If you are a hardcore fan of playing the online games then you will need to manage the port forwarding for your device and accessing and managing the port forwarding for your Linksys wifi router device you will need to access the Linksys router setup page. You will need to follow different steps for accessing the port forwarding for different Linksys wifi router devices. In this article we are considering the Linksys E2100L WiFi Router Device for explaining the port forwarding steps. If you are using any other device then you can try to explore our blog session and from there you can find port forwarding steps for your router device.
Here are the Steps to Have Port Forwarding for your Linksys E2100L WiFi Router Device
- First you will need to access the 168.1.1 Linksys Setup page for reflecting the port forwarding to your device. using http:// myrouter.local web address you can login to the access page for your device.
- After that you will find the port forwarding option under the settings page for your device. there you will find a number of options for your port forwarding.
- Using the “Enable” or “Disable” button you can make sure that you have enabled the port forwarding for your Linksys E2100L WiFi Router Device.
- Using the “Application Name” session you can give a unique name to your port forwarding session. You will need to make sure that you can change the login password for your Linksys E2100L WiFi Router Device. under the management session you can manage the Linksys router login access for your Linksys E2100L WiFi Router Device.
- For specifying the “External Port” for your device port forwarding you can specify under the external ports. In same way you can use the internet port session for specifying the external ports for your device.
- You will also need to specify the protocols for your port forwarding. Under the port forwarding session you can specify the ports like TCP or UDP for your device. TCP is the “Transmission Control Protocol” and UDP is the “User Datagram Protocol”.
- Using the IP address session for your Linksys E2100L WiFi Router Device you can specify the computer system that will receive the data packets from outside of the network. You can also specify the parental controls for your device and block the websites that you do not want to allow for your family members.