How Do I enable port 6881

AndrewJ · 12-05-2005, 16:22

Hiya all I am trying yes trying to use Azureus to download a few torrents from a private friends collection of mixes he does.

Now I am being told

"nat error" on testing port 6881 I am running XP Home SP2 with Avast! Home AV, and Sygate Personal Firewall and cannot suss for the life of me how to change and open this port to this program as I am admittingly new in this area.

Any help be nice and greenys loaded up for all

Graham M · 12-05-2005, 16:25

Number 1, are you behind a router? Number 2, there are far easier ways to get files between computers than BitTorrent :errr:

AndrewJ · 12-05-2005, 16:28

I prefer bittorrent as it has its other uses as well

And no I am not behind a router however I connection through my gf's laptop via ethernet cable right now.

Graham M · 12-05-2005, 16:30

IE a NAT Router using IIS? AFAIK there is no way around that, you should still be able to download anyways.

kronas · 12-05-2005, 16:32

just to note that port 6881 is blocked by most sites (tracker) so you may encounter 'port blacklisted' just type a random one in.

AndrewJ · 12-05-2005, 16:33

There is no router my friend, my girlfriends laptop ( xp home sp2 ) is connected to a SACM Ambit modem on NTL 2mb, this is into her laptop via USB, and then a Ethernet is run to my pc ( xp home sp2 ) to provide my internet.
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I can download although I have failed the test on port 6881 and I am told this can seriously affect my download rates and connectability in certain trackers and torrent file connections.

bmxbandit · 12-05-2005, 16:38

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Originally Posted by AndrewJames

I prefer bittorrent as it has its other uses as well

And no I am not behind a router however I connection through my gf's laptop via ethernet cable right now.

you need install something to forward the port on the laptop.

ive used analogx port mapper before, seems to do the trick. best not to use port 6881 btw, pick a random number between about 49000 and 65535, set this in azureus and forward that instead.
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Originally Posted by AndrewJames

I can download although I have failed the test on port 6881 and I am told this can seriously affect my download rates and connectability in certain trackers and torrent file connections.

if there's just him transferring to you, and he is connectible (and publishing the torrent himself) then it should work.

not being connectible will slow down trnafers from torrents wth many downloaders, because you have to find them (rather than them finding you too)

AndrewJ · 12-05-2005, 16:42

For the critically stupid and not wishing to mess up my Azureus downloads could you tell me where to go and click and do?

EDIT: found it

thanks for advice you think port 30000 should do trick it says all is okay on the test.

bmxbandit · 12-05-2005, 16:51

to change port in azureus:

tools menu/options
under 'connection' change 'TCP listen port' to something like 52176, or whatever...

now i think about it, the port forwarding thing in windows is probably up to the job. on the laptop, go to 'network proporties/advanced/settings'. set up the port you specified before (ie 52176) to be forwarded to the IP of your computer. if you dont know the IP, it should be under network connection status/support/details

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Originally Posted by AndrewJames

For the critically stupid and not wishing to mess up my Azureus downloads could you tell me where to go and click and do?

EDIT: found it

thanks for advice you think port 30000 should do trick it says all is okay on the test.

fair enough, if it works now ignore the above, dont touch it!

30000 will do. i cant remember exactly what the official 'free-for-all' ports are but i serously doubt that would cause a problem

Graham M · 13-05-2005, 15:27

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Originally Posted by AndrewJames

There is no router my friend, my girlfriends laptop ( xp home sp2 ) is connected to a SACM Ambit modem on NTL 2mb, this is into her laptop via USB, and then a Ethernet is run to my pc ( xp home sp2 ) to provide my internet.
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I can download although I have failed the test on port 6881 and I am told this can seriously affect my download rates and connectability in certain trackers and torrent file connections.

So using IIS then? That's a sort of software NAT firewall.