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Old October 16th, 2004, 06:04 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Router Port Forwarding Questions

Hey guys!


First off, I'm using a LinkSys WRT54G dual band wireless router.
I'm just now starting to forward specific ports on my router, but I want to make sure it is really as easy at it seems. For example, I use Azureus as a torrent manager (port 6881) once in a while and I wanted to make sure the port was open...is this all I need to do? I want to forward the port on my PC's IP address, not the router's IP, right?



Also, is there a good link to a site that lists specific ports so I can forward the necessary ones in advance before I run into any problems?
Are there any specific games/apps that you guys know of that I'll need to forward ports to run?

Sorry for the n00b questions...well, no I'm not. Just answer them dangit!


Many thanks in advance!
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Old October 16th, 2004, 06:11 PM     #2 (permalink)
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Yep, looks like you did it right.

Best way to find ports is to google for "TCP Ports" There are a number of sites out there with lists.
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Old October 18th, 2004, 01:31 AM     #3 (permalink)
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Thanks!

Okay...another question.

Moo and I are both connected via ethernet cable to the router. I've forwarded my port (as shown above), can I have the router forward the same port to moo's laptop as well? I tried it and I was getting little popup warnings about the port being used already.
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reading around on torrents sites i was told to forward ports 6881-6889. the port problem some torrent programs allow you to set the ports you want.

as for the speed question you asked me, the speed all depends on how many seeders there is on the torrent.

btw have you updated your firmware for your router yet?
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Aye Aye sir! Updating the firmware was the first thing I did thanks to your link.


We set the listening port manually to 6881 on BitComet, it was 12636 by default.

My speed issue: Right now on one particular file that I started last night, it has 37/127 seeds and 28/439 peers and only d/ling at 25k/s. Why so slow and why aren't there more peers connected by now? I'm on 4mb cable! Which is more important anyway, seeds or peers?

It seems that BitComet is the only one working on moo's laptop...Azureus won't open at all (black box appears for a split second, then disappears) & Bittorrent won't even connect...keeps showing connection failed. She has the latest Java goodies installed too. [shrug] They all work fine on my PC.
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