Free Port Forwarding Guides & PFConfig: Forward Your Ports Automatically

Port Forwarding MSN Messenger on the Netgear CBVG834G

What is Port Forwarding?

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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!

192.168.0.
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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 192.168.0.1.

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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 password. 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.

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Click the Transfert de port link near the left of the page.

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We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. MSN Messenger requires you to forward the 1863,5190,6891-6900,6901 ports. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Transfert de port menu and then click Ajouter.

Nom Port de
debut		 Port de
fin		 Protocole Adresse IP locale
192.168.0 .

You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Transfert de port page. Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Ajouter.

Nom Port de
debut		 Port de
fin		 Protocole Adresse IP locale
192.168.0 .

You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Transfert de port page. Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Ajouter.

Nom Port de
debut		 Port de
fin		 Protocole Adresse IP locale
192.168.0 .

You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Transfert de port page. Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Ajouter.

Nom Port de
debut		 Port de
fin		 Protocole Adresse IP locale
192.168.0 .

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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