Port Forwarding the MI424-WR Rev C
Written by Mat Collins on January 12, 2008 – 1:34 pmJust today my Verizon FiOS service was activated. It came with an Actiontec MI424-WR Revision C modem/router combo. Slick look, ok reviews on the net, so I’ll go with it!
The first thing I wanted to get done, was open up some ports for uTorrent, HTTP, and a few others. There’s many resources out there that give you directions on forwarding ports on the MI424-WR Rev. C, including PortForward.com. Finding the directions was a breeze, however figuring out that the directions were wrong wasn’t.
When you are adding a server service port on the router, your source port needs to be set to any, and your destination port needs to be set to single, with the port number typed in next to it. Here’s an example:
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May 18th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Thanks for this tip…I’ve been working on opening up ports on my Actiontec for awhile. I kept getting lost in all the settings changes but this one simple piece of advice that you spelled out finally worked. Thanks again!