2b. Setting Up Port Forwarding

Now that PhonePad Remote can actually connect to port 12600 on the router, we need to forward the connection to the Server or Host PC that the PhonePad 5 Server is running on.

On our Netgear router this is done by adding a new Port Forwarding Service or Inbound Firewall Rule.

In this example we select the "service" we created earlier (PhonePad5Remote), set the Action to Allow Always, enter the IP Address of the Server or Host PC, and that's about it.

Once it's been added it looks something like this: