It’s the one thing when I’m configuring things that makes me wince because I know it will give me the business, and I know it shouldn’t, but it does, every time. I have no real idea what I’m doing, what it is, how it works, so of course I’m blindly following instructions like a monkey at a typewriter.
Please guide me into enlightenment.
Just to clarify, nothing about ports requires wifi to be involved at all. It doesn’t need to be a wifi router, a network doesn’t have to be connected via wifi.
Funfact: doesn’t even require ethernet. Any link that involves an IP will do.
Very true, I just kept saying WiFi router, because for most people’s home networks, even if their device is wired, if they have a wifi router set up, their WiFi router is usually their network firewall as well, so even if your gaming desktop was wired, you’d probably still need to open ports on your WiFi router to make something like a VPN work.
Just seemed like a needlessly confusing specific detail to include as it is not a necessity to have any wifi connectivity at all and might mislead OP/readers into assuming it has some relevance to ports. It should be sufficient to just say router unless the question involves SSIDs or related components specific to that connection method.
Agreed, I fixed it.