Free Port Forwarding Guides & PFConfig: Forward Your Ports Automatically
The Default Port Forwarding Guide for the Blitzz BWA611B
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 the username is admin, and the password is blank. 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 Advanced link near the right of the page.
Click the Virtual Servers link near the left of the page.
Click the Clear Form button.
Put a checkmark in the Enable checkbox.
Enter the name of the program into the following 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.
Use the PC (Server) box to choose a computer to forward ports to. This box contains a list of computer names that are visible on your network.
Use the Protocol drop down box to select the protocol type of the ports you are forwarding.
Enter the port to forward into the Internal Port No. and the External Port No. boxes.
When you are finished, click the Add as a new Server button.
Most people will never need to use this, but I'm going to explain why they have Internal Port and External Port here. The Internal Port and External Port entries are actually rather useful. They are there so you can direct traffic at two computers on your network. Let's say that you have two computers running Ftp servers on your network. Let's call these computers computer one(192.168.2.10) and computer two(192.168.2.11). Let's also say both these ftp servers are running on port 21. Okay we setup your router to forward port 21 to computer one(192.168.2.10:21). So every external ip address request from ftp goes two computer one. How do we get to the second computer? Well the Internal Port and External Port entries allow us to specify another outside port to connect to our internal port 21. Lets make the additional port, port 30. We would now setup a rule in the router with the Public Port set to 30 and the Private port set to 21. The ip address in that rule would be 192.168.2.11. So when you wanted to ftp to computer two you would specify port 30 in your ftp client. The router would see these requests coming in on port 30 and forward them to (192.168.2.11:21). This would allow you to ftp to both computers.
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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