Bit torrent through firewall -- i ve read alot but it doesn't seem to work

Which is the bandwidth of your dsl?

what do you mean with "i went to 192.168.0.1"?

192.168.0.1 is my router's address and i found that on the router's website.  i used the port fowarding and opened up the ports 6881-6899 (whcih were used in bittorrent) but it was still slow.  I am not sure of my dsl's bandwidth, where can you find out?  well i know that when downloading other things w/o using bittorrnet (such as kazaa or just something on a webpge) it often goes up to over 100 kb, kazaa probably 50 kb.

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BitTorrent seems to me to really need to not be behind a firewall, to speed up downloads...

If you have access to your router (ofter http://192.168.1.1) open it and set forwarding to forward on ports 4000-7000 on your IP and your IP alone...  6000-7000 because I don't know the exact ports to forward on. Don't forward these ports on another computer at the same time: when I do that one computer ends up with closed ports.

http://192.168.1.1-->forward ports 4000-7000

Maybe it should be ports 4444-7000 instead to avoid Blaster.

Never EVER open ports on your router unless you know what you're doing. Especially not a range of 3000!!!

BitTorrent uses ports 6881-6889 by default.

I use university connection, and can't use bittorrent at all. I read about port forwarding in different websites to solve this.  I am not using a router.  How do I setup port forwarding in windows XP to solve this problem?

Post a new question, and for sure an expert will help you.


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I can make it work with Time Warner cable and port forwarding enabled in my router.  However, if your ISP is blocking the whole 688x range of ports, then it'll be unlikely that you can use bittorrent. Try E-mule instead-- its slowwwww, but at least works.

i use bittorrent too and it runs fine on the router that we have set up.  i use zonalarm as my firewall, and i just check accept when it asks for internet permission.  if its not that then take other people's advice about routing.  good luck with this.

regarding setting your upload to the max, this isn't necessarily the best idea because it's possible that by maxing out your upload rate you'll severely limit your download rate.  It's best to set it a bit below your max.