How to Open a Port in Your Router for Emby

You may need to forward ports in your router when you use Emby. By forwarding ports you allow connection requests coming from the internet to be directed to Emby.

Routers generally do not allow incoming connection requests from the internet. By forwarding a port you can overcome this limitation.

Make sure that you know these things before forwarding a port:

• Your router's IP address.
• The IP address of your media server.
• The TCP and UDP ports that need to be forwarded.

You may have changed your Emby port numbers. To check what your current Emby port numbers are, follow these steps.

Access your server's settings either by entering your server's address, or by using the Emby icon in your system tray.

Select Configure Emby from the menu.

You may have to click the Gear icon, depending on how you accessed your server.

You should now be on the Server Dashboard. You can see what ports your server is running on here.

To change what ports your server uses, or make sure you're allowing remote connections, click the Network tab.

If you want to change the ports your server uses you can do so here, and be sure that Allow remote connections to this Emby Server is checked or remote connections will be blocked. Don't forget to click Save if you made any changes.

Use a VPN Instead

Have you considered using a VPN instead of forwarding a port? For most users, a VPN is a much simpler and more secure choice than forwarding a port.

We use and recommend NordVPN because not only is it the fastest VPN, it includes a new feature called Meshnet that makes forwarding a port no longer necessary for most applications. With NordVPN Meshnet, you can connect to your devices from anywhere in the world, completely secure, over a highly encrypted VPN tunnel.

When shopping for a VPN, make sure that they meet the following criteria:

• Your VPN provider should have a no-logs policy. This means that they do not keep any logs of any kind.
• Make sure that your VPN provider has lots of exit nodes all around the world.
• Check that your VPN will not affect your speed.
• Verify that your VPN provider uses WireGuard as the underlying protocol.
• Many people prefer a VPN provider that is not based in the United States.

This is the list of requirements that we used when we were shopping around for a VPN provider. There are lots of free, shady VPN providers out there that we looked at and dismissed.

Based in Panama, using diskless servers, and with over 6,100 servers in 61 countries, we can safely say that NordVPN satisfies all of these requirements.

Once you've set up your NordVPN account on multiple computers and enabled Meshnet, you can seamlessly access all of your devices as if they were on the same network. You don't even have to log in to your router. It's very simple.

Every time you click on one of our affiliate links, such as NordVPN, we get a little kickback for introducing you to the service. Think of us as your VPN wingman.

We have free Router Detector software to help you find your router's IP address. It is part of our Network Utilities suite of tools and is free for you to use it.

We have a guide you can follow Find Your Router IP Address if you don't want to run the software.

You can use our Network Utilities software to automatically forward ports for you. Our Network Utilities software allows you to add port forwards and also remove them when you no longer need them to maximize your network security.

You can also choose to set up port forwards manually. The normal process for forwarding a port is:

• Start by logging in to your router.
• Locate your routers port forwarding section.
• Type the IP address of your media server into the correct box in your router.
• It is now time to type the TCP and UDP ports that you are forwarding for Emby in the correct boxes in your router.

Frequently you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

You can choose your router from our list to see exactly how to forward ports for Emby:

List of Routers - Customized for Emby

The following ports need to be forwarded for Emby:

Emby - PC

• TCP: 8096, 8920
• UDP:

Those are the steps for forwarding ports in your router for Emby.

Don't forget to sign up for NordVPN's promo deal before it's gone.