topic Re: Port Forwarding Help in Broadband & Landline

Port Forwarding Help

Goooner1 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 17:48:00 GMT

So I’m trying to get an open Nat in my Xbox Series X.

Trying to set up port forwarding, I’ve gone into the router page, to firewall named a new port forward rule Xbox.

In the external box I put 3074 to 3074 and the same in the internal. I select UDP or whatever one you’re supposed to set it at.

So far so good, but there are other ports to be forwarded, how do I get more boxes to add the other port numbers?

There’s a plus button, but that just allows me to set up a new rule, so how do I add more ports to forward? Some TCP (?) some UDP, some both.

Re: Port Forwarding Help

XRaySpeX — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 18:06:04 GMT

It is the '+' button that stores your current rule & sets up for adding another rule that could well be for the same device but for diff ports.

Re: Port Forwarding Help

Goooner1 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 18:34:35 GMT

Thanks.

I did wonder if that was the case, but when I named the rule Xbox again the box went red, so figured I was doing something wrong.

Maybe I need to name them Xbox 3074, Xbox 80 etc…?

Re: Port Forwarding Help

XRaySpeX — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 18:37:03 GMT

It's not the rule name that should be kept the same but the device/IP Addy.

Re: Port Forwarding Help

Goooner1 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 18:59:13 GMT

Thanks.

So if I add a new rule for each port and name them something different, so long as I select the Xbox from the drop down, it’ll apply them all to the Xbox each time it’s switched on, even if the assigned I.P address gets changed?

Re: Port Forwarding Help

XRaySpeX — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 19:37:31 GMT

Yes, but you'll probably be more confident if you fix the IP of the xBox - "Always use this IP".

Notice if ports are consecutive they can be stuck in same rule.