How to find out what kind of router i have?

Question

Okay so I phoned telus about a problem with Call of Duty 4 MF and they said i needed to find out port to open and in order to do that I need find out what kind router i have my router is a SIEMENS GaiasetRSE567 but what i mean is I have to find Tcp on somethingand i have no idea how to do that any ideas?

Answer 1

You need two things:

1) The manual for the router.  You should be able to get this from the Siemens web site, if you do not have one.

2) The appropriate port(s) you need to open.  This depends on the game, and possibly the server you connect to.  I am not familiar with Call of Duty, but try searching Yahoo (or Google) for "Call of Duty" router port tcp udp.  This may also be in any manuals that came with the game.  You will need to know the port number, as well as whether it uses TCP or UDP.

Log in to the router.  It should have a web interface.  Once logged in, check the router manual for where to set up port forwarding.  There should be a page in the router configuration that allows you to set this.  

Typically you be able to set the following:

Incoming port (this is the port you found in the game manual or web search)

Protocol (this will be either TCP or UDP.)(also found in the web search)

Outgoing port.  (Set this the same as the incoming port)

Destination IP address.  (This is the IP address of the computer you are using to play the game) (You can find this by opening a command prompt (winkey+r, type cmd in the run box.  When command prompt opens, type ipconfig [enter].  The IP address will be shown inthe output of the command)

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