Step 1: Find your routers gateway IP
Windows 7
1. Click the Windows Orb (Start button)
2. In the search bar at the bottom type CMD.
3. Click the application CMD
4. Type IPCONFIG
5. Find your adapter and then find the gateway IP information, it should look something like: Gateway IP . . . . . . . 192.168.0.1
Step 2: Set your PC to a static IP address…
Windows 7
1. Click the wireless icon in the right hand sector of the taskbar.
2. Select the bottom link ‘Open network and Sharing Center’
3. In the left hand menu click ‘Change adapter settings’
4. Find your adapter (Should be ‘Wireless Network Conenction’ for WiFi users and ‘Local Area Connection’ for ethernet users)
5. Right click your adapter and select properties
6. Select ‘Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and then click the properties button.
7. Click the ‘Use the following IP address:’ ratio button
8. Enter the required information, usually the following:
IP Address: 192.168.*.117
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Default gateway: 192.168.*.1
Preferred DNS server: 192.168.*.1
Alternate DNS server: *leave blank*
*Replace the * with the routers third IP digit so if the gateway IP was 192.168.0.1 you would replace the * with 0.
Windows XP
1. Navigate to control panel, make sure it’s on classic view.
2. Click network connections
3. Right click your adapter and select properties
4. Follow steps 6-8 for Windows 7 (above)
Step 3: Configuring your router
1. Open your preferred browser
2. Enter http:// in the address bar followed by the routers gateway IP so in my example I would type http://192.168.0.1
3. You may be asked for a username and password, most of the time it’s one of the following:
Username: admin
Password: admin or password
4. This is where it gets tricky depending on your router, most routers use similar interfaces so I’ll do a NETGEAR guide and people using different routers can PM me with their router model and I can assist from there.
5. For this guide I’ll be using the NETGEAR DG834GT. Once you logon to the routers remote configuration page select ‘services’ from the menu on the left hand side. This part often isn’t required for most other routers, just NETGEARS.
6. Click ‘Add custom service’
7. In the first box enter the name of the service for example: RSPS. In the second box select TCP/UDP. In the third box enter the port you wish to forward (43594) enter this value into the forth box also.
8. Select ‘Firewall Rules’ from the left menu.
9. You should see two tables, Outbound services and Inbound services.
10. Under outbound services select ‘Add’
11. In the first drop down menu select the service you created before (RSPS).
12. In the second drop down menu select Always allow.
13. Leave both the LAN IP options as Any and the the the Log as always.
14. Click Apply.
15. Click ‘add’ under Inbound services
16. Do what you did for outbound accept you will have a ‘Send to LAN’ textbox now. Enter the static IP you set earlier.
17. Your portforwarding is now complete, finally!
Hope you found this guide useful and remember if you need help PM me the router name/model and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
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