Port Forwarding Shareaza on the Arris TM501b
Before we can forward ports for Shareaza, we need to figure out what ports Shareaza is using. Here is a brief walkthrough on how to do that. Go ahead and open up Shareaza.
Click Tools in the menu at the top of your screen. In the list that drops down click Shareaza Settings.
On the left hand side of the screen click Internet. Then click the Connection link in that menu. You should see a Port box on this page. You can set the port to be whatever you want, but using a port between 10000 and 60000 would be a good idea. ISPs do not usually block these high numbered ports. Please enter the port you chose into the box below.
Shareaza's Port for incoming connections
To setup port forwarding on this router your computer needs to have a static ip address.
Try our free PF Setup Static IP Address Program which will setup a static ip address for your computer.
Or you can 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 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 192.168.2.1.
You should see a box prompting you for your username and password. Enter your username and password now.
By default the username is admin, and the password is 1234. Click the Ok button to log in to your router.
Please visit our Default Router Passwords page if the username and password shown above did not work for you.
Click the General Setup button near the left of the page.
Click the NAT link near the left of the page.
You should now see a new menu. In this new menu, click Virtual Server or Port Forwarding.
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. Shareaza requires you to forward the ports you entered above. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Virtual Server or Port Forwarding menu and then click Add.
| Private IP | Private Port | Type | Public Port | Comment |
And that is it! You are done!
To test if your port has been properly forwarded, you can use our Port Checker tool.
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