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Port Forwarding BearShare on the Netopia 2247NWG-VGx


What is Port Forwarding?
What is Port Triggering?


Before we can forward ports for BearShare, we need to figure out what ports BearShare is using. Here is a brief walkthrough on how to do that. Go ahead and open up BearShare.



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



On this page you should see a Listening Port for Incomming TCP and UDP Connections box. This box contains the port you need to forward to the computer you are running BearShare on. You can change this port number if you want to. Please enter the port you chose into the box below.

BearShare's Port for incoming connections

To setup port forwarding on this router your computer needs to have a static ip address. Take a look 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 Netscape. Enter the ip address of your router in the address bar of your browser. In the picture above the address bar has http://www.google.com in it. Just replace all of that with the 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 the username is admin, and the password is 1234. Click the Ok button to log in to your router.

Please visit our default username and passsword page, if the username and password shown above did not work for you.




Click the Expert Mode link near the left of the page.




Click the Yes, enter expert mode button near the center of the page.

The menu on the left should change. In this new menu, click Configure.

You should now see a new menu. In this new menu, click NAT.




Click the Define Custom Service button near the center of the page.




Put a dot into the Port Forwarding: Range of Ports radio button. Click the Next button.


We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. BearShare requires you to forward the ports you entered above. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Port Range menu and then click Next.

Service Name:
  The above name will be saved as this service's description
Global Port Range: -
Base Host Port:
Protocol: TCPUDP



Select the service you created from the Service Name drop down box. Click the Enable button.

And that is it! You are done!



To test if your port has been properly forwarded, you can use our Port Checker tool.