How to port forward and increase your download speeds

[Viper007Bond]

[edit] Here's a better link: http://www.portforward.com/ [/edit]

[Overheat]

Closest I could find on my Router Setup was this:



Can anyone help me fill it in?

[bigfoot1942]

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

Check out this tutorial:

http://p2p.weblogsinc.com/entry/0401842428674831/

Thanks to Cruzz563 for the link.

as far as i can see thats nothing but an ordinary port-forwarding procedure explained.

[Viper007Bond]

Originally Posted by bigfoot1942

as far as i can see thats nothing but an ordinary port-forwarding procedure explained.

Am I missing something? That's all it was meant to be...

[Viper007Bond]

Originally Posted by Overheat

Closest I could find on my Router Setup was this:

http://home.fairadsl.co.uk/overheat/TG/routermenu.jpg

Can anyone help me fill it in?

Well put the port on the left that you client uses, 6969 probably. Then I'd guess your local-ip:6969 in the middle box and then check the enable box.

[bigfoot1942]

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

Am I missing something? That's all it was meant to be...

ah, i thought someone discovered a mysterious new way....
btw, a very handy site for router specific guides is http://www.portforward.com/

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

Well put the port on the left that you client uses, 6969 probably. Then I'd guess your local-ip:6969 in the middle box and then check the enable box.

i refer to http://www.portforward.com/ again.
the default port for a bittorrent client is 6881 btw, not 6969 (thats the tracker's port).

[Overheat]

bah, technical networking stuff baffles me

[Viper007Bond]

Originally Posted by bigfoot1942

the default port for a bittorrent client is 6881 btw, not 6969 (thats the tracker's port).

Oh, right.

[mike_tseng]

for ABC the ports are over a range do i put that range into the port forward?

[bigfoot1942]

Originally Posted by mike_tseng

for ABC the ports are over a range do i put that range into the port forward?

depends on the router...
for some clients you only need to forward one port total, for other clients you need to forward a port for every torrent youre downloading simultaneously.
so if you forward 5 ports you can download 5 torrents at the same time max, which would only need 5 port-forwarding rules.

[jasonchiu]

interesting i will try now and then test buy downloading like a bitch

[andyhui01]

wasn't this posted ages ago?...

[jasonchiu]

mine does a auto search for a lsitenin port is this the same

[bigfoot1942]

Originally Posted by jasonchiu

mine does a auto search for a lsitenin port is this the same

your what scans for a listening port on your what?

[saab_rider]

Thanks to this post, I now have "green" connections on Azuerus for the first time!

[Raheel]

hey guys i m having trouble with this port forwarding stuff. When I run the configuration test in Azureus, I receive the following error :
NAT Error

help please

[Cruzz563]

Found this linky the other day, been meaning to post it, might be helpful
http://userpages.umbc.edu/%7Ehamilto...entconfig.html

[Raheel]

Thanks mate, I managed to resove the NAT error and have opened the ports. That site is excellent. Now can someone please tell be the best settings that I should use in Azureus.

I have a 1Mbps download and about 30 Kbps upload.

[Leppy]

I have the NAT error with Azuerus as well....

I have read those sites but understand nothing on them... how did you get it to work raheel_qamar?

[Cruzz563]

Try Bitcomet Leppy