A year or two ago I used a Netgear Prosafe router and set up the port forwarding. I have tried to do it again and for the life of me I can not make it happen. The time I was able to make it work I did a Google search, and was able to figure it out from there, I am not able to find that guide again.

I know you have to create a rule but there are LAN WAN Rules, DMZ WAN Rules and LAN DMZ Rules. Then once you have created the rule then you add a Port Triggering Rule, or maybe vice versa.

I have a few devices that I want to be able to connect to from off site, they use port 80, 21, 23 and some other ports for device specific programming. If anyone can point me in the direction of a guide or a bit of direction I would greatly appreciate it. I already have a fixed IP WAN address so that is not a concern.

Thank you for any help you can give.

Go to PortForward.com and look for the equipment AND router. It should let you know what you have to do.

Here's one guide from portforward.com (lots of advertisements for their pay services, but they cover most all makes and models if you can find the right links): [Link: portforward.com]

In brief, you:

1. Create a "Custom Service" - the Port Numbers you want to forward.
2. Port Forward that Custom Service to the LAN IP address of the device.

Those guides should work for most AV equipment: RTI uses 4110 I believe while Crestron ports are 41790; DW DVRs use 9110, etc.

But ports 21 (FTP), 23 (telnet), and 80 (regular web traffic) are (a) used by a lot of typical internet services. You DON'T want to forward those to a single computer.

The solution for devices using those common ports is to set up "Custom Services" using higher "fake" ports numbers. Eg. "Custom_FTP = 9021, Custom_Telnet = 9023, Custom_Web = 9080". Then when you enable the Port Forward for those Custom Services check the "Port Translation" box and enter the "real" port there. When you connect to those devices from the Internet, enter the "fake" port . The router will see port 9021, apply the Port Forwarding rule, and pass that connection on to the LAN computer on port 21.