You can find a list of commonly used ports at the right hand side and clicking on it will instantly check the status of the selected port.
Upon visiting the website, it detects your external IP address and automatically embeds it to the remote address box for your convenience. The open port check tool by YouGetSignal is a fast and easy to use port forwarding tester. The only problem is, how do you know whether the port forwarding either manually created by you or automatically through UPnP worked? Here we have 5 web services which you can use to test if the forwarded port is open or closed.
It is also possible to configure a web server to run under a different port number such as 8080 and since the web browser connects to port 80 by default, you’ll need to instruct the web browser to visit the URL using the different port by adding the port 8080 at the end such as Įven if you are trying to host a temporary game server, connect to a CCTV, remotely access your router configurations, download media files using a BitTorrent client such as uTorrent, all of the actions mentioned above requires an open listening port for optimal usage and in some cases it won’t work at all if the port is closed.įortunately most modern routers already support UPnP whereby the router automatically opens and forwards the required port when it is triggered by the software, saving you the trouble of manually accessing your router settings to forward a port. For example, when you visit a website, your web browser automatically connects to the web server using port 80 because that is the standard port registered in the IANA organization. Every web services must run on a port or else the service will be inaccessible.