Netgear™ Router Multiple incoming iClose-Up connections

 

 

To have multiple iClose-Up Servers (incoming connections) behind a Router you must forward a single unique port to the IP address of each iClose-Up Server machine. 

 

                   i.           Go to each iClose-Up computer that you want to receive incoming connections (be able to be iClose-Up Servers).  On each computer you will need to change iClose-Up’s port number and write down on a piece of paper that port number and what IP address that computer has.  You do this so you can later associate that new port number with its IP address in your Router. 

 

On the first iClose-Up computer double click on the red iClose-Up triangles in the lower right of your screen.  Press the Options button.  Select the Proxy tab.  First, check the box on the line Internet Connection Sharing/Proxy Servers/ Routers.  Next in the line iClose-Up Port Number for this computer you would enter a new port number (we suggest using port 50222).  Enter 50222 on the first of the computers behind the Router then press the OK button.  A message will come up telling you to restart your computer, wait; do not restart your computer yet.  Write down this number (50222) and then find the IP address of this first computer and write the IP address next to the port number (you may depending on whether you had static or dynamic IP addresses have put this IP address in yourself).  If you do not know how to find the IP address of a computer see How to Find IP Addresses.  (The IP address is probably 192.168.0.2).  Now go ahead and restart your computer.  On the next computer you would repeat the same process, double click on the red iClose-Up triangles in the lower right of your screen.  Press the Options button.  Select the Proxy tab.  First, check the box on the line Internet Connection Sharing/Proxy Servers/ Routers.  Next in the line iClose-Up Port Number for this computer you would enter the next number in sequences 50223 then press the OK button.  A message will come up telling you to restart your computer, wait; do not restart your computer yet.  Write down the port number and then find the IP address of this computer and write the IP address next to the port number.  Now go ahead and restart this computer.  On the next computer you would repeat the same process again and increasing the port number by one to 50224 and again write it down and then find the IP address of this computer and write the IP address next to the port number.  In our example here we had three computers behind the Router.  If you had more computers you would keep going increasing the port number on each of the following computers and writing the port number down next to the IP address of the computer.

 

 

                  ii.           Now the final step to have multiple iClose-Up Servers behind the Router is to configure your Router as follows. 

 

1.       Open your web browser (on a PC behind your router) and enter the address 192.168.0.1 and press Enter.

2.       Enter the router Administrator User Name (default is “admin”) and Password (default is “1234”) then click OK.

3.       Click the Advanced link.

4.       Click the Ports link.

5.       On the second line enter your starting port number (50222 in our example above), and then enter the starting port number again (50222 in our example above).  On the same line enter the last number of the four part IP address of the first computer (in our example if the IP address 192.168.0.2 we would enter 2 because 2 is the last part of the first IP address).  Therefore in our example port 50222 will be associated with IP address 192.168.0.2. 

6.       On the next line enter the next port number (50223 in our example) then enter the next port number again (50223 in our example).  On the same line enter the last number of the four part IP address of the next computer (in our example if the IP address 192.168.0.3 we would enter 3 because 3 is the last part of the first IP address).  Therefore in our example port 50223 will be associated with IP address 192.168.0.3.

7.       On the next line (if you have more than two iClose-Up computers behind your router) enter the next port number (50224 in our example) then enter the next port number again (50224 in our example).  On the same line enter the last number of the four part IP address of the next computer (in our example if the IP address 192.168.0.4 we would enter 4 because 4 is the last part of the first IP address).  Therefore in our example port 50224 will be associated with IP address 192.168.0.4.

8.       Now on the next line if you have more than three iClose-Up computers behind your router you would continue as above putting in successive Port numbers and IP addresses.

9.       When you are finished entering all the Port numbers and IP addresses for all your iClose-Up computers behind the Router you would select the Apply button then close the web browser.  You are done.  You should have incoming and outgoing iClose-Up functionality.