Huawei HG658 Router Port Forwarding Instructions

Your Huawei HG658 router has a firewall.

A firewall is used to help protect your home network from unwanted Internet access. The firewall blocks all but a few specific ports. If you play an online game or use an online program, you may need to open additional ports so the game or program can run as it is suppose to. Opening ports like this is typically called a port forward.

In this guide we show you how to port forward on the Huawei HG658 router. We will walk you through each of the following steps in detail:

• How to setup a static IP address on the exact device you plan on forwarding these ports to.
• How to login to the Huawei HG658 router interface.
• How to find the port forwarding section of the router.
• How to create a port forward entry.

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 guide to setup a static IP address.

Step 2

Now that the device you are forwarding the ports to has a static IP address, you need to login to the Huawei HG658 interface. To do this you need to use a web browser.

It doesn't matter which browser you decide to use. We recommend picking one you are familiar with. Some of the more common options are: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Edge, or Firefox.

After opening the desired web browser, find the address bar. You should be able to find this at the top of the page like this:

192.168.1.1

The address bar has 192.168.1.1 in it. Once you have found the address bar in the web browser you are using, enter the router's IP address in this space and press the Enter key. When looking for your router's IP address remember it is also called the router's default gateway and sometimes the router's GUI address.

If you have changed the router IP address in the past or you don't remember what you changed it to, then in order to find it you need to follow the directions on this How To Find Your Router's IP Address page.

Once you have entered the correct IP address into the address bar, click the Enter key on your keyboard. This should take you to the following page:

Enter the username and password in the correct spots. Then click the Login button.

• The Default Huawei Router Username is: admin
• The Default Huawei Router Password is: password

Note: The router username and password are NOT the same as the WiFi username and password.

Step 3

You should now be ready to find the port forwarding section of the router. To help you with this step we begin on the first page of the router:

You are now on the correct page to make a port forward entry.

Step 4

Put a dot into the Customization radio button.

Pick an available connection from the Interface dropdown box.

Use the Protocol dropdown box to select the protocol type of the ports you are forwarding.

The Remote Host box needs to be left blank.

If you are forwarding a range of ports separated by a hyphen then enter the lowest number of that range into the External Start Port box and the highest number of that range into the External End Port box. If you are only forwarding a single port number then enter that number into both the External Start Port and the External End Port boxes.

Enter the IP address to forward these ports to into the Internal Host box. If you are forwarding ports so you can run a program on a device other than your computer then you can enter your device's IP address into that box.

In the Internal Port box put the port to forward.

Put a name for this forward in the Mapping Name box so that you can remember why you set this forward up. The name does not matter so pick something that has meaning to you.

Click the Submit button when you are done.

Make sure to click the Submit button after each entry is completed.