You may have gotten a response, but I do not recall seeing it, so will answer your question. The IP address your router is asking for is the IP address of your computer. THe whole concept of forwarding ports is to allow traffic on that port to go to a specific machine on your internal network. I like routers that allow for dhcp reservations for this reason.

On Mar 11, 2012, at 3:59 AM, Scott wrote:

> Ok, found my router and went into port forwarding.
> I went down to the first box and typed in echolink and then the 
> starting port 5198 and the ending port 5200.
> But it also wants an ip address.  Does that mean the echolink.org ip?
> I thought it might so i type from the command prompt
> tracert echolink.org, and both in win eyes nd system access the text 
> that came locked up the computer for a while and then when it was 
> finally done the echolink ip was long gone.
> Can someone please help.
> thanks
> 
> Original message:
>> I believe your address to your router is either going to be 192.168.0.1 or
>> 192.168.1.1 them are the defaults.
>> You could drop to dos
>> Cmd
>> Then do
>> Tracert google.com
>> And look at the first hop, this would be your router.
> 
>> Good luck. Defaults logns have been admin and pw of admin, user of admin and
>> pw of public
> 
>> You should be able to find this online at the net gear site.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Scott
>> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 2:35 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: echo link help please
> 
>> ok could u please let me know, as my wife ight not get around to it for a
>> long while.  Sometimes she takes longer to do stuff if, she is tired, or she
>> just doesn't.
>> t t y l
> 
>> Original message:
>>> Scott,
> 
>>> I haven't looked for a long time, however, when I looked in the past,
>>> on the Echolink site it tells you what ports to open.
> 
>>> When you find your documentation for your router,  it will tell you
>>> the address needed to access your router and the default log in name
>>> and password.
> 
>>> If you can't find your documentation, there is another way to learn
>>> the address of your router.  Let me know and I will tell you how to find
>> it.
> 
>>> 73's
> 
>>> Howard #3
> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "inside your computer" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 8:53 AM
>>> Subject: echo link help please
> 
> 
>>>> Hello.  I want to start using echolink.  I already have it installed
>>>> on my system but I have a router and need to forward some ports.  I
>>>> went to a website a while back that would do this for me for 30
>>>> bucks, but I do not have 30 bucks.smile
> 
>>>> So  can someone please Tell me?
>>>> I know first I have to type the url of the router and go into the
>>>> settings but after that I am lost.
>>>> thanks in advance.
> 
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>>>> 73's
>>>> Scott
>>>> kb0clz
> 
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>> 73's
>> Scott
>> kb0clz
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> 73's
> Scott
> kb0clz
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