Before we can forward ports for ABC, we need to figure out what ports ABC is using. Here is a brief walkthrough on how to do that. Go ahead and open up ABC.
Click File in the menu at the top of the program. Then click Preferences in the list that drops down.
In the menu on the left hand side of your screen, click the Network link. On this page you should see a Port box. You can change the port number that ABC is using if you like. The number that is in that Port box is the port that you will have to forward. Please enter the number that was in that box below.
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.
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 both the username and password are blank. Click the Login 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 Advanced Setup link near the center of the page.
Click the NAT link near the left of the page.
You should now see a new menu. In this new menu, click Virtual Server.
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. ABC requires you to forward the ports you entered above. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Virtual Server menu.
When you're finished, click Apply near the bottom of the screen to save your changes. And that's it! You're done!
