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.

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 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 Advanced link near the left side of the page.

You should now see a new menu. In this new menu, click Virtual Servers.

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 Virtual Servers menu and then click Add as New Server.

And that is it! You are done!