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Port Forwarding for the Actiontec MI-424-WR


What is Port Forwarding?
What is Port Triggering?




 

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



Click Tools in the menu at the top of your screen. In the list that drops down click Shareaza Settings.



On the left hand side of the screen click Internet. Then click the Connection link in that menu. You should see a Port box on this page. You can set the port to be whatever you want, but using a port between 10000 and 60000 would be a good idea. ISPs do not usually block these high numbered ports. Please enter the port you chose into the box below.

Shareaza's Port for incoming connections

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.

Do not skip this step!




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 username and password. Enter your username and password now. By default the username is admin, and the password is password. Click the Ok button to log in to your router.




Click the Security button near the top of the page.




Click the Port Forwarding link near the left hand side of the page.




Click the Add link.


Click the Add Server Ports link.


Protocol Exclude
Source Ports: Exclude
Destination Ports: Exclude

We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. Shareaza requires you to forward the ports you entered above. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Edit Service menu and then click Add.

Protocol Exclude
Source Ports: Exclude
Destination Ports: Exclude

You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Edit Service page. Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Add.

Click the Ok button. Select Specify Address from the Networked Computer/Device list. Enter the ip address to forward these ports to into the Networked Computer/Device box. If you are forwarding ports so you can run a program on your computer, you should enter your computer's ip address into that box. Leave Wan Connection Type set to All Broadband Devices. Leave Forward Port To set to Same as Incoming Port. Leave When should this rule occur set to Always. Click the Ok button.

And that is it! You are done!