MTW Firewall Problems ??

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A router has two ip addresses. The one seen from WAN side, and the one seen from the LAN side. The WAN side is getting an ip address from your Internet Service Provider. Likewise the router will provide ip addresses to the computers on the LAN side. These are usually in the 192.168.0.X range where X is a number between 0 and 255. Your computer sees the router as the default gateway, and that is usually ip address 192.168.0.1. Try that address in your browser and see if you can get into the admin login of the router. The username is often "admin" without a password unless you have set a password. If you get into the admin of the router, you can set one address to be in the DMZ and you'll want to set that to the address of your machine. You can set most routers to always give your machine the same ip address using the MAC address to identify it. The MAC address is a unique hardware identifier for every network device. It's safer to use port forwarding rather than DMZ.

You can go to the website of the router manufacturer and usually find a manual in pdf format if you have lost your manual. You'll also usually find a firmware update there, but don't apply it unless you are having trouble with router features not working. If you apply a firmware update improperly, you will end up with a router that doesn't work at all.