkbox on the right hand side. Make sure it is unchecked.
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 192.168.0.1.
Click the Setup / Configuration link.
Click the Advanced Setup link near the left of the page.
Click the Begin Advanced Setup button.
Click the Application Level Gateway link near the left of the page.
Put a dot into the User radio button.
Click the New button.
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. BitLord requires you to forward the ports you entered above. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Rule Management menu and then click Apply.
| Rule Name | |||
| Protocol | |||
| Port Start | Port End | ||
| Port Map |
When you are finished, click the Back button.
Use the LAN Device box to choose a computer to forward ports to. This box contains a list of computer names that are visible on your network.
Select the applications you just created in the Available Rules list, then click the Add>> button to move them to the Applied Rule box.
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.
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