![]() ![]() ![]() That being said, we’re going to talk about how to do port forwarding yourself. And unless you are besties with the person configuring your router in your apartment, it’s not worth the hassle to constantly forward ports to the various devices you know will need them (your PC, Xbox, PS4, and whatever else). It’s darn near impossible to do in a dorm setup because there’s no way you’re buddy buddying up with the school’s technology department. The thing is, this is hard to set up in your house unless you’re IT savvy. You’re opening specific ports on your router so that the traffic doesn’t bottleneck in the router it is instead directed to the device of your choosing. Port forwarding tells your router that among all the devices hooked up to the router, certain instructions should go to certain devices. That means my computer is given equal visibility than my neighbor’s machine on the same network.īut what happens if, say, I am setting up a very specific FTP server with an objective to have external contacts upload files to me? What happens if I can’t fully appreciate an Xbox game because of some lagging across the network? By default, unless you are the only device hooked up to a router, no one from outside your network can reach your network, and that’s why port forwarding exists. ![]() Put it this way: when you and I move into a new house, dorm room, or apartment, chances are we’re all sharing one router or T3 line with our housemates, classmates, or apartment-mates. ![]()
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