[Tut]Port Forwarding [General Guide Only!] - Innovative

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How to Port Forward!

This is just a simple and general guide on how to port forward a router. Note, this isnt needed if you're running on a modem and you have no router attached.
-Step One- Create a shortcut to "cmd" on your desktop.
Open up the shortcut and you should see a black box. [dont panic, its nothing bad]




-Step Two- In the black box, type the following "ipconfig" and note down your "Default Gateway" and "IP Address" under your "Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection"




-Step Three- Open up Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera or any other internet browser you prefer and enter the following:
"http://defaultgateway".
Where "defaultgateway" is the numbers of your default gateway you noted down earlier.
This should then give you a prompt for a username and password, if you have changed your routers username or password, by default it should be:

Username: root
Password: [blank]
or
Username: admin
Password: admin
or
Username: admin
Password: password or pass

If you have changed the credentials, enter them in.
If none of your logins work, you have a problem...




-Step Four- You should have entered your routers main configuration page.
Now for the tricky part.
Scour around the settings and options and try and locate a link for:
"Port Mapping"
"Port Forwarding"
"NAT or Network Address Translation"
[If your router has other names for it, please post]




-Step Five- After pressing the link you will be directed to a page with alot of boxes and numbers.
Again, scour around for boxes with a label "TCP" and "UDP" in these boxes enter the ports you want to forward.
If instead you are given two boxes asking you to state a "Start" and "End" port, in both boxes enter the same port if you don't want to port forward a range. For example:
Start End
8484 8484
Example with NO range.
or

Start End
8484 9000
Example with range from 8484 to 9000.




-Step Six- You will then be asked what your "LAN IP" address is, enter this in.
Usually it will already be entered and available as a radio button.




-Step Seven- Press Ok and you should have port forwarded that particular port/s!

If you have a different way or port forwarding, please share!