If you have a router running as part of your PC’s Internet connection setup, you may have run into some trouble when attempting to host online PC games or perform other tasks that requires ‘net ...

Port forwarding settings allow your router to "pass through" telnet traffic. Without port forwarding configurations, the router blocks telnet sessions to the hosted telnet server. Each router has its ...

Port forwarding is a solution to a problem that many gamers know all too well: You attempt to join a friend in an online match but can’t because your connection to the gaming network is limited, ...

While connecting to self-hosted services like a password manager from inside your home network is easy, being able to access ...

A static IP address gives a fixed address to your computer on the local network at your business. Port forwarding is used by computers on the Internet to connect to a specific device on your internal ...

Secure shell can overcome a number of networking deficiencies. Jack Wallen illustrates how you can use SSH port forwarding to create encrypted tunnels for remote and local forwarding. The ssh system ...

I've got a fax machine converting inbound faxes to PDFs and sending them to my email. My ISP is now blocking port 25 on their entire network, no exceptions. Port 25 is fixed in the fax firmware and ...