How to Open a Port on the Green Packet

How to open a port on the Green Packet

GreenPacket routers include a very basic firewall that helps protect your home network form unwanted access from the internet. Since this firewall blocks incoming connections you may needopen a portthrough it for certain games and applications. This process of opening a port is frequently called aport forward, since you are forwarding a port from the internet to your home network.

The basic process to open a port is:

Setup astatic ip addresson either your computer or device that you want to forward a port to.
Login to your Green Packet router.
Navigate to the port forwarding section.
Click theNetworklink.
Click thePort Managementlink.
Create aport forward entry.

While these steps might seem difficult at first, we will walk you through each step for your GreenPacket router.

Step 1

It is important to setup astatic ip addressin the device that you are forwarding a port to. This ensures that your ports will remain open even after your device reboots.

Step 2

Now we are going to login to your GreenPacket router. Your router has a web interface, so you will login to it using your web browser. This can be either Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Edge. It usually does not matter which browser you choose to use.

Open up your web browser and find theaddress bar. It should look something like this:

192.168.15.1

In the picture above the address bar has 192.168.15.1 in it. Just replace all of that with the IP address of your GreenPacket router. Your router's ip address can also be referred to as your computer's default gateway.

By default, the IP address is set to:192.168.15.1

After entering the IP address of your router, you can simply press enter. If all goes well you will see the following screen:

You should see a box prompting you for your username and password.

The Default GreenPacket Router Username is:admin
The Default GreenPacket Router Password is:admin

Enter your username and password, and then click theLoginbutton to log in to your GreenPacket router.

GreenPacket Usernames and Passwords

If your username and password do not work then please visit ourDefault GreenPacket Router Passwordspage.

If you still can't login to your router because you forgot your GreenPacket router username and password, use ourHow to Reset a Router Passwordguide to set your GreenPacket router back to its factory settings.

Step 3

Now we need to find theport forwardingsection in your router. Here's how you do it. Starting from the first page in your router:

Click theNetworklink near the bottom of the page.

Click thePort Managementlink near the left of the page.

Step 4

Now we are ready to enter some data in your router. In order to show you exactly how to configure your router we need you to answer 2 questions:

(The IP Address to forward to should be the same "static ip address" that you setup above)

Our router simulator shows you exactly what data to enter in your router based on your choices above. We are currently showing the ports forXbox Live Xbox One. You should fill out the boxes in the router as you see them here:

Forward Ports 53 on the Green Packet