[How to] Port Forward a Belkin Router.

PortForwarding a Belkin Router

So you’ve come across this blog page, why? You want to port forward…
Well here is a guide to take you step by step along with photos to show you what your looking for.

“What is a port forwarding?”

Think of a port as a door to your router that can only be opened from your side. Now what your trying to do is open that door to allow programs to talk to the world wide web or allow friends to join your computer to do gaming together.

Lets begin…

Step 1

Connect your computer or device to your modem/router via WiFi or Ethernet.

Open your browser (any browser will work)

Type into your address bar “192.168.2.1” (without the “”, www & http://)

A webpage with a Belkin logo should open up. (Image Below)

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Step 2

Down the left hand side you will see a list of links to do different things. You will need to find and click the link that says “Virtual Servers”

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Step 3

After Going through the “Virtual Servers” link you may come across a “Login” Page. This will ask for a Password. In most situations the password should be set by default to be blank. If this is incorrect some stages it may be:

– password

or

– admin

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Step 4

The next window you will be confronted with a rather strange page with loads of boxes that can have data filled in.

What you will need to do to start with is know what port you need to forward.

“What is a port?”

Think of a port as a door to your router that can only be opened from your side. and what your trying to do is open that door to allow programs to talk to the world wide web or allow friends to join computer to do gaming.

“How do you know what port to open?”

Well thats difficult but there is a way… Most developers will post in there software or website on which port is needed for what.

(Example) Minecraft is one of the most common reasons that people look to do Port Forwarding, Minecraft uses the Port 25565.

Anyway back to the page…

Your page will look like this (below)

In this photo you may see that some of the details are already filled in. Basically thats what your wanting to do.

First things first, Where it says “Description” type whatever program your wanting to assign the port to.

“Inbound Port” type the port number you wish to forward. i.e. 25565 or 100 – 1000

Type of port, Leave that as “Both” if you can

“Private IP” This is your computers IP, You will find this if you go: System Preferences > Network

“Private Port” Place the port number in there again

Hit “Apply Changes” and your router will restart and your done.

MacExpose Minecraft Server

We have our own server! Yay!

Want to join?

IP*: ……………….

*(Subject to change. Check back here for updates)

(Server states)

offline, whitelisted while underconstruction

Server is offline and will be offline for a while yet. i can’t afford to leave internet running 24/7 as-well as my computer being on.

Sorry, but maybe one day i will have something sorted.

Version …….

Description:-

This Server for Minecraft is a full encore Hard survival server. Come and fight by making yourself a new Faction, Don’t have the Command skills? Join a faction and help with there epic battle against other clans.

Free to build with plenty of party mods i.e. traders, land to buy/rent.

P.S.

Like what you see in the server? Feel free to come back to it..

This server is run from my (MacExpsoe) own computer and is using my internet usage.

Please feel free to donate if you wish to see more of this server. All donations with go towards upgrade for the server or future servers.

Donation will grant Moderator rank in game  as well (price to be consulted)

Paypal Donations here (make your own amount):

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Want to be a Moderator? Donate below, Fixed price and last for one (1) month.(Coming soon, Price to be consulted.)

[Review] Harman/Kardon Soundsticks 3 Speakers

Are you looking for some speakers for your computer? To be honest, theres loads of speakers out there, all having different features.

So how do you know what to look for?
Well basically you don’t unless if you try them before you buy them. Thats where i come in, i personality work in a electrical retail store and nearly everyday i get to play around with tech. I truly spent a lot of time hunting for some speakers that were going to good for generally use but also have the power and clarity for gaming and pod casts.

Now i have made a video on the speaker units called Soundsticks 3 by Harman/kardon but to be honest the video doesn’t justify the speakers power and quality.
Please take my word on this, these speakers are perfect for the price of £120 (ish)

Anyway, bit more about the speakers. First of all this set is a 2.1 sound system with a nice see through affect of plastic, its really nice that you can see how the electrics work on this but it also shows what little stuff is needed to make sound systems.

