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Port Forwarding for the Actiontec GT704-WG


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Before we can forward ports for eMule, we need to figure out what ports eMule is using. Here is a brief walkthrough on how to do that. Go ahead and open up eMule.




Click the Options button in the menu at the top of your screen.




Click the Connection option on the left hand side of your screen. You should see a TCP box and an UDP box. Enter a random port into each of these boxes. It doesn't matter what ports you choose, but a port numbers between 10000 and 60000 would be a good idea. A higher numbered port is generally the best to use, because most ISP's do not block the higher numbered ports. Please enter the port you chose for the TCP box into the box below.

eMule's port for incoming TCP connections



Please enter the port you chose for the UDP box into the box below.

eMule's port for incoming UDP connections




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 side of the page.




Click the Begin Advanced Setup button.


Click the Application Level Gateway link near the left side of the page.




Put a dot into the User radio button. Click the New button.


Rule Name    
Protocol    
Port Start Port End
Port Map    

We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. eMule 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    

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

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 side of the screen to save your changes.

And that's it! You're done!