Before now, I was convinced that the safe default was port triggering. The idea of leaving ports permanently open just felt much riskier compared to opening a port only when an app needs it. I did the ...

I am trying to get Remote Admin to work through my Netgear 624 router. There is a choice of Port Forwarding and Port Triggering. Triggering is supposed to be more "intelligent, less limited" or ...

Port forwarding is a crucial networking technique that allows you to make a computer or device on your local network accessible to the internet, bypassing the security features of your router. This is ...

A nice feature that some routers have is inside/outside port remaping/forwarding. As an example, it would allow you to have a bunch of computers all listening on port 3389 on the LAN side, while ...