Each Soundstick give a total of 10w output, even for just videos or the odd bits of music these tend to give a strong kick to do the job.

My marks…?

8.5 / 10

The only reason it gets marked down is due to the fact of having a very awkward on/off button. But overall its brilliant.

[Review] Hp Touchsmart EAIO

Hi there this is Elliot here and today i have a review on a printer.
This is my own review of the HP photosmart Eaio as i currently own one. In this review I will list things like pros and cons about the product and just some other extra information.

First things first,this machine is exceedingly good value for the price of the unit, Most places have a starting price of £39, I’m not quite sure if this is just for a limited time or if they trying to rival against Kodak with there “cheap ink promise”But overall with this unit it gives you very good print quality with photos, however i would recommend with HP Photo Paper or Epsons Photo Paper (Epsons Paper because it give stronger and deeper Blacks) It does keep up with speed when it come to Black and white Text. its not like you’d expect from a Kodak when it makes a hell of a lot of noise and takes its time to give you the finished result.

Now to say this unit is wireless i personally do like to have an ethernet port on my product just to keep a closed network, but unfortunately the Hp EAIO doesn’t provide an ethernet port. Pity Really.

The front of the unit has roughly a 1.5″ screen with six small touch controls, the unit is easy to control and no-one can get confused with this model, unlike some of Hp’s higher range i just find them to overpowering. Also on the front, you have a multi card reader to print photos or documents straight off.

Pro’s:
Compact machine
All-in-one
On-board screen
Replace individual inks
Reasonable price
Wireless
ePrint
iPhone/iPad apps/Android

Con’s
Price of individual inks
Repair costs
No ethernet port

Overall, This unit is brilliant for the price, i would recommend in getting one if you strapped for cash and need a printer.

If you wish to find out more, then please leave a comment below and we’ll add the extra info into the current review.

Elliot

[How To] make a minecraft server + help

Well it seems to be that some people are having problems with setting up there own minecraft server. Im going to try and help you out with the setup and put it all in pin points for you to find things easier.

–Help with the “Start.command” file.–

Now im affraid to say that i cant make the “Start.command” file for you, this is because its your computer that has to setup the terminal file.
I.e. If i made the “Start.command” file and you downloaded it, your computer wouldn’t know what to do with it.

–My friends or i cant join the server.–

Firstly make sure that you have the following three windows open on your screen, (you cant close any of the windows. Otherwise your server will stop. You can however minimize the windows)

1st window: Port Forward (and running)
2nd window: terminal showing your server running (this is normally identical to your minecraft server GUI)
3rd window: minecraft GUI server (this is something you cant download, this will open when you double click on your “Start.command”

Now if everything is running and still cant join. On minecraft where it ask for a server IP (this will only work on the computer thats running the server) try typing :25565 or Local host
For friends give them the IP thats showing on your Port Map software or go over to whatsmyip.org and give them that address. They will also work on the main computer.

–I dont get the server GUI window on my screen.–

It means that somethings gone wrong somewhere down the line. Now heres a few things that can be done to help things out.

Firstly try redoing the whole thing again and make sure of any spelling or spaces that may be needed.

Secondly sometimes things wont work beacuse of the Start.command file. Make sure you name the file with a capital S!

–My Port Map says my router is incompatiable.–

Right…. Theres afew things here, but its difficult because everyones router is differant.

Now you may have to be an admin to your computers network or get someone to sort this out. Basicly the quickest way for me to put this, someone may have to play around with settings, but well come back to this as you can try other stuff first.

Firstly try restarting your router, there should be a button on the back of the box.
If you have an Apple airport extreme you shouldn’t need port map because airport has its own port forwarding software.

Back to the tricky bit. If your an admin of the network and get into your routers settings. You have to make sure things like UPNP (Universal Plug and Play) is enabled, then restart the router within the settings. If its still not working, try playing around with the firewalls on your mac and your router (this does take some time im affraid to say)

You can also try finding your virtual servers section also known as port forwarding sections on some routers,then punching in the ports of 25565.

