Free Port Forwarding Guides & PFConfig: Forward Your Ports Automatically
Port Forwarding Apprentice on the BT Voyager1500
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 192.168.1.250.
Click the Advanced link near the left of the page.
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 Configuration link near the left of the page.
You should now see a new menu. In this new menu, click Virtual Server.
Click the Port Forwarding link near the top of the page.
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. Apprentice requires you to forward the 4747 ports. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Virtual Server Configuration menu and then click Apply.
| Feature not applicable in Access Point mode | |||
| Port Forwarding | Enabled Disabled | ||
| Service | |||
| Select service from a list | |||
| Create rule manually | |||
| Service | Protocol | Wan Port | Lan Port |
| Select from devices currently connected to this access point | |||
| Enter MAC address manually | |||
| Enter IP address manually | |||
| Devices | |||
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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