PUREVPNPort ForwardingSamsung Smart TV Port Forwarding Guide

Forwarding Samsung smart TV ports doesn’t need to be a hassle. After all, the consumer-electronics giant, Samsung, has rolled out easy-to-use apps to control your connected devices from anywhere.

There are applications like SmartThings that allows the users to control their home devices on the Internet. For instance, they can switch devices on or off, dim their smart lights, and do much more.

However, to control devices on your home network via the internet, you need much more than an app- you need to forward ports.

In this guide, we will discuss how you can forward Samsung smart TV ports manually. Plus, we will also present a handy add-on by PureVPN that can make port forwarding more like a one-click thing for the non-techies.

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How to Forward Samsung Smart TV Ports?

Your Samsung smart TV doesn’t have any settings from where you can forward ports. Therefore, the only option left for you is to do it via your router.

In the following guide, we will discuss the steps in general, i.e., not for any specific routers. However, we do have a guide on how you can forward ports on different routers.

Prerequisites:

  • Router IP address
  • The IP address of your Samsung smart TV
  • TCP and UDP port of the service you want to run on your smart TV from a remote network

Once you have all the prerequisites, follow this guide:

  1. Enter your router IP address to open the router’s login interface
  2. Log in to the router using its credentials
  3. Go to the Port Forwarding settings
  4. Enter the Samsung smart TV IP address in the respective field
  5. Enter the TCP and UDP port of the service you want to run
  6. Restart the router to let the changes take place

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What is Port Forwarding?

You can connect to any internet-enabled device in the world as long as you know its IP address and the port on which it works. From the macro perspective, it doesn’t sound that complicated.

However, when you go into the micro details, you would learn that there’s a pretty sophisticated set of processes running in the background of things.

To understand port forwarding, you first need to know that there are two types of IPs available on a network: private and public.

Public IP is the IP address assigned by the ISP, whereas the router assigns the private IP address.

If we connect devices on the same network, the devices will communicate with each other easily via the public IP address. But, the same cannot be said about the devices that are on different networks.

Here comes port forwarding and NAT, i.e., Network Address Translation.

Apart from the IP addresses, every device or service communicates with a different service or device through a port. So, if a port is closed, the device or service won’t be able to communicate at all.

NAT, on the other hand, maps or translates the public IP address of a device with the private IP address of another device through a defined port. As a result, the devices on a different network easily connect to and communicate with each other.

Usually, the devices use TCP and UDP ports for communication.

Learn more about What is Port Forwarding and NAT Filtering

Why Should You be Interested in Port Forwarding?

Ports are often blocked by default, either by the router’s Firewall automatically or the ISP. After all, open ports can cause a security risk to the device.

Therefore, to allow incoming traffic from a known device, you would need to forward the port manually.

But, some users may think, “Why should I forward ports?

In typical circumstances, you may not need to forward ports at all manually. It is because of the UPnP process, which stands for Universal Plug and Play.

Most devices and services, such as games, use the UPnP feature that automatically handles the port forwarding process. As a result, users are able to connect to different devices on the internet easily.

But, some devices and services don’t support the UPnP feature at all. As a result, users have to forward the port manually.

You may need to forward the port because of the following reasons:

  • Connect to remote networks or devices
  • Find stable connection for the web or app service you use
  • Get around CGNAT
  • Improve speeds for browsing, downloading or uploading

Who Should Forward Port for Samsung Smart TV?

The entire concept of the connected world is to control your devices with a tap and from anywhere. And if you are not able to do that, the whole “connected” idea would be for nothing.

So, if you wish to take control of your internet-enabled TV, you need this guide. You may wonder, “What good would it make?”

Well, for starters, you can help your granny at home to watch her favorite soap without making her get off the sofa or use the smart remote, which she may not be well-familiar with.

Secondly, the TV show or movie that you are watching during your commute can easily switch to the Smart TV as soon as you reach your home and retire to your sofa.

That is all for starters. You can do much more when you learn how to forward Samsung smart TV ports. So, shall we proceed to the guide?

How PureVPN Makes Port Forwarding Less of a Hassle?

Are you not that tech-savvy to get your head around the manual process? Or, are you simply interested in a one-click solution?

If the manual process looks confusing to you, then don’t worry at all. PureVPN has a pretty handy tool for you that can help you forward Samsung smart TV ports with a click.

The only tool you need for a one-click solution is PureVPN’s Port Forwarding add-on. With this add-on in your arsenal, you can make any device work without any hassles.

With our Port Forwarding add-on, you can:

  • Open any ports on your network.
  • Block any ports on your network.
  • Block any ports except for some specific ports you define.

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