One thing i did which was random and may work for some, try restarting your router from within its own settings and keep refreshing the Port Map software.

–I keep getting something about Java Scirpt.–

Means something again has gone wrong with the files with Start.command, only bit of advise. Just scrap everything and start fresh.

–How do I update my server.–

Basiclly just download the latest version of the Minecraft-server.jar from minecraft.net and replace it with you old .jar file then run your Start.command file like normal, it may take awhile to start up again because it sees it as a new server.

i can’t break blocks on my server

This is simple, its because you are still within the spawn area. The spawn area is naturally designed to protect itself from being destroyed. If you move roughly 20-30 blocks away then you will have full control again.
The other option is that you can be the OP to the server, then you can break what you want.
To become an OP on your server, open your terminal window that runs the server, then type /op “yourname” (without the quotations)

What do i give to people to join my server

Your public IP address, don’t know how to find it?

Http://www.whatsmyip.org

If people still cant join after obtaining your ip, there is then something wrong with the setup or port forwading for your server

Hope this helps, if theres anything ive missed then please let me know and ill add them to the list.

Elliot

 

 

Would you be interested?

Hey there folks its Elliot (MacExpose) just seeing that my life is now under way, i was curious to see if people would like to see a personal vlog on a new wordpress website?
If youll let me know what your thoughts are and ill be kean to read them.

Btw when im back off my honeymoon (yes im married now) i will try attend to make moree videos on a more common basis.

Elliot out..

The Crew… So far!

Well well.. The PnpOS Team has another member.

We now have the Privilege of a brilliant graphic designer called Greg (Visteck)

That now bumps us up to three members with Stuart (Windowsexpose) Elliot (MacExpose) & now of course Greg (Visteck)

Changes…

Theres also going to be a few changes to the website on how or what we post. Originally we were going to make the website only about tutorials or what we can do on the computer systems. Now we’ve made the idea come forth and we shall post basically whatever we want. Either if thats from software, Tutorial videos for different platform, Games that we’ve played together or evan the random bit of information that we like.

 

 

Play Time…

We currently play a few different types of game across all platforms. We would like to hear your views on what games to play.

The earth is turning!

Well well it looks like the earth has taken a turn for the best. I finally got to the stage that I was getting very frustrated with the past sanding galaxy s, so I sold it on to replace it with an iPhone 4.

So far I’ve had the phone for roughly one week (one week since this was posted for people that don’t understand)

This phone has made everything a hell of alot easier in every way compared to the samsung galaxy s.

I’m not just writing this because I got a new phone but also because I wanted to review the wordpress app on the iOS platform. Now personally I’ve seen a few reviews on the app store for wordpress and those people give it some really bad reviews. But what made me laugh is that a lot of the reviews are about having problem log-in to the wordpress app, now I had no problems atall. My thoughts are that the app works with no flaws in any way.

Well there you go, that my first time using the wordpress app on my iPhone

Overall view: Great application for bloggers.

Posted by Elliot

Twitter gives us a hand.

How to keep our community up to date? … Twitters the answer.

As of 26th of Febuary 2011, we decided to make our very own twitter account for our upcoming community. Twitter will help spread the news or keep people on the ball with technology. You may recall we did have a twitter account under the name of MacExpose, but we thought its time to make things abit more universal instead of being horizontal about it all.

What to join us on twitter? Sure, search us @Macexpose

We hope to see you morning bird chirping.

BETA Test for our new Site

Well, here we are again trying to make ourself a new(er) website with more features. One feature being that we have a new member of staff Windows Expose, Why not check out his profile..

Anyway more to the point weve been working hard to try getting things up and running when it comes to more post, more videos and we hope more information for you the views. We’d really appriciate to see your comments on the pages and leave us any improvements that you would like to see around the site.

For now im signing off till next time.

MacExpsoe