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To setup port forwarding on the Thomson-Alcatel ACG905 router your computer needs to have a static IP address. You should complete one of the following steps first:
Now that you have setup a Static IP Address on your computer, please enter the IP address that you assigned to your computer here:
Now we need to know your routers IP address. You can find it a variety of ways.
It's ok if you don't know your Thomson-Alcatel ACG905 router's internal IP address. You can find it by doing one of the following:
Open a web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. Enter the internal 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 internal IP address of your Thomson-Alcatel ACG905 router. By default the IP address should be set to 192.168.100.1.
You should see a box prompting you for your username and password. Enter your username and password now.
Click the Login button to log in to your Thomson-Alcatel ACG905 router.
Please visit our Default Thomson-Alcatel Router Passwords page if the username and password shown below did not work for you.
If you can't login to your router because you forgot your Thomson-Alcatel ACG905 router username and password, use our How to Reset a Router Password guide to set your Thomson-Alcatel ACG905 router back to its factory settings.
If you are having trouble with this guide, then perhaps PFConfig may be your solution. PFConfig is a software tool that will automatically forward ports for your Thomson-Alcatel ACG905 router to save you time and hassle.
Now that you are logged in to your Thomson-Alcatel ACG905 router you should see the following:
Click the Router link near the top of the page.
The menu on the left should change. In this new menu, click Forwarding.
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. BlackSite - Area 51 requires you to forward the 6777,7777-7797,30660 ports. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Forwarding menu and then click Plus.
| Application Name | Source Port(s) | Protocol | IP Address | Destination Port | |
You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Forwarding page. Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Plus.
| Application Name | Source Port(s) | Protocol | IP Address | Destination Port | |
You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Forwarding page. Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Plus.
| Application Name | Source Port(s) | Protocol | IP Address | Destination Port | |
And that is it! You are done!
Now that you have forwarded ports for BlackSite - Area 51 on the Thomson-Alcatel ACG905 you should test to see if your ports are forwarded correctly.
To test if your port has been properly forwarded, you can use our Open Port Check tool. Our Open Port Check tool is the only online port checking tool with Guaranteed Results.
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