Ever wanted to play online games and lo! you get a message that firewall has blocked the game from connecting to the internet. Now the next step is to allow the game in firewall's exception list but the situation remains same. We try to restart the computer thinking that it may effect the new settings but we remain to the point from where we started.
Most of us do not know the real problem behind it and blame the firewall installed (most of the time) and software that we are using. The main reason behind the problem is not firewall installed on the computer but the security firewall bundled with the internet broadband router provided by our ISP. The next step we take is to search Google. What we find there after going through various websites and forums that we need to forward port in the router as most of the pc game need a special port to communicate to internet. But most of us do not know how and what port we need to forward. Other than using port forward for online MMOPRG games. You can use the portforward to stream music from your computer to internet. And if you want to host your website in your PC then you can also use port forwarding to make your site hosted on your computer accessible from internet.
Port forwarding is a bit tricky but not any more as we can find loads of information regarding what port to forward and how to do it. You can get all the details on the website http://www.portforward.com/ . The website is so vast that we can find all the information that are required to make a PC Game connect to the internet and play an online multiplayer game. You can find almost all the famous games settings here.
Now no more waiting for the technician to forward port for you, just do it yourself and enjoy whole lot of programs that need port forwarding to work better.
Contributed By: Akash Khare
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1 comments:
Wow..
Your this post helped me a lot. I was facing the same problem while playing online games that my firewall does not let the game in my network. Now I think this article will help me in future about the same.
Thanks
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