Comments on: How-To: Port Forwarding On an Airport Extreme & Time Capsule

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:04:30 +0000

THANK YOU! Finally did it, I had been trying for ages!

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:59:33 +0000

I have had a lot of experience with Netgear and Linksys routers including remote management and port forwarding.

I use both Macs and PCs and have been lured by Apple’s promise of greater ease of using Mac products and their reliability…

Individually, the MacBook Pro and iPhones work well, but I am getting NOWHERE with my 2T Time Capsule (TC) and Airport Extreme (AE) to work and configure. Even right out of the box and on the phone with Apple or in the Apple Shop, they can’t get it to work.

I am very disappointment with Apple as their instructions are very vague and limited.

What do I do now? Are there good Apple forum/support out there?

By: Eugene

Eugene — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:55:06 +0000

I have a NAS at home and want to access it through the Internet at work. What port should I use? I have already set up an address at DynDNS.org but do I need to add the port I port forwarded to the DynDNS.org address with a colon? Sorry guys & dolls. I’m a newbie. Obviously.

By: Sachin

Sachin — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:03:28 +0000

Does anybody know how to configure port forwarding with an airport extreme for Real VNC on a PC? It says I have to configure my router to forward port 5900. I have configured this in IPV6 as said above as well as under port mapping. Any help would be appreciated!

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Sachin

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:52:41 +0000

I think the reason that some are still having trouble even after correct Airport setup is because their modem is also acting as a DHCP and NAT. Therefore you have a double NAT and you need to go into your modem configuration interface and disable these features or disable them on your airport and configure them on your modem
hope it helps

By: DERRICK

DERRICK — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:04:35 +0000

you can check your ports in canyouseeme.org too.

By: Will Ashley

Will Ashley — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:18:25 +0000

I was able to set up port forwarding on my Time Capsule using these instructions with no problem, with the latest Time Capsule/Airport Extreme firmware (7.5.1)and the latest AirPort Utility (5.5.1).

However, it seems these directions are mainly useful if you’re using an IPv6 tunnel (free from Hurricane Electric – http://tunnelbroker.net – or similar) or have another way of accessing the global IPv6 network. I’m not sure how effective they would be otherwise, but could be wrong.

To set up regular old IPv4 forwarding with the current firmware and utility versions goto the Internet icon atop the AirPort Utility, then select NAT, then click the “Configure Port Mappings” button as described here:

http://must-know-mac.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-port-forward-time-capsule.html

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:24:36 +0000

Too bad it doesn’t work – now that Apple has changed the Airport interface these instructions are incorrect – have been totally unable to make port forwarding work at all on my Airport Extreme

By: dy

dy — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:03:32 +0000

I have 13 EN enabled thermostats in my house and I am using a Linksys router and a time capsule but want to have the time capsule forward 13 ports. Does anyone know how many ports the time capsule can be configured to handle? The Linskys is limited to 12 and seems to have a routing conflict with the Time capsule so I’d like to have the Time capsule try to port forward.

By: SbY

SbY — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:41:29 +0000

A little addition. In my case I entered from the drop down menu “File Sharing” and just changed the ports. Then gave a name to it “aMule” and save restart.

Be sure, that you have from the AirPort tool “Internet” menu and “NAT” section the NAT port mapping enabled.

By: SbY

SbY — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:36:53 +0000

Hey!

Atleast in the newest Time Capsule the menu is a little different. There is not tab for IPV6 Firewall. In the Advanced setting, as in the instructions as well, there is a tab called “ports index” etc (my OSX language is Finnish, the second tab from the left anyways). This is just next to “Statistics and logs” tab.

Click it and click “+” to enter a new port forward. You should enter your public TCP and UDP port (check from transmissions or aMule etc the ports) you want to forward) and private TCP and UDP. Use the same ports for BOTH.

Now, you should enter your LOCAL IP as well. I.e if your local IP is default 10.0.0.2 you should enter this. The program enters automatically i.e 10.0.0.201, so you just need to remove the last 01.

Save and restart and you are done.

By: LordThree

LordThree — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:03:24 +0000

I ran into the problem where downloading torrents was shutting down the airport and required me to unplug and replug. I’ve seen people mention that switching the OPv6 from tunnel to local solves the problem, but I’m not able to find the IPv6 menu under Airport Utility/Advanced/IPv6 – my only options are Statistics, Port Mapping, and PPP dial-in.

I’m running snow leopard, and I assume the latest airport firmware if that helps. Anyone have this same issue? I assume that the configuration must have changed under snow leopart but I don’t know where to find it.

By: Jill

Jill — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:16:29 +0000

I’m using an older G4 MacBook connected directly to Time Capsule. I followed the directions, forwarded the ports, and now I’m getting zero connectivity to uTorrent. Any suggestions?

By: Mac

Mac — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:05:26 +0000

It works!! And I did it myself..with a help from appleblog of course ;-)!

By: raumschiff

raumschiff — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:47:21 +0000

I was just able to get it to work for RemoteTap & Transmission.
My problem was double NAT which was shown as an error under the TC’s summery status (green/yellow dot).
In order to get rid of double NAT I had to set my modem to bridge mode (it used to be in PPPoE mode) and change the TC’s internet connection to PPPoE (instead of Ethernet) and enter the ISP login & password.
Ports are open now. Hope this helps.

By: laurence

laurence — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:02:06 +0000

Did this get fixed percyg23? same problem here….