Huawei B2338-168 Router Port Forwarding Guide

A Huawei B2338-168 router contains a basic firewall to help protect your home network. A Firewall blocks incoming connections by nature. Sometimes you need to unblock some of these connections so you can run a game or application. This is called opening a port or port forwarding. Port forwarding is literally forwarding a port from the internet to your home network.

You need to follow the steps below to open ports in your Huawei B2338-168 router:

1. Set up a static IP address on the computer or device that you are forwarding ports to.
2. Log in to your Huawei B2338-168 router.
3. Find the Port Forwarding section in your Huawei B2338-168 router.
   • Click the Advanced tab at the top of the screen.
   • Click on the Port Forwarding tab, which is at the left of the screen.
4. Create a Port Forwarding entry.

If this sounds difficult, you are not alone. We will walk you through each step in opening a port for the Huawei B2338-168 router.

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Setup A Static IP Address

It is important to set up a static IP address in the device that you are forwarding a port to. This ensures that your ports remain forwarded even after a reboot, power outage, or another type of device or router disconnect.

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After setting up a static ip address on your devices you need to login to your router.

Login To Your Huawei Router

The Huawei B2338-168 router uses a web interface to display router settings. In order to login to the Huawei B2338-168 router you need to use a web browser.

Open your favorite web browser. If you don't have a favorite or are not sure what this means, open up Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. If you are already in a browser window, go ahead and open up a new tab.

We have simplified this step for you with this link: Login to your B2338-168 Router

Find the address bar in your browser window. This is usually found at the top of the page, like in the image below.

Above is an example of what a web browser address bar looks like. Find the address bar in your web browser and type in your router's IP address.

The Huawei B2338-168 router's default IP address is: 192.168.1.1

After typing your router's IP address into the address bar, make sure to click the enter button on your keyboard. You should see a box similar to the one shown below.

To login, enter the username and password for the Huawei B2338-168s. Important Note: If you have changed them in the past, you need to enter in those values.

• The default Huawei B2338-168 Router Username is: user
• The default Huawei B2338-168 Router Password is: Enduser

Once you enter your username and password, click the Login button.

Huawei Usernames and Passwords

If the username or password did not work check out our Default Huawei Router Passwords page.

If you are unable to log in even after trying the above list of passwords you may need to consider a reset for your router. Our guide How to Reset a Router can help you with that. After resetting the Huawei B2338-168 router your username and password will be reverted back to factory defaults.

Find the Port Forwarding Section

After a successful login to the Huawei B2338-168 router you should be on the home page of your router. Now you need to find the Port Forwarding section.

• Find the Advanced tab located near the top of the screen and click it.
• Click the Port Forwarding tab, which is at the left of the screen.

You are now on the Port Forwarding page.

Create A Port Forward

Forwarding ports in your router creates a path that allows data to get through your network firewall, and this could lead to malicious traffic on your network. So make sure that you must forward a port before actually doing so. However, the risk is very low, so do not let this warning stop you from making this change if you need to.

Here are the ports to forward for Xbox Live:

• TCP Ports: 3074
• UDP Ports: 3074

If you are looking for the ports for a different application you can find it by either:

• Browsing our List of Games
• Check out our our List of Games by Genre
• See our List of all Applications

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1. To start adding an entry you will want to click on the Add button, which is at the bottom of the screen.

2. Use the Protocol dropdown box to select the protocol type of the ports you are forwarding. If your router has the option of Both, then choose that. Otherwise, choose either TCP or UDP as needed. If you need to forward a port for both TCP and UDP and your router does not have Both, then you have to create two entries.

3. Enter the port number into the left WAN Port and the right WAN Port boxes to forward a single port. If you are forwarding a range of ports, enter the lowest number of that range into the left WAN Port box and then enter the highest number of that range into the right WAN Port box.

4. Take the same values that you entered into the left WAN Port box, and enter them into the LAN Port box.

5. Find the LAN IP box and enter the IP address that you want ports forwarded to. This can be either the IP address of your computer or any other IP address for devices on your network that you want to forward ports for.

6. Put a check in the box named Enabled.

7. Make sure to click the Apply button at the bottom of the page to apply these changes, when you are completely finished.

Test Your Open Ports

Finally, test your network to see if you have forwarded ports in the Huawei B2338-168 router correctly. To do this you can use Network Utilities, which includes a free Open Port Checker tool. Open Port Checker is the only online port-checking tool that has Guaranteed Results.

Other Guides You May Be Interested In:

• We have software called Network Utilities that do all of this and more.
• Learn more about how to Setup your router.
• A full listing of all our games and applications that require port forwarding.