Connect PC to tablet through router

[dsabol]

I'm trying to connect my pc (windows 7) to an android tablet so I can communicate between them. But I'm having a hard time getting the specifics of the set up right and I don't have much network experience.

I have my the router connected over ethernet to the PC right now so I can configure it. I have the router broadcasting it's network, and the tablet is connected to it.

I can ping each device from the other, so I know they see each other on the network.

But I'm struggling trying to send "hello" from one to the other. I downloaded a tcp client to the tablet and have been trying to use putty on the pc in a telnet session. The connection is refused / fails.

I have read about needing to do port forwarding, but I'm not sure how to do that correctly. On the router I enabled port forwarding, and added to the list port range 23 for the pc's ip address. There is a place to enter the local port as well. I'm not sure if this should be 23? The protocol is specified as tcp.

On the android side, I can use a utility to scan for ports that are open, and there are 7.. but I'm not sure if I can use any of them, or if I need to open a new one.

Any help is appreciated

 

[hang-the-9]

When you say "communicate" between them, for what exactly? You should not have to do anything for opening ports, etc... in just about every case that would only be needed for going outside your local network.

 

[dsabol]

When you say "communicate" between them, for what exactly? You should not have to do anything for opening ports, etc... in just about every case that would only be needed for going outside your local network.

I need to send ascii strings back and forth between the devices. I'll have a c# program on the pc and that will send data to the tablet app and back.

So for example a drop down item is selected in the app and I need the text sent to the pc