Help about port forwarding and torrent

Wen · 25-07-2006, 13:36

Hi everyone!

I've been a dial up user for a long time, and finally decided to go on broadband, and the cable was installed this morning. Everything went fine, but now I'm worrying about port forwarding, and yes, I've read the port forwarding site

The part that is confusing me is where it says that I should set a static ip for my computer, but isn't ntl dynamic ip? And what should I therefore put in the firewall page of my router as the last number of "private ip address"?

And apart from port forwarding, is there anything else I could do to improve the download speed for the torrents? At the moment, it's only 25% of the speed of my connection

MovedGoalPosts · 25-07-2006, 13:47

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Don't expect high speeds on torrents. You depend on others for what they are prepared to send you. Additionally, it can take time to get up to speed since the torrent software usually favours those who upload too.

Don't saturate your upload bandwidth though, that will just cause everything to grind to a halt.

As for IP's whatever you connect to your modem needs to have a dynamic address, not static. If you want protection use a firewall either as software on your PC, or hardware via a router, that opens up ports specific to your torrent applications.

Wen · 25-07-2006, 14:57

I already have a 3rd party firewall, and the windows firewall... so I should just disable the router firewall? Thanks for the advice and the welcome

Was a lurker before, but have to say that this board is brilliant for newbies to broadband and especially cable

Oh, and i used the cd to install the connection, but now want to uninstall the programs like broadband medic and broadjump client foundation (or is this one essential?)

MovedGoalPosts · 25-07-2006, 15:58

You don't need the ntl software, unless you have a USB connection, but now it's installed getting rid of it might not be as easy as the uninstall routines.

I'd leave the router firewall in place, that helps protect your entire network. You may need to open ports on that though to allow your torrent software to pass.

If you have third party firewall software, rely on that instead of the Windows one. Running 2 firewalls on the PC itself is bound to cause confusion somewhere. Having said that I don't bother with any PC based firewall software and just rely on my router's protection.