How To Done Successfully Configure Belkin Router’s Firewall?
If you are looking for a reliable way to configure Belkin router’s firewall, then you need to follow the steps that are mentioned in this blog post. You can also take the help of a technical support.
The default settings for a router’s firewall are ideal for letting you access all the online content, as they are a mix of security and flexibility, but sometimes they block some services which we actually want to use such as games access to the internet or apple services such as iChat and to cope up with this kind of problem we need to manually setup router’s firewall.
Normally, Belkin Router Support manual clearly mentions that firewall is enabled by default however in older and legacy devices the same manual comes but firewall is not enabled in them so one must check if firewall is enabled.
Under the Belkin Range Support tab one can see the range as well as default firewall status of various models. Secondly we have to check for various number of ports.
How to get instant support?
If we go to www Belkin Com Support with the right syntactic schemes, which are available at www belkin com support, then they can easily download excel sheets of various ports and their numbers and it is ideal to download if we are manually configuring firewall such as in this case.
Belkin Support excel sheet is to be opened in a window and on other hand we can go to control panel> Adapter properties and then go to port lists where we have to check if upnp port is assigned correct number as in the sheet and if it is enabled. If both cases are true then we can go to the next step.
How to setup?
Routers are shipped with upnp feature disabled and to use certain services we must enable those services as Belkin Tech Support says so we must enable upnp services. If upnp ports don’t work then there are common ports which can be enabled and alternatively they can do the same task.
Secondly even if all ports are enabled and are properly working, then maybe you need a firmware update and modems and routers do not normally support auto updates so you need to go to official Belkin support website, download drivers by inserting model number given in the base of modem and then installing a firmware update which might setup firewall automatically and allow more apps to pass through it.
Actually, there is a list of certified apps firewall allows to pass through it and updating firmware means a fresher and newer list of updated apps and services is allowed to pass so this might be a solution to setting up firewall efficiently.
Resetting the router
One can also soft reset the modem and router if problem persists now but was not present in past. Just press and hold the power buttons for some seconds and lights will blink hence soft resetting the router. This is helpful if sometimes by error our settings get changed and soft resetting would do the job of restoring it to a working state. Before soft resetting it one must make a backup of all default settings in a text file so that we can compare afterwards what went wrong with firewall hence avoiding problems in future. Even after all this problem –persists we can contact technical support or if router is in warranty we can ask for replacement.