My Mental Outburst

Well for all my friends using Airtel broadband and who wanna experience high downloading speeds… here’s the process:

When do u need port forwarding:
Typically when you want computers outside your LAN to access your computer. Some examples can be when u set up a ftp server on my machine for other people to access, or you are running a bittorrent client such as utorrent, or when you want to play Age of Empires on the network.

Steps:
Configuring the Airtel Modem.

• open url http://192.168.1.1/main.html
• The default Username is “Admin” and password is “password”
• Advanced Setup -> NAT -> Virtual Servers
• the Server IP would be same as your IP Address .
• If you want to play Age of Empires, you can just select this from the dropdown (it is pre-configured). Click on Save/Apply and you are done.
• In case the service isn’t pre-configured, such as utorrent. Click on Custom Service. Put name utorrent (anything, doesn’t matter)
• You would need to put which port to forward. utorrent typically runs on 19556, so put 19556 in all the four text fields i.e. External Port Start, External Port End, Internal Port Start and Internal Port End.
• Choose the protocol. In case of utorrent, and in most other cases, it would be TCP. Click on Save/Apply.
• Thats all. Port Forwarding should start working right away.

Please note that these steps are applicable only if you are not using any other routers (wireless or otherwise) with your modem.