Port Fowarding- Xbox 360

Good Afternoon,
i have read various things and attempted various different setting changes on my router but i am unsuccessful in being able to open the ports on my router to allow battlefield 3 to work on the xbox 360.
could anyone be as kind to explain to be how to set this up correctly as i am close to buying a new router as port forwarding has always been an easy task in the past on other routers. 
I have a BT homehub 3

Hi and welcome to the forum, you would be much better off setting your Xbox into DMZ from the router, this opens all the ports and solves the issue of having to set up ports individually. You can do that via the Advanced options on your home hub, navigate to port forwarding, DMZ should be underneath port forwarding and just enable on your Xbox.
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