Before we can forward ports for WinMX, we need to figure out what ports WinMX is using. Here is a brief walkthrough on how to do that. Go ahead and open up WinMX.

Click the Settings button in the menu at the top of your screen.

Under Internet Connection click the Incomming TCP Connections link. You should see a Listen on Port box. The port in that box is the one that needs to be forwarded to your computer. Please enter a port into that box. It doesn't matter what port number you choose, but a port number between 10000 and 60000 would be a good idea. Higher numbered ports are generally not blocked by ISPs. Please enter the port you chose for the Listen on Port box into the box below.

Once again in the Internet Connection section we are going to click a link. This time click the In/Out UDP Packets link. You should see an Send and receive UDP datagrams on port box. This is the port that you need to forward for your UDP connections. Once again pick a random port between 10000 and 60000, and enter it into that box. Please enter the port you chose for the Send and receive UDP datagrams on port box into the box below.

To setup port forwarding on this router your computer needs to have a static ip address. Take a look at our Static IP Address guide to setup a static ip address. When you are finished setting up a static ip address, please come back to this page and enter the ip address you setup in the Static IP Address box below.

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 see a box prompting you for your password. Enter your password now. By default your password is admin. Click the Log in button to log in to your router.

Click the Firewall link near the left side of the page.

We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. WinMX requires you to forward the ports you entered above. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Virtual Servers menu.

You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Virtual Servers page. Go ahead and enter those settings now.

When you're finished, click Save near the right side of the screen to save your changes.

And that's it! You're done!