‘How to open ports in a router’

Asked By Neil John 100 points N/A Posted on - 04/27/2011

I am trying to get Netflix to work on my new Visio television with built in WiFi. I am wondering if data port 80 and 443 can be opened on my router, to allow Netflix to work.

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Answered By Rey A 0 points N/A #88810

‘How to open ports in a router’

Ports can be opened by accessing the router page.

Since you will be accessing the Television's website through the router, I would suggest that you trigger the ports. Do not forward them.

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Answered By Neil John 100 points N/A #88812

‘How to open ports in a router’

I understand that you have to trigger the ports, instead of forwarding them since I will be accessing the TV's website.  

Well that makes sense. I will do it now and will come back to forums if this does not work.

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Answered By Neil John 100 points N/A #88813

‘How to open ports in a router’

I went to try triggering the ports but it did not work well for me. Any other suggestions?

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Answered By Eloisa S 0 points N/A #88814

‘How to open ports in a router’

Try doing DMZ or the Demilitarized zone. But doing this would require you to set your TV to a fixed IP, so that the port requests will be forwarded to it.

If all fail, consider upgrading the firmware of your router.

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Answered By Eloisa S 0 points N/A #88815

‘How to open ports in a router’

By the way, what is the error message on Netflix? The device is probably needing something other than simply opening the ports.

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Answered By Neil John 100 points N/A #88817

‘How to open ports in a router’

I still have to check with Netflix.

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