How to Open Ports in a Arris TG1682G Router

Open Ports in an Arris TG1682G Router:

The Arris TG1682G router is a firewall that blocks incoming connections you have not authorized and helps to protect your home network against unwanted access to the internet. You need to create an open port or more frequently called the port forward for allowing a connection through your firewall. 

The process involves-

1. Set up a static IP address on the game console on the computer you want the ports forwarded to.

2. You need to login to your ideas TG1682G router

3. Now navigate to the port forwarding section

• Select the advanced link
• Click on the port forwarding option
• Press the add service button
• To create a port forward enter data in your router.

4. Sounds difficult and confusing to you but by following the below-mentioned step you can correctly open ports in an Arris TG1682G router.

Step 1: It is essential to set up a static IP address in the device that you are forwarding a port for ensuring that your port remains open even after your device reboots. You need to log into your router after setting up a static IP address on your device.

Step 2: You can now log into the Arris TG1682G router. Routers use a web interface which means you need to log in to the router setup page using a web browser to access it. 

Browsers can be Safari, Chrome, Yahoo or any other browser you want as it doesn't make any difference what browser you choose to use. Look for the address bar after opening the web browser of your choice and replace it with the IP address of your router by erasing whatever is present in your address bar.

The Arris TG1682G router has a default IP address of 10.0.0.1. Click the enter button on your keyboard once you have entered the address of your router. It will ask for your username and password and to go any further than the first page, you need to enter the values

• The Arris TG1682G router's default username is- admin
• The Arris TG1682G router's default password is- password
• Click on the login button by simply entering the correct username and password to access more of your router setup page.

Step 3: For finding out the port forwarding section of the TG1682G router you need to follow these steps

• Firstly select the advanced option in the left sidebar
• Click the one titled port forwarding after the new set of choices appear
• Click the button labelled + add service on the right side of the page.

Step 4: Pick another in the services name drop-down box.

• For you to remember why you set up this forward, you need to put a name for this forward in the other service box. Pick something that has meaning to you while naming it as the names do not matter.
• In the server IP address box, enter the IP address you are forwarding ports to which can be either the IP address of another device on your network or the IP address of a computer.
• Enter the single port number in both the start port and the end port box if you are only forwarding a single port number but if you are forwarding a range of Port separated by a hyphen then enter the highest number of that range into the end port box and enter the lowest number of that range into the start port box.
• Click on the Save button once you have finished the process.
• Test whether your ports are open or not.

After you have completed or finished the steps do check your work whether the Arris TG1682G ports are forwarded correctly or not.