Port Forwarding the Actiontec MI-424-WR Router for Night Owl FS-8500
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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Before Forwarding a Port Setup a Static IP Address
To setup port forwarding on the Actiontec MI-424-WR router your computer needs to have a static IP address. You should complete one of the following steps first:
- Either try our free program that will setup a static IP address for you called PF Setup Static IP.
- Or follow our Static IP Address guide to setup a static IP address.
Now that you have setup a Static IP Address on your computer, please enter the IP address that you assigned to your computer here:
Login to the Actiontec MI-424-WR Router
Now we need to know your routers IP address. You can find it a variety of ways.
How To Find Your Actiontec MI-424-WR Router IP Address
It's ok if you don't know your Actiontec MI-424-WR 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 Actiontec MI-424-WR 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 Actiontec MI-424-WR router. By default the IP address should be set to 192.168.1.1.
You should see a box prompting you for your username and password. Enter your username and password now.
The Default Actiontec MI-424-WR Router Username is: admin
The Default Actiontec MI-424-WR Router Password is: password
Click the Ok button to log in to your Actiontec MI-424-WR router.
Default Usernames and Passwords for other Actiontec Routers
Please visit our Default Actiontec Router Passwords page if the username and password shown below did not work for you.
If you can't login to your router because you forgot your Actiontec MI-424-WR router username and password, use our How to Reset a Router Password guide to set your Actiontec MI-424-WR router back to its factory settings.
How to Port Forward Night Owl FS-8500 on the Actiontec MI-424-WR
Having trouble forwarding ports on the Actiontec MI-424-WR?
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 Actiontec MI-424-WR router to save you time and hassle.
Actiontec MI-424-WR Router Port Forwarding Screenshots
Now that you are logged in to your Actiontec MI-424-WR router you should see the following:
Click the Security button near the top of the page.
Click the Port Forwarding link near the left of the page.
Click the Add link.
Click the Add Server Ports link.
Forward Port 80 on the Actiontec MI-424-WR
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. Night Owl FS-8500 requires you to forward the 80,9000 ports. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Edit Service menu and then click Add.
| Protocol | Exclude | |
| Source Ports: | Exclude | |
| Destination Ports: | Exclude |
Forward Port 9000 on the Actiontec MI-424-WR
You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Edit Service page. Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Add.
| Protocol | Exclude | |
| Source Ports: | Exclude | |
| Destination Ports: | Exclude |
Click the Ok button.
Select Specify Address from the Networked Computer/Device list.
Enter the ip address to forward these ports to into the Networked Computer/Device box. If you are forwarding ports so you can run a program on your computer, you should enter your computer's ip address into that box.
Leave Wan Connection Type set to All Broadband Devices.
Leave Forward Port To set to Same as Incoming Port.
Leave When should this rule occur set to Always.
Click the Ok button.
And that is it! You are done!
Test if Your Ports are Open
Now that you have forwarded ports for Night Owl FS-8500 on the Actiontec MI-424-WR 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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