How to Set Up Port Forwarding

In this video, I show you how to configure a port forwarding rule, as well as set up a reserved local IP, on a home Wi-Fi router. To check your public IP address, simply visit This is the IP address that devices outside your network will use to connect to your server. *You may see both an IPv6 address, and an IPv4 address. For our purposes, we only need to worry about the IPv4 address. List of TCP and UDP port numbers (Wikipedia):