Port Forwarding mIRC DCC - IRC DCC on the Belkin F5D7231-4

What is Port Forwarding?

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Before we can forward ports for mIRC, we need to set the ports that Mirc uses. Here is a brief walkthrough on how to do that. Go ahead and open up mIRC.

Click View in the menu at the top of your screen. In the list that drops down click Options.

On the left hand side of this new page click the plus sign in front of Connect. In the list that drops down click the Options link. There should be an Advanced button on this page. Go ahead and click it now.

Make sure there is a checkmark in the DCC checkbox. We will be using 10051 through 10070 as our port range in this example, but you can choose any port range you like. If you decide to choose another port range, you will need to forward the ports you chose instead of 10051 to 10070. The port range we are using in this example gives us plenty of ports for DCC file transfers. Once you have set the ports to use click the OK button all the way out to mIRC's main menu.

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 you.

Or you can take alook 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 password. Enter your password now. By default your password is blank. Click the Submit 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 Virtual servers link near the left 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. mIRC DCC - IRC DCC requires you to forward the following ports: 1024-5000. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Virtual servers menu.

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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