Free Port Forwarding Guides & PFConfig: Forward Your Ports Automatically
Port Forwarding Age of Empires on the Buffalo WBMR-G54
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 192.168.11.1.
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 button near the top of the page.
The menu on the left should change. In this new menu, click Virtual Server.
Put a dot into the User radio button.
Click the Add button near the bottom 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. Age of Empires requires you to forward the 2300-2400,6073,47624 ports. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Rule Management menu and then click Apply.
| Rule Name | ||
| Protocol | ||
| Port Start | Port End | |
| Port Map |
You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Rule Management page. Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Apply.
| Rule Name | ||
| Protocol | ||
| Port Start | Port End | |
| Port Map |
You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Rule Management page. Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Apply.
| Rule Name | ||
| Protocol | ||
| Port Start | Port End | |
| Port Map |
Select the applications you just created in the Available Rules list, then click the Add > button to move them to the Applied Rules box.
When you're finished, click Apply near the bottom of the screen to save your changes.
And that's it! You're done!
To test if your port has been properly forwarded, you can use our Port Checker tool.
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