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For the former, the AirPort Extreme would need to be an 802.11ac (tower) model to which you can connect an external USB hard drive. The AirPort Express cannot be used for this purpose. For the latter, again you would just need to use an external USB hard drive that you would share out using the AirPort Utility to configure it as such. Thanks for checking out my video and hope that you found it helpful. If you liked this video and like our channel you can find all the gear that I use and re. A combination of up to 50 Macs or Windows PCs can simultaneously share a single AirPort Extreme base station. You can set up a network with AirPort Extreme in several ways. Here’s the most common method: Connect the Ethernet cable hooked up to your cable, Verizon’s FIOS, or DSL modem to the WAN port on the base station. Here’s how to set up an AirPort Extreme Base Station: Unbox the AirPort Extreme and plug it in. There’s no on/off switch - it turns on when you plug it in. If you want to connect the AirPort Extreme to the Internet, purchase a Cat5 ethernet cable and use it to connect the AirPort Extreme to your DSL or cable modem. Plug the cable in to the.

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Your Apple AirPort Extreme router has a basic firewall included that helps protect your home network from any unwanted access to the Internet. This firewall is blocking incoming connections from the Internet. Sometimes you want these connections unblocked to run a program or game smoother. This is called a port forward because you are forwarding a port through the firewall and directing it at a device on your local home network

We will be showing you how to:

1. Setup a static IP address on the device you plan on forwarding these ports to.
2. Login to your Apple AirPort Extreme router.
3. Find the port forwarding section.
   • Click the Applications button.
   • Click the Utilities button.
   • Click the AirPort Admin Utility button.
   • Select Apple Base Station from Select Base Station.
   • Click the Port Mapping button.
   • Click the Add button.
4. Create a port forward.

While all this may sound difficult, we plan on walking you through each step in the process.

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Step 1

It is important to setup a static ip address in the device that you are forwarding a port to. This ensures that your ports will remain open even after your device reboots.

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• Or follow our Static IP Address guides to setup a static IP address.

After setting up a static ip address on your devices you need to login to your router.

Step 2

Let's login to the Apple AirPort Extreme router. To do this let's start on the following page of your Mac:

Open up the Finder on your Mac.

Then, click the Applications button in the left sidebar.

Next, select the option of Utilities in the center section of the page.

On the Utility page, choose the option of AirPort Admin Utility in the center section of the page.

You should now see a page similar to the one above. There is a list titled Select Base Station. Under that heading is your list of base stations. Select the Apple Base Station you will be making changes on. This list will only contain one station name unless you have multiple Apple Base Stations.

Step 3

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Now we need to find the port forwarding section in your router. Here's how you do it. Starting from the first page in your router:

First, click the Port Mapping option near the top of the page.

Then, click Add on the right side of the page.

You should now see a box a lot like the one above.

Step 4

Here are the ports to forward for Xbox Live:

TCP Ports:	3074
UDP Ports:	3074

If you are looking for the ports for a different application you can find it by either:

• Browsing our List of Games
• Check out our our List of Games by Genre
• See our List of all Applications

Enter the same port number to be forwarded into both the Public Port and the Private Port boxes.

Enter the IP address that you are forwarding ports to in the Private Address box. This is either the IP address of a computer or the IP address of another device on your network.

Click the Ok button when you are all done.

Click the OK button after each entry.

After you have finished entering the appropriate data, click the Update button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

Are Your Ports Forwarded?

It is always a good idea to check your work. In order to find out if the Apple AirPort Extreme router forwarded the ports correctly we recommend using our free Open Port Checker. This is found in our free trial version of the Network Configuration Tools.

More Info

Congratulations on getting your ports forwarded. Here are some other guides you may like:

• How to Port Forward Behind Two Routers.
• A guide to Understanding DHCP.
• A basic guide to using Wireshark.
• How to use uTorrent.