Free Port Forwarding Guides & PFConfig: Forward Your Ports Automatically

Configuring the Port Trigger Application

This guide allows you to use our Port Trigger application along with the port triggering section of your router to forward ports.

Open up the Port Trigger application, and click New button to configure a new rule.

Put a name of the program you are forwarding ports for in to the Application Name box. It doesn't really matter what you put into this box, but something that will remind you why this configuration is here would be a good idea. Click the Autoset button to get an external ip address. Alternatively you can enter any ip address that is outside of your network, in to the Target Address box. Enter the trigger port to use into the Trigger Port box. Once again it doesn't really matter what port you use here. You can pick any random port to put into the Trigger Port box, or just leave at it's default setting. Select the protocol to use by clicking the UDP/TCP radio buttons. Once again it doesn't really matter what protocol you select, but you do need to remember which one you chose. Later on in this guide, we will be entering the selections you chose here into your router. The Delay box tells the Port Trigger application how often to send the packets. If you have problems, like the ports not being forwarded all the time, you should decrease the number in the delay box.

I need you to fill in the boxes below, with the values you entered into the Port Trigger application. Entering the requested values will allow this guide to show you exactly how to configure your router.

Configuring your Router to work with Port Trigger.

Before we can forward ports for BitTorrent, we should set the ports that BitTorrent uses. Here is a brief walkthrough on how to do that. Go ahead and open up BitTorrent.

In the menu at the top of your screen, click the View link. Then in the list of options that drops down click the Settings option.

A new window should have poped up that looks like the picture above. There are a few tabs at the top of this window, click the Network tab.

The number in the starting at port box tells BitTorrent where you start looking for open ports. BitTorrent works it's way up from that port number until it finds a port that is open. Every port that BitTorrent has to check takes time. So it would be a good idea to forward the port that you enter into the Starting at Port box. Many ISPs block ports in the 6000 range. Please choose a port between 10000 and 60000 then enter it into the Starting at Port box. Then enter that port into the box below.

If you plan on downloading multiple files at the same time via BitTorrent, you need to open up one port for each file. This guide will show you how to open up one port for each file. If you chose to put port 12540 into the Starting at Port box and wanted to have five files going at the same time, you should forward ports 12540 to 12544.

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 prompted for your password. Enter your password now. By default the password is admin. Click the Ok button to log in to your router.

In the menu on the left hand side of your screen, click the Firewall link.

Use the Firewall Enable/Disable drop down box to disable the firewall. Then click the Apply button to save that change.

In the new menu that dropped down under firewall, click the Special Applications link.

We will list a series of configurations here that will show you exactly how to setup your router. BitTorrent requires you to forward the ports you entered above. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into your routers Special Application menu.

We are going to create an additional configuration, so that all of the ports we need to forward are forwarded. Go ahead and enter the settings shown in the screenshot above into a blank line of the Special Application page.

At the bottom of this menu click the Save or the Apply button.

And that's it! You're done!