Please Help Me Configure Router for FTP

Question

I have Verizon FIOS with the Actiontec MI424-WR router.  I have been studying network configuration for hours, trying to figure out how to set up a simple FTP client with FileZilla, which is supposed to be easy.  I have read the entire FileZilla FAQ and wiki, but I still can't connect to any FTP servers.  I cannot even complete FileZilla's network configuration wizard.  I use Comodo personal firewall too, but I'm pretty sure my problems are being caused by my router settings.  Can anyone walk me through how the router should be set up to allow FTP?  For starters, I need to set it to "allow outgoing connections to arbitrary remote ports," and I don't know how to do that.  :-(

Answer 1

Tech support won't help you out with this..."outside the scope of support".
Now, if you are attempting to connect to it from the computer running the FTP server or another computer in your LAN, you would use it's IP address. You can find this by going to run -> type CMD press OK, -> now type IPCONFIG in the blinking command prompt.  The IP address is going to be that computers address. so if you wanted to connect to the FTP from the same computer you can use that address AS WELL AS the prefix 'localhost'.  If you wanted a family member to connect to you from outside, you would use the WAN IP which you could find out easily from like http://whatsmyipaddress.net/
Either way should work.  Now just make sure you are port forwarding FTP, and should look like this, with the IP address being the FTP server's computer IP or just slect the 'Computer' from the list.  Then click apply!