Port Forwarding Age of Mythology on the BT BTHomeHub

What is Port Forwarding?

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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 192.168.1.254.

You should see a box prompting you for your username and password. Enter your username and password now. By default both the username and password are admin. Click the Ok button to log in to your router.

Please visit our Default Router Passwords page if the username and password shown above do not work for you.

Click the Advanced link near the left of the page.

Click the Continue to Advanced link near the center of the page.

The menu on the left should change. In this new menu, click Application Sharing.

Click the click here link near the center of the page.

Enter the name of the program into the Name box. It doesn't really matter what you put into this box, but something that will remind you why these ports are being forwarded would be a good idea.

Put a dot into the Manual Entry of Port Maps radio button.

Click the Next button.

We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. Age of Mythology requires you to forward the 2300-2400,6073,28800-28805 ports. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Game or Application Definition menu and then click Apply.

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

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

Click the Apply button near the top of the page.

Use the 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 application you created using the Game or Application drop down box. Then click Add to enable it.

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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