How do I port forward on my Dlink DIR 615m?

D-link DIR 615m is widely used router which makes it easy to share your broadband connection with all of your devices. D-Link router is equipped with external antennas which are used to increase the network coverage so that you can avoid dead spot in your network and get a reliable connection throughout your home.

D-link DIR 615m router has very basic firewall which included that help to protect your local home network from unwanted access from the internet. By default firewall is the responsible factor to block all the connections to or from the internet . The Dlink router link manufacturer has made sure some connection open so user can use the internet. What happens when you want more connection open to use internet. To open more connection, port forwarding comes into the limelight which is used to open port . When you create a port forward so that your all the data on the particular port via network and this is quite handy  for other applications.

To create a port forward, you are required to the following things:

  • First setup a static IP address on the device or the computer to which you want this port forwarded to
  • Login your D-link DIR 615m router

  • Find the port forwarding section in your router setup page and for this you have to first click and then click on the advance button thereafter select the port forwarding button.
  • Thereafter enter appropriate data to create port forward and this port forward is quite difficult word to understand this time. Do not need to worry, we are explaining each and every thing about port forwarding.

Note: Port forwarding should be very easy so we created network utilities and our software does everything which are required to forward a port and when you use network utilities, you get your port forwarded right now.

Step-1 : 

It is very important to setup a static IP address in the device which you are forwarding port to. This ensures that your port will remain open even after reboot your device

  • It is recommended to go through free program to set a static IP address for you and for this first you need to download network utilities and follow set static IP address step by step tutorial 
  • After setting the static IP address on your device, you need to login your router

Step-2: 

Next you need to login your D-link DIR 615m router. To do this you first need to open any installed browser on your machine which might be Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox. In the address bar of the browser which is located at the top of the browser where you need to enter the IP address of the D-link DIR 615m router which is 192.168.0.1 and click on the enter key  and on entering this button, you will get login screen with username and password with appropriate boxes. Where you need to enter correct default username and password for the D-link DIR 615m router. We know that the default username for D-link DIR 615m router is admin and password box should be leave as blank and click on login to access your router setup page.

Step-3:

Now it’s time to find the port forwarding section in your router. To find this port forwarding section, you need to follow these steps:

  • First click on the advanced tab which is located at the top of the page
  • Thereafter select the port forwarding link which is located at the side bar
  • Now here are the port which are ready to forward for the Xbox Live:

TCP Ports: 3074

UDP Port: 3074

If you are looking this port for the different application, you can find it by either 

  • Browsing our list of the game
  • Check out our list of games using Genre
  • See our list of all application
  • Thereafter put a check mark in the enable checkbox
  • Makeup a name to put in the name box. The name does not have any effect on the functionality of the port forward. It is simply there so you can know why it was created.
  • The computer box contains a list of devices name which are visible on your network and choose the device from the box
  • All the entries are protocol specific. If the port you are forwarding need to be forwarded using TCP Protocol. You should enter that port in the TCP section. If port forwarding is done with UDP Protocol, you should enter in the UDP Section
  • In the schedule dropdown box, you have to choose always option
  • Use the inbound filter dropdown box to pick allow all
  • When you completely finished, click on the save setting option which is on the top of the page.

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  • Published by: Moscow
  • Last Update: 28 Jul 2024

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