Free Port Forwarding Guides & PFConfig: Forward Your Ports Automatically
Port Forwarding Remote Desktop on the Linksys RV082
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 192.168.1.1.
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 Setup link near the top of the page.
You should now see a new menu. In this new menu, click Forwarding.
Click the Service Management button.
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. Remote Desktop requires you to forward the 3389 ports. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Service Management menu and then click Add to list.
| Service Name |
| Protocol |
| Port Range to |
You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Service Management page. Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Add to list.
| Service Name |
| Protocol |
| Port Range to |
When you are finished, click the Save Setting button.
Select the application you created using the Service drop down box. Then click Enable to enable it.
Enter the ip address to forward these ports to into the IP Address box. If you are forwarding ports so you can run a program on your computer, you should enter your computer's ip address into that box.
Click the Add to list button.
When you're finished, click Save Settings 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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